I don’t know if anyone else is having a similar problem but in January, I was put on to Femara after a relapse on Tamoxifen. My experience so far is, no problem with the drug, no side effects but it is a pain in the backside trying to get it!
For the last 3 months, I’ve had to experience pharmacists phoning around other pharmacies to see if they have any in stock. This month, I handed in my prescription on Monday and went to pick it up yesterday only to find that they didn’t have any and they hadn’t tried to get some in. By then, I had actually ran out. My fault for leaving it so late maybe?!
The pharmacist suggested at one point that I take the script and drove around trying to find a pharmacy that had it (what if I didn’t drive was my first thought!). In the end, they did find a pharmacy that had some but by now, I’d run out of time as I had a hospital appointment! Ended up getting 2/3rd (20 tablets) of my prescription from Tesco yesterday evening. Aaargh!
Apparently it’s all down to the distributor. So, if anyone knows the person(s) responsible for making it so difficult to get my Femara, can you send me their name and address please? I want to go round there and have one massive rant outside their house with a loudspeaker. Grrrr!
Anne x
PS Is anyone else having these problems or is it a conspiracy to drive me round the twist once and for all?
I’ve been on Femara since Sept.2006 and never had any problem getting repeat prescription from GP/usual pharmacy.
Address and phone no. of Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd are on the leaflet 
But I’ve just done a google and I wonder if this could be relevant?
“ZURICH, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Novartis AG and Mylan Inc have agreed a deal over Mylan’s copy-cat version of Novartis’s Femara breast cancer drug, the companies said on Tuesday.
Generic drugmaker Mylan said that under the agreement it had a patent licence allowing it to market its Letrozole tablets prior to the expiry of a U.S. patent on Femara.
A spokesman for Swiss drugmaker Novartis confirmed the agreement.
Further details of the settlement remain confidential.”
Myself I am thankful for that little tablet which is keeping me alive… if it stops working for me, that is one problem, but if it is unobtainable that is very different!
Thanks Mrs Blue!
Also, am going to put in a repeat prescription next week- not risking leaving it any later.
The pharmacist is trying to work out how to get round the problem now too.
Yes, we all need to keep taking our tablets! ‘They’ must realise they are on dangerous territory messing with me because I may go ever so slightly mad, let alone anything else 
Anne,
I’ve had the same problem twice now. First time around I blamed the pharmacy (backwater rural area so little choice in pharmacies)
When it happened the second time I kicked up a fuss in the shop and they halved a supply for another patient so I wouldn’t be without.
I also told them I would be taking this little tablet for the next five years(hopefully( and could they make sure this didn’t happen again. Since then no problems.
Trish