AIBU to request double prescriptions due to Brexit?

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I am on medication which is not life saving. It enables me to continue working and parenting though as without it I have allergy symptoms that are severe enough to mean I can't function.
I have just put my repeat prescription request in, and added in the notes I would like a 60 day supply (over 2 scripts) due to potential medication shortage.
Am I being dramatic? Has anyone else felt the need to do this? I have also had to come off the pill (Microgynon) as I couldn't obtain it. I was told by the pharmacist there were supply issues due to Brexit. I will go back and ask the GP for a different pill, but my daily antihistamine isn't swapable in the same way. I am now wondering if the GP will be all at my request.

GP is unlikely to be because s/he will have heard the same request before. And s/he will probably say no, because if everyone wanted extra etc.

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I have no idea but if I were to guess I’d say that if there are shortages, they won’t be inclined to give double to anyone.

Your GP won’t do it.

All the advice I have read says to ensure you have sufficient supply of essential medication however. My next script is due 31st October (handy 🙄).

Not meaning to hijack, but can I ask the name of the antihistamine, please? For my personal future reference for my own allergies. Thank you.

I doubt they’ll give it to you. A friend had terrible thrush recently and had to fight tooth and nail at our local GP’s surgery to get a prescription for it. This has never been an issue before (we are both single parents and can’t always afford £20+ for thrush treatment). I can only assume it’s because of Brexit, I think they’re generally getting tighter on what they’re giving out.

" I have also had to come off the pill (Microgynon) as I couldn't obtain it"

Women being affected already Whod have thunk it!

@DifficultSituation19 The most expensive thrush treatment that boots sell is £13.99 for capsule and cream in one branded canesten pack. They probably also sell a generic OTC one as well for much cheaper.

Seems like a whole load of hassle to be grappling for a GP appt and then arguing for a prescription for the sake of £5 more than the prescription charge.

Use your logic- if everyone done this, even meds’ not in short supply will become in short supply. I’m on 7 meds, one I can’t stop without be very unwell, 3 control chronic pain which without I can not move. I will be admitted, if I don’t take the one, I’ve also been told that it isn’t likely to be in short supply- I still can’t get it.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/medicines-information/getting-your-medicines-if-theres-no-deal-eu-exit/

What do you THINK the NHS are going to say to a request for double amounts of a medication that isn’t lifesaving, because “Brexit”?

I’m presuming the pp who got the thrush treatment did not have to pay for their prescription. Apologies if I’m wrong.

If you are skint and have to pay £9 for a prescription and this affects your already tight budget then something else has to give. In this situation it would be worth a trip to the doctor.

I'm already having problems getting my drugs, taken a fortnight to get Omeprazole & Naproxen.

There’s been supply chain issues with naproxen for months and months.

We had this conversation at work today. I work for a shopfitting company and our buyer phoned up the stockists to see if they had plans for Brexit and stockpiling. They replied cash flow would not allow them to do that and that would expect their supplier to do this if anyone but they also won't because of cash flow. We also do not have the cashflow for it, so why would the NHS? Everybody couldn't do this.

The ccg have rules about offering more than a month's supply. IME, some GPs ignore them (I.e. put 2 month's worth on repeat) and some adhere. It tends to be the admin staff who'll process te request. Too late now but you'd have been better off telling them you're going on holiday for a fortnight or more around ordering time and please could you have an extra month.

There are problems with different drugs At different times for s number a of reasons. I think it can be all too easy to blame it in brexit. For example lacrilube has quality problems about 2 years back and couldn’t get it for a couple of months. Save thing happened begging of this year couldn’t get hold of it - it has now been discontinued. That from what I’m aware is all down to quality issues

It annoys me that I have to get my medication each month . When I said I wanted 4months worth in each prescription, as it's costing me a fortune, they told me that they couldn't do this as if they did they'd need to close the dispensary at the doctors due to lack of funding !! I pay an annual pre payment cert, so can't see how it makes any difference to them, it's just more stress on me to remember to collect it each month . Not great when it's a heart condition that I've got and I'm not supposed to get stressed !!!

@666onmyhead

You can't remember to collect your prescription every month?

Everyone else in the country manages to. Put a note on your phone to remind you when it's due.

My local pharmacy has been having supply issues for almost a year as a result of Brexit. So far they have managed to source every medication they need, but the pharmacist is spending a very great deal of time trying to get hold of various things.

She expects it to get worse once we leave the EU. Thank you, Brexiteers.

I doubt the Dr will do that. I've been told by my GP that they can only prescribe a months worth. I'm on 6 different tablets each day and an injection (I rattle and look like a pin cushion ) and have to get a repeat each month. I order a week before I need the next lot and won't get a prescription without being questioned if I go in before.

I am not bothered about crying children, but I would love a similar system if airlines flying Brits to Spain marked the seats where the stag/hens and drunken loud twats were seated.

I have inhalers on prescription for asthma and for the last year have only been able to order one at a time whereas I used to be able to order two, so always had one in reserve.

My gp has an online repeat prescription ordering system, on which you can set a reminder. My medication is packed in 28's so need to order every 4 weeks. I think the monthly restriction came in due to many people not taking their medication and wastage.

My surgery has its own chemist on site and some chemists deliver.

Ops wrong thread😑

I recently (last two weeks) collected an extra month's prescription with my usual prescription so I have a "month in hand". The GP said it was to make sure I have an uninterrupted supply "if my dosage changes" (the odds of Brexit fucking things right up is much more likely than a dosage change and I think we both know this)

This is a life saving drug where you are meant to stay with a particular brand rather than change though, and I have changed doses in the past so perhaps my GP is extra cautious.

What angers me is that this will descend into the usual Tory race to the bottom fuckwitted bollocks "well they have to prioritise things like epilepsy, people with hay fever have to be realistic, be grateful you don't have to wait even longer" which slowly slides into "you should be grateful you're getting it at all, other countries wouldn't give it to you" and "well this is reality now we haven't got the money for it, you won't die you'll just have a worse quality of life" eventually ending in "I can't believe people are so entitled as to think they can get meds for things which aren't life saving at the moment, don't they know people are really suffering, they're so selfish".

This is a grand excuse for finally finishing off the fucking fabulous NHS whilst looking all wide eyed and innocent. It sickens me. It's worked very successfully for them already, dismantling the Welfare State (even the very word welfare they managed to load with negative meaning!)

People will suffer, just like people (and children!) are hungry due to the switch to universal credit which people believed wouldn't happen. It's happening now, and the government will do the same thing here - attempt to distract at first with another pressing issue and then when people slowly become aware when it affects them or their families/friends, point out the "undeserving" section of society who are the ones ruining it for others eg people who expect thrush and hay fever meds when people are hospitalised and suffering for lack of insulin etc. The selfish bastards. Let's blame them.