While Lakeside is a spectacular place to live, having good amenities doesn’t hurt either.
Thankfully, husband and wife Justin and Keri Van Campen held the official grand opening of their Remedies Lakeside Pharmacy several weeks ago.
It’s a full-service professional pharmacy on one side, and a wonderful gift shop on the other. So, there’s a lot to the store, and a lot you could overlook.
The gift shop has all kinds of interesting items, from home décor to seasonal decorations, toys, and much more. Since they’re located right across from the boat dock, your boat cruise won’t be a bust if you forgot the sun block or suntan oil, since Remedies Lakeside has these items, too.
Unlike a chain store pharmacy, at Remedies Lakeside you get more personal service. As a customer, you even get an emergency number to call in case you need your prescription filled when the pharmacy is closed.
Yes, if you need a prescription filled after hours, just call the after-hours number and the Remedies Lakeside pharmacist will meet you there – even if it’s early in the morning.
Lakeside Remedies can fulfill any prescriptions just as any larger chain store can, and pharmacist Justin Van Campen offers a helpful information and explanation about your prescription.
But what’s more impressive about Remedies Lakeside is that it offers compounding as well – a practice that was popular in the 1800s and is slowly making a comeback.
Before mass production of pharmaceuticals and medicine, compounding was a popular method used among community pharmacists (and can be traced to ancient civilizations as well).
Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that with compounding, Lakeside Remedies pharmacy can personalize and formulate a specific medication for someone based on their particular condition, allergies and many other factors.
Compounding is essentially medicine customized for each individual patient. For example, with compounding, pharmacist Van Campen can add flavors to medicines to make them easier for kids to take. Van Campen can also use compounding to change the form of a medication, so if you’re having problems swallowing large pills, he can prepare it in liquid form.
Aside from the benefits of compounding, Remedies Lakeside also has specialty footwear, durable medical equipment (DME), and hormone testing services. And Keri Van Campen can also help you with numerous natural skincare products and find just the right gift as well.
Many of the gifts make terrific, so if you’re picking up some medicine for an ailing friend or family member, you’ll likely find just the right thing to help feel a little better as well.
Remedies Lakeside also provides pet and animal medications and compounding as well.
So if you want to fill your prescriptions closer to home, learn the benefits of compounding, and get more personalized and thorough service, look no further than Remedies Lakeside Pharmacy, located at 7100 Highway 93 S. (in the same building as Glacier Bank).