Is Dotti a generic or brand-name patch?
I've only tried two different estradiol patches - Sandoz and Dotti. For me, Sandoz was a big ole NO-NO, lol. But Dotti has worked, thankfully.
But based on four different conversations I've had with four different pharmacists at three different locations (2 cvs and 1 walgreens), I am very confused about how THEY talk about DOTTI. One had never heard of it, and said she didn't think it even existed. I'd already been on it for months, but that didn't seem to convince her.
Another INSISTED it was a generic brand, but that in her experience, it (the twice a week one) was regularly out of stock. She checked if it was available at other locations, and it wasn't, she told me. Next, she shared that she had plenty of stock of the DOTTI once a week patch, but that my doc would need to update the precription before she could give it to me. I called the doctor's office to have it updated, but they'd already closed for the day, so had to wait until the next day to sort it out.
Doc office updated it first thing in the morning, thankfully. But when I went to pick it up later that same morning, I found out CVS was now out of stock of that one too! What's more, the pharmacist working that morning told me:
DOTTI was a brand name, but proceeded to call it something else entirely. Can't remember what, it sounded like gibberish. He said it multiple times. If I said DOTTI, he immediately said the gibberish word to correct me. I was confused, Im certain he was confused. We were all confused.
Also, that it turned out that the CVS inside Target, a mere 1.2 miles away, had ample availability of the twice-a-week patch, plenty of stock. So he went ahead and sent my scription over there and I was able to pick it up with no additional trouble.
For unrelated reasons, I'm needing to switch my pharmacy to Walgreens, so today I pre-emptively called the one nearest me to confirm if they had any in stock for me to pick up next week, and she started talking about some other kind of estradiol patch, the word she used was also gibberish, and not DOTTI. I asked her if that was another name for DOTTI, she said no, it was a completely different brand. I was like, ok, but what about DOTTI, and she told me the story of another customer who needed a specific brand and that all the generic brands were often out of stock and well...she did end by vaguely implying she would be able to fill a DOTTI prescription on Monday, so even though I was confused, I opted to just....believe her.
So my question is, hunghh???