What can you do if you run out of HRT patches in Spain?
A common question from visitors and new residents is how to manage ongoing hormone replacement therapy while abroad. What options are available if someone were to run out of HRT patches in Spain, and how can they arrange a medical consultation and replacement?
If you have run out of your HRT patches in Spain, you need a prescription to get more because HRT patches are prescription-only. Prescriptions from the UK are not covered by the EU cross-border rule, so with a UK prescription you need a Spanish one. All estradiol patches sold in Spain are changed twice a week. No once-weekly estradiol patch and no combined estrogen-plus-progestogen patch is marketed in Spain. If you use one of those, the doctor decides what is suitable and may choose a different regimen, such as an estradiol patch with a separate progestogen. At the time of writing, some patch strengths have supply problems, so your product may differ. If you stop HRT, your symptoms may come back. Before restarting HRT, our doctors take a full personal and family medical history and tell you when an in-person examination is needed. Having your old packaging or prescription to hand helps our doctors see what you use. Our doctors issue a private electronic prescription through a private e-prescription platform such as REMPe only if clinically appropriate. You will receive this as a PDF by email to take to a pharmacy. More information: https://urgentdoc.eu/prescriptions/hrt-medication/spain/ and https://urgentdoc.eu/medicine-translator/