To feel terrified after reading the prepping for Brexit threads? Part 2

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Scared by the prepping threads?

Should we be scared?

Do you have reassurance to offer?

Heinz or Branston?

:( can you see your gp for a "lost" packet?

@SinkGirl - do you do anything different re prescription when you go on holiday or are otherwise away from home?

Bugger. The cat's kidney medication is manufactured in Germany, and his lovely vet is from Poland.

I might try and stockpile an extra month of his drug, because I doubt cat medication will be high on anybody's priority list except the vets.

For us, I'm not going to worry too much. We normally have a good stock of tins in, and this has declined a little over the past year (nerdy point - my kitchen has some HUGE cupboards but with appalling access, so we tend to buy week to week what we need to fill and empty the small, accessible cupboard).

I'd like to have a week of good eating or two weeks of shit eating in store, but then that was norm before I moved to this stupid kitchen. Just a habit acquired from my mum, who lives six miles from the nearest shop, who in the lawless post-Brexit world, will probably become a kingpin black market supplier of flour and sugar.

I asked for my prescription a week early last year to go on holiday. They refused on the basis that I would have enough until a couple of days after I got back.i was concerned about it being stolen / lost / spilled and being in another country. Not sure what I would have done had that happened.

@SinkGirl can you get a /afford a private prescription?

Vanilla - love hummus, too poor for the organic expensive stuff here though so if I'm going to have to start stockpiling it it might have to be the cheaper stuff Not so fussed about olives, will leave them for everyone else to fight over. Quinoa, though, you say? Now that may be worth a few extra bags...

Genuine question - I need work done on my house. Do I get it done now (while there are still plumbers and builders) or wait until next year/2020 to see if the prices come down?

@VanillaSugar - if it needs doing, I would get it done. Things are unlikely to become cheaper.

Ps I'm fucking listening
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Blimey, then I get accused of being repetitive - only because you're stuck on repeat mode so we start up again. Made it perfectly clear when answering earlier you don't care. You even said you don't want answering and you don't care. Again, nice try.

Pretty sure that’s a no go - they’d just think I’m a junkie. Took years and years to get it in the first place.

I'm sorry @SinkGirl . I've only got two ideas - buy some privately and (what I'm trying to do) encourage people who don't need much help to sort themselves out and get the hell out of the way of people who do need extra help if things are tricky.
If I think of something more useful, I will suggest it to you.

So now we're encouraging people to stockpile and get round prescription drug rules? No expert but pretty sure there's laws in place for that. Controlled drugs are just that. Controlled.

@rainbowsandsmiles - having had a pile of morphine in mum's house after Dad died that no one in the NHS seemed to want - I had to dump it on their desk - I don't think you know as much about it as you imagine.

Do you mind sharing what the medication is sink? Wonder if we can reassure that it is UK made or whether shortages have been addressed at all already?

I said "private prescription " or did you miss that. It still needs a GP to approve it.

Telling people that they should be keeping back a few tins of tuna etc - fairly harmless. Discussing stockpiling drugs - bit more serious. That's why they have a prescription. Especially if it's as hard to get hold of OP said. Must be that hard for a reason. Straying into dangerous advice now.

So what would you do @rainbowsandsmiles ? Private medicine exists. The doctors are still bound by a code of ethics and subject to the same sanctions. It's an alternative that may or may not be helpful.

Anybody who doesn't think it is sensible to have a buffer of important medication (if possible), clearly has no experience of severe issues and doing without important medication.

Apparently its now anti trade to be concerned about the sale of the nhs.

@SinkGirl

I'd go to see my MP if I were you and wanting concrete evidence why and how you will still get your medication don't be dismissed with assurances that It'll be fine based on absolutely nothing of any substance. Take written reports and evidence with you to back up your concerns and ask specific questions about how issues will be tackled. Don't be fobbed off.

Also, write to the health secretary [email protected]

If fact anybody with concerns about supply of medication should be going to see their MP demanding answers after all, they got us into this mess.

Jesus not again.

Seasawride - I'm going to take wine making lessons, so I can go foraging for elderflower and stuff when we all forest dwellers. Can I interest you in a vat or three of it? Might come in handy to knock ourselves out into oblivion with. What with shitty skies falling in and stuff, might as well.

Anybody know if asthma medication will be affected?

Hi there everyone,

We're going to move this thread over to Brexit shortly, as we think it'd be more appropriate there.