Repeat prescription v's buying over the counter (Asprin).

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I'm pregant and have been advised to take 75mg of asprin daily until 36 weeks by my consultant. Have been given the initial prescription of 30 tablets and have been told to get the repeat prescription from the GP surgery by phoning up the receptionist.

Just checked online now and you can buy this level of asprin over the counter for about £1 for 100.

Is there any reason of going to the fuss of getting a repeat prescription from the surgery when I can just go to the pharmacy and buy it easily when out in town.

Will it show up on my file and confuse them if I do this IYSWIM?

Just go to pharmacy. Lots of people do this and it never causes problems (I'm a GP receptionist)

Thank you fox's brush, glad that it won't be a problem. (Sorry, I thought I'd put it in chat not AIBU).

Just buy it without the prescription but if I were you I would take the prescription with you. I have had an interrogation from the pharmacist when buying it alongside pregnacare vits (am not even pregnant yet but taking both on the advice of my consultant). I would anticipate you getting worse if you look visibly pregnant. Showing them that it is prescribed should help.

Thanks eurochick.

It's not really worth my effort going to get the slip from the GP when it's so cheap to buy. I thought it was a specialist dose that could only be prescribed but saw today that you can buy it OTC. Perhaps I'll get my DH to buy them.

That would probably be easier! I've taken to picking mine up in the supermarket to avoid the interrogation and having to explain with a shopful of nosy feckers listening that I am taking it on the advice of my consultant and the reasons why.

(It's just on the shelf of my local supermarket, so you can just throw it in your basket without having to approach the pharmacy itself)

Thanks eurochick - I'll go to the supermarket and buy them there. That's even better.

My pharmacy are good that if it was cheaper to buy they would offer me the cheaper option but in Scotland they are prescriptions are free and mine are usually things you can't buy over the counter.

Thanks groovee, am in Wales, so similar prescription set up I think. I think I'll just buy them though to save having to go to the surgery and pharmacist etc.

Are you sure you can buy 75mg of shelf? I thought it was only 300mg? Check you are picking up the right dose :)

Tesco sell 75md aspirin

and 75 mg

Morrisons sell them as well (75mg)

Thanks all, picked them up from the asda pharmacy counter yesterday (think it was about £1 for 100ish). Pharmacist asked if I'd taken them before, and I said that I had been prescribed them, but didn't want to faff with the GP and the prescription and she sold them to me with no problems.

Boots and Waitrose both had 75mg on the shop shelves Mrscoob (I'm sure other places do too, but those are the shops I use).

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