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User473833777 · 08/10/2020 08:46

Someone has changed my proscription to weekly ones. I didn’t find this out till I went the pharmacy on Monday. Now my doctors say that medication can’t be collected in less than five working day. It would have helped to know that as now I Will likely run out of it.i live very rural and my car is currently broken so I’m going to have to walk in the cold to pick medication up weekly.

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HilaryBriss · 08/10/2020 09:53

I'm not sure what it was changed from but can't you just ask for it to be changed back to how it was?

AriettyHomily · 08/10/2020 09:58

Who changed it? Ask to change it back or is it for something that could potentially be dangerous if you had too much of it?

DynamoKev · 08/10/2020 09:58

YANBU The whole process around my repeat prescriptions seems to be designed to waste as much time as possible whilst preventing me from getting any of the drugs I need.
I could write a book.

Oldraver · 08/10/2020 10:03

@DynamoKev

YANBU The whole process around my repeat prescriptions seems to be designed to waste as much time as possible whilst preventing me from getting any of the drugs I need. I could write a book.
Oh yes I feel this as well. For the last couple of years eveytime I go to get my prescriptions it's never ready. The pharmacy blames the surgery, the surgery blames the pharmacy

Lovely pharmacy lady once tried to get my prescription a week early (as one drug I regularily run out of) and the surgery refused it as it was early and I didn't know till I went to collect it and had to re ask for it. Many times Ive had to go down to the surgery and beg for an immediate prescription.

The only way I found round it was to miss a tablet once a week for a few months so I could catch up

DizzyPigeon · 08/10/2020 10:05

Why will you run out? Are you using more than you should?

If so, I understand why they've taken that decision.

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User473833777 · 08/10/2020 11:00

No I can’t get it changed. Well I know didn’t have full five working days to consider the request.i also don’t want to be going backwards and forwards to a chemist and gp surgery over a mile.

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JukeBoxHero · 08/10/2020 11:11

@User473833777

No I can’t get it changed. Well I know didn’t have full five working days to consider the request.i also don’t want to be going backwards and forwards to a chemist and gp surgery over a mile.
Try Echo, I switched to it 2 months ago and so far it's been brilliant. I think its run by Lloyds Pharmacy.

Feel your pain though, my GP prescribed me 200 tablets a month for years then one day I went to fetch the prescription and was handed 100. When I questioned it I was told thats how it was now and I needed to order every 2 weeks (vile receptionist). I pointed out they had doubled my prescription costs to which she replied 'well get a pre pay'.

Had to have a phone consult with the GP who immediately put it back to the 200 its always been.

I changed Dr's shortly after.

notanotherjigsawpiece · 08/10/2020 11:11

Have they given you a reason why it has been changed?

In the practice I work in, patients who receive weekly prescriptions are usually those who frequently lose their medication, have taken an overdose or those who are on a reducing schedule for certain medications.

DizzyPigeon · 08/10/2020 11:31

Over a mile? Unless you have mobility issues that you haven't mentioned (and I suspect you don't as your objection is the cold), then walking that once a week is not a big deal.

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User473833777 · 08/10/2020 11:40

Yes but I have to the trip there to the gp surgery to the put the slip in and then go and collect it another day from the chemist.

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emptyshelvesagain · 08/10/2020 11:42

@User473833777

Yes but I have to the trip there to the gp surgery to the put the slip in and then go and collect it another day from the chemist.

Well what did you do before? When did you get them before? Why will you run out?

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User473833777 · 08/10/2020 11:52

I got the fortnightly and my care worked so wasn’t as much of an issue.

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User473833777 · 08/10/2020 11:54

It’s a two mile round trip that will waste a large amount of my time.

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emptyshelvesagain · 08/10/2020 12:05

@User473833777

It’s a two mile round trip that will waste a large amount of my time.

I still don't understand why you will run out though. You are not getting less medication than before. I'm sorry you feel it's wasting your time but this is your meds for you so it's a bit of personal responsibility.

delusionsofadequacy · 08/10/2020 12:18

Ask the pharmacy to take over ordering for you? Most have a service where they deal with the go on your behalf.
You can also see if they will deliver but they might charge for that service with all the cuts being made to pharmacy funding

LastGoldenDaysOfSummer · 08/10/2020 12:27

If you are in the UK you can have meds delivered. We do.

DizzyPigeon · 08/10/2020 12:49

I have a 4.5 mile round trip to my local supermarket. Honestly, it's hardly something to get worked up about.

Most doctors surgeries and pharmacies work together, so you should see if you can miss out a step.

I still can't see how you are going to run out though. Care to explain?

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