Glycopyrrolate cream is available in UK

Pinker

Some of you might have seen some old articles about glycopyrrolate cream being used for facial sweating, or to be rubbed in the hands etc.. I had read about one person having this made up by a derm.. but I heard nothing else from it. Well now I know it is available in the UK.

I exchanged some emails with a rep from Nova Laboratories, from whom you might remember you can get glycopyrrolate solution from for iontophoresis, and here's what they said (the first question I asked them about the availability of glycopyrrolate in oral form).

Pinker · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject:

My doctor has ordered the 0.5% cream.. should recieve it some time next week.

The available strengths are 0.5% to 3.0%.

0.5% is 10 times stronger than the 0.05% glycopyrrolate solution I have from them so I have high hopes for this cream..

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Jezza · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject:

That's good news.

Actually I am in luck as well (well, given the circumstances), as the hospital called and said they were prepared to treat my HH with botox for hands and feet. Apparently there was another guy that went to the hospital about the same time with the same request and they granted that, so I'll go there in a little over two weeks for my feet (had injections in my hands about 4 weeks ago).

I'm not getting my hopes up too high yet though since it seems with HH you never know, but at least this seems like an opening.

Still, I really hope the glyco cream works, since HH should be banned from the world and I could also use it myself (if it's available in my country that is) for some other body parts as well as some small areas of hands and feet that the botox doesn't touch (although it helps greatly, there's always some small areas that still sweat, fi, the sides of the fingers.)

I do have a question though, how do you apply it? Just like a regular cream or before ionto? I still have my ionto device, but it would be easier if you don't have to use that (and applicable for more body parts).

Meanwhile I'm hating this new Axe commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6APoLaF9v4c ... Twisted Evil

Pinker · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:

http://www.esfbchannel.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27005#27005

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Jezza · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject:

Strange that the label says 0.05.

I doubt it's a typo, since that would be kind of careless by the makers and I don't think they would make those mistakes.

Than again, if it works, the less strong the solution the better I guess.

What is the structure of the cream though? And how do you apply it? With or without ionto?

I'm anxious to find out what kind of results you get, since I have high hopes for this product, in theory it could just work this one, and with the topical apllication the side-effects are probably significantly less.

Fingers crossed.

Pinker · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject:

I got an email back from him;

Zoot · Newbie User Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Posts: 10

I'm not sure if it's polite to post an email that was sent to you personally and in good faith on a public forum. Tha guy sure is gonna get a lot of junk mail!

Forgive me for my impertinence if you have gained his permission.

Jezza · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:

Well, it's not like it is his personal emailaddress nor does it concern a personal matter...

Given the content and subject of this forum I doubt there will be that much junkmail, apart from some orders maybe. In fact maybe they're even glad with the free publicity...

10% seems like a lot by the way.

Pinker · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

Yeah I might take his email off there I guess. Though it is for people on here to use. You can get hold of it on Nova's website anyway.

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Zoot · Newbie User Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Posts: 10

Jezza, spammers (and scammers) will do ANYTHING to get email addresses - haven't you heard of screenscrapers?!

And Pinker, I am grateful for the effort you put into your informative posts. It was through reading one of your messages that I found out about glycopyrrolate being available in the UK (about 15 years ago it had to be imported in from Europe and I was even turned away by my dermatology dept. once because their supply had run out!)

In fact I spoke to someone at Nova Labs as I was concerned that my GP wouldn't prescribe me the solution and I'd have to go private - they told me that 100ml of the stongest formulation of glyco cream would cost £400!