AIBU to feel frustrated about delays treating an infected wound

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I had to chase my doctor to get the lab culture read to begin with. Then they had to get permission to give me a specialty antibiotic. Now the pharmacy can’t fill it for a day.

I know I shouldn’t be annoyed, but I’ve been told I have an infected surgical wound and it’s gross and hurts.

the topical they gave me while the culture grew has helped a little, but an oozing wound was not what I had planned for May.

Yanbu to be frustrated. The health service/industry is a massive organisation and this pushing along is always needing done by people not in any fit state to do it.

My kids are all on meds which I have in the past been hunting down across pharmacies all over the county, I can easily see a big space where people get worse across many conditions waiting or not knowing they have to actively chase things down.

Have you rang around to see if other pharmacies have it in stock? Annoying yes. But the whole country is facing similar problems.

The fact that the whole country is facing similar problems makes it worse, surely, rather than being a consolation? Why's it all so rubbish?

I have needed to take medication twice a day for the last 6 months after falling seriously ill and there’s often a delay with medicine.

Last time I was told to request the renewal medicine 48 hours in advance, so I went one better and asked 72 hours in advance of my meds running out.

They still were late and after calling yesterday to chase it, I had to go pick them up today despite feeling unwell.

thankfully my supply lasted until last night and I wasn’t traveling anywhere, so it was alright to pick it up this morning and take the first dose of the day then, otherwise I’d have been in trouble.

I had no idea things were like this. I’m just glad I called yesterday to check on it or I fear it could’ve been even more delayed.

@Clairey1986

you got to the core of it. This isn’t even the first thing I had to chase this week.

I know I could push on the pharmacy stage, but I have no fight left. I also have to be the squeaky wheel at my pharmacy all the time because of my allergies and I need to save my advocacy for times when it really matters.

I get it. I’m on an injection which I do every 4 weeks
its expensive and I’m grateful the NHS fund it for me so I can exercise and well, do anything

but every 6 months I have an appointment where I have to fill in a form about how bad my condition is - because you can’t keep taking the drug, you have to come off it to prove you still have the condition (which I’ve had for 30 years, it ain’t going away!)

then a consultant appointment where they review if my answers mean I qualify. After that they prescribe, and I chase and chase but they send the injections out. They can’t tell me what day it will turn up, and I can’t get hold of the pharmacy to tell them to send it to work or not

my consultant is sensible so I now don’t come off the drug and have to lie in my answers and say how bad my condition is without it, or they won’t fund it