Custom creams, capsules, and flavored oral liquids for people, kids, and pets. Prescribed by your provider, prepared by our compounding pharmacy in Mount Juliet.
Prescription compounding is the preparation of a medication by a licensed pharmacist to fit one patient’s prescription. The pharmacist combines, adjusts, or reformulates ingredients to produce a strength, dosage form, or formulation that no commercially manufactured product offers.
Compounding is one of the oldest parts of pharmacy practice, and it is still routine: a prescriber writes what a patient needs, and a pharmacist prepares it. What compounding is not is a replacement for a commercial medication that already works. When an FDA-approved product fits, that is the one to take. Compounding exists for the cases where commercial medication does not fit, a strength no manufacturer makes, an inactive ingredient a patient reacts to, or a child who cannot swallow a capsule.
Every compound we prepare is non-sterile, made for a single patient, and dispensed only against a written prescription.
Compounding is for patients the standard bottle doesn’t fit. Most people do fine with commercially manufactured medication. If you’re one of the people who doesn’t, here’s where compounding helps.
Reacting to a dye, filler, gluten, or lactose in your medication? We can prepare it without the ingredient causing the problem.
Your prescriber wants a dose no manufacturer produces. We prepare the exact strength written on your prescription.
Capsules and tablets aren't the only option. Many medications can be prepared as a liquid, cream, or troche instead.
When a medication is unavailable or has been pulled from production, compounding is often the way to keep treatment going.
A prescription only works if it's actually taken. We flavor liquids so children and adults will finish the course.
Working from your veterinarian's prescription, we prepare medications in forms and flavors animals accept.
Three core forms, prepared to your prescription. Every compound is non-sterile and made for one patient, from one prescription. These are the forms we prepare most often.
Useful when a prescriber wants to treat an area directly or when an oral version isn't tolerated. Prepared in the base and strength specified on your prescription.
Custom-strength capsules, including formulations without common dyes and fillers. A practical option when the commercial dose is wrong for you or the inactive ingredients are the problem.
Liquids for anyone who can't take a solid dose: infants, young children, older adults, and patients recovering from surgery. Flavoring is available on request.
Three areas make up the bulk of our compounding work. Every one of them starts with a prescription from your provider.
Custom topical preparations for the skin conditions your dermatologist or primary provider is treating. Combination formulas, alternate strengths, and preparations that leave out an irritating ingredient.
Getting a dose into a child is half the prescription. We prepare pediatric-friendly liquids and add flavoring so the medication is easier to give and easier to finish.
Working from your veterinarian's written prescription, we prepare medications in strengths and forms suited to your animal: flavored liquids, small-dose capsules, and topicals for cats, dogs, and other non-food-producing animals. See pet and animal compounding.
Faith & Healing Pharmacy prepares custom creams and gels in Mount Juliet to the exact prescription your dermatologist or provider writes. Your prescriber chooses the active ingredient, the strength, the base and the directions, and our pharmacist makes the preparation to match.
That covers three things. A strength no manufacturer makes can be prepared exactly, including combination formulas with more than one active ingredient. The base can be a cream, which blends oil and water and spreads easily, or a gel, a lighter base that is usually clear and dries quickly. And a dye or filler you react to can be left out where the formula allows.
Each cream or gel is non-sterile, made to order for one patient, and labeled with your name, the strength, your prescriber’s directions and a beyond-use date. Storage depends on the formula, so follow the label, and the pharmacist can explain how to apply and store it when you collect it.
When a medicine is made only as a tablet or capsule, a liquid can be the practical alternative for anyone who can’t swallow a solid dose, including infants, young children, older adults and patients recovering from surgery. We prepare two kinds of liquid in Mount Juliet.
An oral suspension is a liquid in which the medicine is spread evenly through a base rather than dissolved, so the bottle is shaken before each use. A flavored liquid is prepared in a liquid base with flavoring added to cover a bitter or unpleasant taste. Flavoring changes how a medicine tastes, not how it works or how strong it is, and not every flavor suits every medicine, so ask us which will work with your prescription.
A liquid can be measured in small, precise amounts, so it can match a strength that no tablet does. Each bottle is labeled with storage directions and the last date to use it.
Most children’s medicines come in set strengths, forms and flavors, and those work well for most children. When one doesn’t fit, your child’s doctor can prescribe a compounded version, and our pharmacist prepares it for that one child.
Three changes make a medicine easier to give. A tablet can become a liquid for a child who can’t swallow it. A bitter taste can be covered with flavoring. And because many children’s medicines are prescribed by weight, the doctor can write a strength no product on the shelf matches, which we prepare exactly, so you measure the amount on the label instead of splitting tablets. As your child grows, the doctor may write a new strength, and we prepare each new prescription to match.
When you collect the medicine, the pharmacist can show you how to measure it and answer your questions before you leave, and you speak with the same pharmacist every time you call.
Commercial medicines carry inactive ingredients alongside the active medicine, and some patients react to one of them. That can include a dye, a filler, a preservative, gluten or lactose. Tell us which ingredient caused the problem, and our pharmacist will review the formula with your prescriber and, where the formula allows, prepare it without that ingredient.
We can do this for capsules, creams, gels and liquids, and your prescriber still decides the active ingredient and strength. Every preparation is made to order for one patient from a written prescription, and labeled with your name, the strength, your prescriber’s directions and a beyond-use date.
See how this works for custom creams and gels and for children’s medicines.
Faith & Healing Pharmacy compounds low dose naltrexone (LDN) in Mount Juliet to your prescriber’s specification. We prepare it only against a written, patient-specific prescription, the same way we prepare every compound on this page.
Made to the strength your prescriber writes. Your prescriber decides the strength and dosage form, and our pharmacist prepares exactly what is written. Maryam Fikry, PharmD, our pharmacist of record, prepares and checks the compounded prescriptions that come through here, including LDN. If anything on the prescription needs clarifying, we contact your prescriber directly before we start, so you are not left relaying questions between offices.
Non-sterile and made in-house. Like every compound we make, LDN is a non-sterile preparation, made at our Mount Juliet pharmacy for one patient from one prescription and documented to USP <795>, the standard for non-sterile compounding. We do not compound sterile injectables. If you react to a particular dye or filler, tell us and we will review the formula with your prescriber.
How to bring us an LDN prescription. Ask your prescriber to send it to Faith & Healing Pharmacy by phone, fax or e-prescription, or call us on 615-583-7575 if you have questions first. Once the prescription arrives, our pharmacist calls you to confirm the details and the price before we prepare anything, since insurance often does not cover compounded medications. Most compounds are ready within a few business days, and we give you a ready-by time on that call.
Yes, in most cases, and prescription transfers are free. Call 615-583-7575 with your name, date of birth and current pharmacy, and our team contacts that pharmacy for you. Before your first fill here, our pharmacist confirms the strength and price with you.
Yes. Once your LDN has been prepared and checked, we deliver it free to homes and workplaces within 30 miles of our Mount Juliet pharmacy, Monday through Friday. You can also collect it in store or use curbside pickup during pharmacy hours.
Four steps, from prescription to pickup. Most non-sterile compounds are ready within a few business days.
Your provider sends the prescription. By phone, fax, or e-prescribe.
We call you. A pharmacist confirms the details. And what it will cost before we prepare it.
We prepare it. Made to order, in-house.
Compounding is a pharmacy practice with real standards behind it. Here’s what governs ours.
Independent, local, and small enough that you’ll speak to the same people every time. Beyond compounding, we also handle prescription refills, medication synchronization and vaccines at the same counter.
You talk to a pharmacist. Not a queue, not a call center.
You talk to a pharmacist. Not a queue, not a call center.
You talk to a pharmacist. Not a queue, not a call center.
Locally owned in Mount Juliet. Your prescription is prepared here, not shipped in.
A call to check the medication is working for you.
We coordinate with your provider. Directly, so you're not the middleman.
Maryam Fikry, PharmD, is the pharmacist of record at Faith & Healing Pharmacy and the pharmacist who prepares and checks the compounded prescriptions that come through here. She is licensed by the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy.
Every compound she prepares is non-sterile, made for one patient from one prescription, and documented to USP <795>, the compendial standard for non-sterile preparation, which sets how a compound is made, labeled, and assigned a beyond-use date.
She works directly with prescribers in Mount Juliet, Hermitage, Lebanon, and across Wilson County: confirming a strength before she prepares it, suggesting a different form when a patient can’t take what was written, and calling afterward to find out whether it worked. The pharmacist who compounds your prescription is the pharmacist who answers when you call about it.
Yes, always. Federal law requires a valid, patient-specific prescription from a licensed provider for every compounded medication. Your physician, dermatologist, or veterinarian can send it to us directly by phone, fax, or e-prescription.
Sometimes, but often not. Coverage varies widely by plan and by ingredient, and many compounded prescriptions are paid out of pocket. Call us with your prescription details, and we'll tell you what it costs before we prepare anything, no surprises at pickup.
Most non-sterile compounds are ready within a few business days. The timeline depends on the formula and whether we have the ingredients on hand. We'll give you a specific ready-by time when we call to confirm your prescription, and we recommend making refill requests a few days before you run out.
Yes. Flavoring is one of the most common requests we get, for children and animals alike. For pets, we work from your veterinarian's prescription and can prepare flavored liquids, small-dose capsules, or topicals suited to your animal.
No. Compounded preparations are not reviewed or approved by the FDA for safety or effectiveness before they're dispensed, because each one is prepared for an individual patient rather than mass-produced. They are prepared under state pharmacy law and USP standards, and the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy licenses and inspects us.
Often, yes. If you react to an inactive ingredient, a dye, a filler, a preservative, gluten, or lactose, a compounded version can frequently be prepared without it. Tell us which ingredient caused the problem, and we'll review the formula with your prescriber.
No. Faith & Healing Pharmacy prepares non-sterile compounds only: creams, gels, capsules and oral liquids. We do not compound sterile injectables, so a prescription for a sterile preparation needs to go to a pharmacy licensed for sterile compounding.
Often, yes, as long as your prescriber writes a prescription for it and the ingredients are available. Compounding is often how treatment continues when a commercial product is unavailable or pulled from production. Call 615-583-7575 with the medication name and we will tell you whether we can prepare it.
Call 615-583-7575, use our online refill form or ask at the counter, ideally a few days before you run out. Because each compound is made to order, that gives us time to prepare it. If no refills remain, we contact your prescriber for a new authorization at no charge.
Have a compounded prescription or a question about whether compounding could help? Call us and speak to a pharmacist – no phone tree, no hold music.
