If your medication was due on Monday what day would you order it?

[Shoot4theMoon]

My sons repeat sleeping medication is due on Monday I tried to order it today as I assumed the general rule is 48 hours for dr to approve and around the same for the Pharmacy, it was rejected for ordering to soon! My drs are closed on weekends. Did I really order too soon? If your medication was due on Monday when would you put the order through ?

A week before here. Even my dogs insulin is on 7-10 days.

I order mine 10 days in advance but I do it via an online pharmacy. It's also not anything addictive which may change things?

Speak to the Practice Manager about this. You should NOT be placed under such time pressure unnecessarily.

@Shoot4theMoon

We can order (online) 5 working days in advance here. So, if we are due for a med on say Monday 13th Feb, we would put the request in on the Monday 6th. That is the earliest we can put it in. Sometimes it's ready for the Thursday or Friday, sometimes not til the next Monday or Tuesday. Depends if the pharmacy has to order anything in.

On a side note. How and why has your son got zopiclone on repeat? Sleeping tablets like this are never on repeat, and they are very reluctant to give them out. My DH does long and varying shifts, and struggles with sleeping when the clock goes back or forward or if it's very hot. He gets no more than three sets of 14 sleeping tablets (zopiclone) per year. And they would never put them on repeat.

So I am baffled as to how and why your GP gives sleeping tablets out regularly/on repeat. That's actually pretty bad form, as they are very addictive, and you will find yourself not being able to sleep without them! They are really only meant to be administered for very short term bouts! It sounds very much like your son is already addicted if he is worried about 'running out' of sleeping tablets over the weekend!

I order mine online from my surgery a week before. Boots sometimes takes a few days to get it ready

@HeavenIsAHalfpipe

What a judgemental end to your post.

There's many conditions that cause chronic insomnia which may require these tablets. Your husband working shifts isn't in actual medical need of them, they just give him a hand in returning to a normal sleeping pattern.
OPs son could have a medical condition where he will not be able to sleep unless he has the medication.

Either way, it's nothing to do with you and for you to slate their GP as unprofessional without any other information apart from which tablet her son takes is unbelievably busy of you.

Jesus, what is it with posters on here at the minute.

You can order your meds 10 days in avance. That's when I do it

I always order a week in advance!

My pharmacy, a small Boots, takes 5 days to fill a prescription so I order a week in advance

I order online through my GP system. I have a calendar reminder for every 28 days since last request. This is about a week before I would run out. Meds are usually at pharmacy within 2/3 days.

I order mine a few days well in advance due to my work patterns. I can only collect on certain days as my other days are long and they start and finish outside of the pharmacy's hours. I also work on weekends

@HeavenIsAHalfpipe he’s always been on sleeping meds since being a baby. He was very poorly at birth and spent months in PICU (paediatric intensive care unit) when he came home he didn’t sleep, it was blamed on his routine in the hospital from being in PICU which didn’t have a bed time it was just like day time 24/7. So we hoped it to settle. It didn’t. He was tried on various sleeping meds starting on melatonin and moving to slento then heavier sedating pills as he got older but he’s only allowed certain ones twice a week and the slento every other day then the zoplicone on set days so we have various meds and alternate them. He also a sever form of autism and sever global developmental delay which is why he didn’t sleep as a baby and it’s why it didn’t settle after he came home from the hospital and it’s why he still doesn’t sleep now.

also can anyone tell me on the nhs app where it says aftwe what date I can order ? Also the pharmacy often have to order some of his medicines in as they don’t stock them but it is a big pharmacy that is open on weekends and until midnight during the week so they may count Saturday and Sunday as working days