AIBU to request double prescriptions due to Brexit?

[ThisMustBeMyDream]

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.

Paracetamol costs the NHS a huge amount of money. I think it should definitely not be prescribed (for adults) except in exceptional circumstances e.g. housebound people. I’m on it long term and it’s a right PITA and not always that cheap but I don’t see it as a hardship for the vast majority to pay for it.

jesus, and if everyone asked for double, we will run out of medication faster!

I have paracetamol on prescription - 200 a month. They help my other pain meds work better and keep me off stronger pain medication that causes severe constipation. I can also take them without food in the night, unlike other painkillers. Getting help to get up and then eat before taking medication is not an option for me at 4am when I am in agony.

Constipation can cause people to be the butt (sorry) of many jokes but it would be serious for me due to nerve damage.

I also refuse medication that costs the NHS nearly £5k twice yearly so don't feel guilty for having it on prescription. This treatment would make no difference to the pain I am in so I'd still need pain meds.

I live rurally and it would cost me a lot of physical problems due to my mobility and a lot of money to try to get to the number of shops I'd need to go to to buy paracetamol at the limited quantities shops are allowed to sell.

I'm on benefits and get free prescriptions. I would rather be healthy and pain-free and have to buy a packet of paracetamol for an occasional headache than take them as I do.

I'm also worried about other medications I take (asthma, the anti-histamine already mentioned and several others) being harder to get hold of. Every month I have slip from the pharmacy saying I'm owed something or other. I, too, believe that somewhere along the line it's all part of a plan to break up the NHS.

Agentnully
You don't have to justify yourself to me. I wish others would think before they typed.

@ThisMustBeMyDream

If that jibe was aimed at me, Some of us do think, of others as well as ourselves. I recognise my privilege in being able to afford paracetamol. I understand some people cannot but many can!

How much paracetamol do you have, agentnully? It sounds like the max allowed dose, would that be 180 tablets/month?

@ThisMustBeMyDream you can get microgynon from Superdrug online doctor. Same for fexofenadine.

ragged - I take 8 a day most days. I try to keep it as low as possible as I'm aware of liver damage. When I was first put on them the GP told me to get a liver function test annually. If I request one now I'm told it's not necessary. I'd feel a lot happier if I was given one, though.

Almost everyone I speak to says paracetamol does nothing for them but for me, it makes a huge difference. I've taken more expensive drugs that do nothing except give me shitty side effects. We're all different I suppose.

Hope you don't need them for pain but if you do I hope they work.

I was told by the pharmacist there were supply issues due to Brexit.
The pharmacist is telling porkies. We haven't actually left yet, have we? So how can Brexit be the cause if the anticipated queues at Calais haven't yet materialised?Drug shortages have been an international issue for the last five years.

Follow up:

Collected the script. They gave me the double amount - on one px charge.