Pharmacy student Seth Fricks works on a compound for a patient.  

Janis Randall attended school to become a pharmacist. Helping people was her passion, and her love of pharmacy led her to practicing pharmacy in a chain store environment.

After dedicating years of her life to studying pharmacy, Janis discovered she wanted more than the traditional pharmacists’ role.

After practicing in the chain store pharmacy for one week, she accepted a job with a major pharmaceutical company as a pharmaceutical sales representative. Sales turned out to be a better fit for Janis. Through her job, she was able to consult with physicians about patients’ medications and put her pharmacy knowledge to use.

“I loved being able to help solve problems for people,” she said. “I could talk to their doctors about their current issues and try to find ways to help them”.

Many years later, Janis left the pharmaceutical industry to put more focus on her family. She worked part-time for a small compounding pharmacy and marketed their abilities to solve problems for individual medication needs. It was during a particular sales visit that Janis found herself being drawn back into the pharmacy setting. She was meeting with a physician, and he told her about his patient who had an open wound that would not heal properly. The doctor did not know what else to do; he had been seeing her for a solid year and had tried every medication he knew.

“I knew right then, that this is what I had gone to school for,” Janis said. “I suggested a unique compounded wound care formula for the patient.”

Two weeks later, the doctor called Janis to let her know that the wound was finally healing. After a year of trying all known medications, the compounded solution ended up being the patient’s cure.

That event birthed the concept for a pharmacy dedicated solely to compounding. The end result – Compounding Solutions.

Compounding Solutions is located in Trussville and is exclusively dedicated to creating custom compounds to aid in the treatment of patients. Janis is actively involved in instilling her love of compounding in others. She is a preceptor to pharmacy students, she is on the Advisory Board for the McWhorter School of Pharmacy at Samford University, and she has taught continuing education classes to her peers.

Having been at the helm of Compounding Solutions for a full decade, Janis’ focus remains on helping others. “I am a clinician trying to run a business, and I’m not a businessman trying to run a pharmacy. My desire to help others always comes first.”

For answers to your unique medication needs, call Janis at (205) 661-2633.

After years of research on the topic, Janis Randall believes that breast cancer is caused by a surplus of estrogen (an imbalance with natural progesterone). She has concluded that there are numerous ways to decrease risk: balancing estrogen with natural progesterone, nutritious diet, exercise, testosterone supplementation, and various supplements such as Melatonin. She believes that one can reduce his or her own risk by limiting the use of oral contraceptives, lessening exposure to pesticides, avoiding electromagnetic fields (microwaves), and keeping one’s cell phone at a distance (versus on one’s person).

– Janis Randall, RPh