Maida Pharmacy

I know people who think well of Maida pharmacy, but my experience there was horrible. I had been using Armour thyroid (natural desiccated pig thyroid), for several years, and preferred it to Synthroid and other T4 only forms of thyroid supplementation. A few years ago Armour became difficult to obtain, and also changed its formulation, which meant that I and many others sought out a compounded form of thyroid similar to Armour. I was practically out of of the medication when I went to Maida to order it, so I placed the order even though they refused to give me even a ballpark price at the time. When I went to pick it up, I was told the price was $ 150 for a one month (30 capsule) supply. I paid what they charged because I wasn’t sure I would be able to find another supplier before I ran out. When I started calling around, I found three places in the Greater Boston area that charged much lower prices, but ultimately I chose to use a more distant pharmacy that had a particularly high recommendation from a compounding pharmacy that didn’t make thyroid extract (and that charged even less money for each prescription).

Best compounding pharmacy!
This place gives you wonderful service and a truly personal touch.
The pharmacists are professional yet personable, and truly go out of their way to be helpful.

They may be good at compounding; they certainly survive on it.
If you need to send a multipage fax, that is one service NOT to go to them for, even though they advertise «public fax». They’ve don’t know how to send more than one page per call, or how to set up outgoing faxes while incoming are in progress. I wound up paying ‘em $ 12 just to take my pages back and go somewhere else.

This is one of the last real neighborhood drugstores, just down the street from yet another soulless CVS. Little wooden drawers and shelves behind the counter, a pay-​to-​weigh scale, your grandmother’s radio music quietly playing, 1950’s prices. The lead pharmacist (and owner) and his small staff are consummate professionals, and the wonderful woman behind the counter always remembers my name! Much smaller and less well-​stocked than the chain stores, Mr. Maida still has a troupe of loyal customers (including myself). Don’t miss this opportunity to experience things the way they were before the franchises.

The pharmacist here was so great! My partner needed crutches for a sprained ankle and they sold us wooden ones, which are apparently not as trendy as the aluminum ones, at a major discount and well less than half the price that local chain drugstores were charging for the cheapest crutches. He gave us some advice about how to care for the sprain, including that we should go to a chain drugstore to buy the best ankle brace because they didn’t have it in stock. That says a lot about an unbiased opinion. I found a nice Mother’s Day card and a hilarious birthday card that looked a little dated (in a kitschy kind of way). I don’t remember ever getting such attention at a pharmacy. Their specialty is compounding custom prescriptions, so if you’re looking for that then you’re in luck.