Ds2 vomiting and fever overnight. His legs feel wobbly and his skin is tender to touch.
I've been giving him little sips of water, but thought he might be more comfortable with some paracetamol suppositories. I wouldn't put Calpol suspension near him as he'd refuse and then if forced, would barf it up.
Just been on the phone to the tight arse duty doc, who "wouldn't be concerned about the fever, just keep his fluids up". I agreed politely and pressed the request by telling him how I thought he would be more comfortable as he has the sore skin flu-like thing.
"Well, maybe look at giving him some Calpol when the vomiting stops".
I didn't phone for advice, as I work for NHS and can "manage" an illness like this, but I accepted what he said politely.
Fuck off Doc! Those suppositories are £20 for a tub of ten. He was being tight, wasn't he?
I have asked a friend to go and buy us some now, but I do feel like ringing the surgery back and insisting.
We are not hard up, more like the "squeezed middle" the press loves to go on about, but really? We pay fucking thousands in tax and NI each year. I know I am a bad Socialist for feeling like that, but that is unnecessarily tight . It's not as if I was asking for a £3 bottle of Calpol FFS.
AIBU to feel like this?
AIBU?
I've just been fobbed off, haven't I?/Tight Dr
BobblyGussets · 03/05/2013 10:58
This is my first "proper" AIBU, so line up and get your steel toe caps on 
(you know you can do mass crossings out now, don't you NotTreadingGrapes? you only need the dashes at the beginning and end of a whole line )
I have had stuff prescribed over the phone, so that's a moot point.
If suppositories are available over the counter, along with calpol and ibuprofen, you could argue, why have them on prescription at all? What about expensive IVF drugs? No-one wants to pay for them, but some people have to and some don't.
I was onto the suppository idea because a nice doctor suggested them for DS1 many years ago when he had a vomiting bug, saying, "they are really expensive over the counter, because demand is so low, so I'll prescribe him 20". I was expecting that kind of attidue I suppose.
I have not "self diagnosed" anything 
. One would normally treat a fever.
OP I have exactly the same problem with my son. He is 2 and a meds refuser, he's been forces fed horrific meds since he was 5 months old so he has the art of refusal spectacularly weighed off.
I feel your pain.
When a doctor refuses suppositories I ask another if I literally dont have £26 for the pot.
The last time I got some, I did have the money, I went to buy some and the pharmacist refused to give them to me. which did me a favour I suppose because I ended up with a prescription.
Too late, but thanks Wheresmy, I just ordered 10 for £19.17 from LLoyds Pharmacy and feel more grateful to them than the GP and the NHS. Lloyds are delivering it quite quickly as well, this afternoon.
I used to be really pro-nhs, but it is so worn down. I work in a part of it where I see so much waste, from lots of people demanding ambulances for convenience, to "consultation meetings" to change policy, then change back again. We are being told some staff are being made redundant with site closures, then next month, woops, no they aren't...
I had a procedure done at an "NHS Treatment centre" last year. This was a private company, and although I couldn't fault the facilities, staff and results themselves, I felt uneasy. I thought, "what's the difference to going private?" £20 is a drop in the ocean: hardly anyone uses them and if they did, the price would be alot lower.
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