Do any of you unashamedly have any beauty iteams that you acquire through prescription

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I swear by Epiderm which I 'need' for my two little daughters, and also happens to work Wonders on hard feet and horsey hands overnight. Wanted to check I'm not the only one......!

Glad to hear the NHS is funding your beauty regime.

Yep, good use of taxpayers money there.

I continued to get a repeat for retin A when I stopped getting spots and started getting wrinkles. Have private healthcare insurance and pay NIC (justifies, justifies!)

I learned on MN this week that sudocrem is a fantastic primer for under your foundation, so I rooted out DS's 3 year old pot and used it. They were right, so I shall continue to use it :o
I also use his E45 cream as a moisturiser.

There was a proposal, some years back, to remove dermatolgy items from prescriptions full stop due to the perceived abuse of the system. It was overturned because it would put patients who really need access to these lotions and potions to great disadvantage.

Technically items issued on prescription are for the person it is prescribed for - if you are claiming these solely for your own purpose I would be very wary as the nhs could class it as fraud sorry.

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Good grief is this hot weather affecting everyone?

Carry on op, if you are sorting out your own foot problems you are not seeing the NHS podiatrists at a cost of £60 per treatment.

I wish everyone was as proactive as this.

I use DS1's emollient cream - he had it on prescription and I use the left over stuff. Forget the name, but like E45 and very good.

Waste not want not, no point chucking it out cos it doesn't have my name on it, and he no longer needs it.

DD suffers from very dry skin. It took ages to find something that really worked so I used some of the prescription creams to finish them rather than chucking them in the bin. Having said that none of these made it to my list of favourite freebees"

I think there's a difference between using leftover cream, MummyPocPoc, and fraudulently cashing in a prescription for your own use. The OP said she "needed" it for her daughters. I 'm presuming, rightly or wrongly, that the inverted commas mean that her daughters don't need it, and she's only getting it for herself.

I acquire Cetraben for personal use but not through the NHS, I wouldn't do that.

Zineryt for my chin. For 40 my skin is good and I spend a fortune on skincare and non-surgical procedures, but I do have a reactive, pale skin so don't do peels etc. Got fed up of 3 stubborn spots so went to the Dr, feeling a bit of a drama queen, and asked for it. Got it with no questions. Have to say it is brilliant and as a bonus has got rid of my early rosacea. I don't use it everyday but am on repeat prescription. Don't feel guilty one bit - not draining the NHS by being a morbidly obese smoker - just a bit spotty.

Retin A works for wrinkles ??? Really ?

I jump in my sons bath water when he has his bath oil in :) it work a treat but then its second hand as my son gets in first so we are NOT drainning the NHS :)
I sometimes buy it when I have forgotton to put the repeat prescription in.

I repeat unashamedly - I dont smoke don't drink if you want to start talking about draining the nhs and rarely visit our wonderful gp. It is he who happily agrees my daughters are fine to keep stock of the product . Plus I have flip flop worthy feet so there. Enjoy x

tbh when dh runs out of his (shop bought) cream I dont object to him pinching a little bit of mine but i would be pretty miffed if he started using it all the time. The end of a tub that I could'nt use anymore that would only be thrown away then I have no problem with him using up.

I do come from a bias though - I remember when you could only get certain creams/oils on prescription (oilatum, E45 etc and thats going back some years) - it was like gold dust. These days most stuff is available over the counter (and sometimes is cheaper than a prescription) but if you find it really works for you why not just ask the GP to prescribe it for you directly?

I have a GP record an arm lengths long showing a history of skin problems on it - I would'nt want that showing up on my dc's record inaccurately for anything in the world.