GP when on holiday?

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I hurt my back last week, have been having physio for it, and have been prescribed naproxen and diazepam. It's improved a lot, but I'm still in so much pain that I cannot do anything for more than 20mins or so, before I have to change position or go for a rest. It's debilitating. If I continue taking the diazepam as prescribed (3 x 5mg daily) it will run out on Thursday. Friday we are going on holiday and have a 5h drive to get there. I'm dreading it. What do I if I'm still in pain while we're away? We're staying in England.

Erm, can you not just get your GP to write you a script before you go?

You get seen as a temporary resident at a local Dr. But it would be more sensible to get sufficient supplies from your own GP before you go surely

Ask for a repeat prescription? You don't have to fill it unless you need it.

GP said she wouldn't give me more than 5 days of diazepam because it is addictive. 'Come back if it's not better.' My worry is what if the long drive flares it up badly? I'd hoped to be a lot better by now!

I will try for an appointment tomorrow, but it's not easy to get one.

I've got a month of naproxen, so no worries there.

I can see any local GP on holiday? I don't need to go to Minor Injuries or some such clinic?

Back to your GP before you go. I'm a GP and someone turning up as a temp patient asking for diazepam is a massive red flag.

I imagine it would be!

Even if I bring my existing meds, all together in their labelled dispensing cartons, so that they have evidence to back up the history I give them?

wheredoesallthetimego - agreed but also common sense must prevail.

I ask for a stat dose of diazepam every three years at the same time I book my smear as I am a "difficult patient" and the involuntary contraction cannot be managed any other way (all manner of non pharmacological approaches have tried without success). I do this more for the sake of not wasting the FP nurse's time. There is no way in tarnation I am going to cancel my own session to accommodate a GP appointment for something that is so bloody obvious.

Just a personal gripe (can you tell I'm due a smear?).

highinthrsky, I don't see the connection.

I was referring to the caution with which benzodiazepines are issued for legitimate reasons. Getting a single dose is hard enough, repeat scripts are carefully monitored as misuse or misappropriation is a constant concern.

All because GPs were once lackadaisical about prescribing them. We have a generation of great-grandmothers that still can't function without their little blue pills three times a day.

Maybe you should be rethinking the holiday.....