Prescription qiestion

gazpacho_uk

I might soonfind out, next appointment with GP is now next Tues !

rotoguys

gazpacho_uk wrote: »

Not sure if this is the right section for my question. Due to financial restraints and my ability to manage my cronic pain, i have failed to use my last four monthly medical prescriptions. I have however still gone to see my GP who has continued to issue the prescriptions. I have not collected any meds conected with these prescritions, but felt that i didnt want to stop them in case i need them or can afford them in the future. My question is, will my GP know that i have not collected the meds which these prescriptions are associated with. I do not inted to try and use these prescriptions, i jst dont want to lose the facilityand option to have the meds in the future

It all depends if the chemist has a computer link with the GP.

I am the opposite, I always collect my drugs but some, I never take (yes I know I should, but I hate some of the side effects - Statins and some of my blood thinners).

As far as the GP knows and the records at the chemist will back it up, I would appear to be taking everything I am told to take.
I have to remember from the last script when I last ordered them to put in the repeat.

Every few months I have a bonfire to get rid of them!

Fortunately I don't have to pay due to age and am exempt as I am also a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic.

Richie-from-the-Boro

rotoguys wrote: »

It all depends if the chemist has a computer link with the GP.

I am the opposite, I always collect my drugs but some, I never take (yes I know I should, but I hate some of the side effects - Statins and some of my blood thinners).

As far as the GP knows and the records at the chemist will back it up, I would appear to be taking everything I am told to take.
I have to remember from the last script when I last ordered them to put in the repeat.

Every few months I have a bonfire to get rid of them!

Fortunately I don't have to pay due to age and am exempt as I am also a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic.

Someone .. .. the taxpayer is paying for these drugs. Two parties in the thread claim chronic conditions and clearly both state they don't use / need the level of prescribed drugs yet continue to abuse the NHS / taxpayers of the United Kingdom.

Each of the two offer a different [STRIKE]un[/STRIKE]reasonable excuse for this. I see no justification whatsoever for this. I'm sure it is the case here that 'rotoguys' & 'gazpacho_uk' would never do such a thing .. .. but .. .. one other reason for an unused prescription would be a contrived building of a paper trail of drugs used to perpetuate a claim for additional benefits for a medical condition that (1) does not exist, or (2) exists but is not chronic enough to need the additional medication in order to continue claiming additional financial benefit income they are not entitled to.

gazpacho_uk

woodbine wrote: »

i dont see how a gp would know tbh,i suspect they dont have the time or the inclination to find out
BUT it is in YOUR best interest to tell the gp you havent been taking the meds for 4 months

This is what i hope. They havnt said anything over the past four scrips, so fingers crossed they wont know i have not collected the meds. As of the next script, i will be paying DD and using the ppc option

rotoguys

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Someone .. .. the taxpayer is paying for these drugs. Two parties in the thread claim chronic conditions and clearly both state they don't use / need the level of prescribed drugs yet continue to abuse the NHS / taxpayers of the United Kingdom.

Each of the two offer a different [STRIKE]un[/STRIKE]reasonable excuse for this. I see no justification whatsoever for this. I'm sure it is the case here that 'rotoguys' & 'gazpacho_uk' would never do such a thing .. .. but .. .. one other reason for an unused prescription would be a contrived building of a paper trail of drugs used to perpetuate a claim for additional benefits for a medical condition that (1) does not exist, or (2) exists but is not chronic enough to need the additional medication in order to continue claiming additional financial benefit income they are not entitled to.

I don't know about gaz, but I am NOT building up any contrived medical condition. All of my conditions have been verified by my GP and consultants. If it was the case, would I purposefully put myself through gruelling operations to claim a benefit?

The last time I was in hospital it was touch and go if they could save my right leg. Luckily, they did, but it left it in such a state that they not only destroyed the nerves to the lower leg but left it with a permanent limp. The left leg is on it's way out now, and acnnot walk more than 10 metres without having to stop because of pain caused by the lack of blood flow.
I won't go into the other many problems that I have, but I can assure you that they are completely genuine!

Savvy_Sue

But why pick up prescriptions which other taxpayers are funding when you presumably feel you don't NEED that level of prescription?

I was shocked after my Dad died at the number of carrier bags of drugs I had to take back to the chemist for destruction. SUCH a waste.

HOWMUCH

QuackQuackOops wrote: »

Yes, the surgery will know if your prescription has been used or not.

This is incorrect, your surgery will not know if the prescription has been dispensed.
I have over 20 years experience in this field.

In years to come when electronic prescribing is in place then that may be different.

QuackQuackOops

All you people who dont take the meds you are prescribed, do you realise that you could be risking your life?
Lets say you collapse while out, get sent to the hospital for treatment. You are unconscious. They look on your medical notes and see that you have xyz drugs and so decide not to give another drug because of side effects. It was a drug that may have helped you.
Even the opposite can be true. You can be given certain drugs because you have other drugs in your system (or so your notes say).

Dont think "it wont ever happen". It does. Its a dangerous game to play.

QuackQuackOops

HOWMUCH wrote: »

This is incorrect, your surgery will not know if the prescription has been dispensed.
I have over 20 years experience in this field.

In years to come when electronic prescribing is in place then that may be different.

Yes they do know.

OP. You ought not pick up drugs that you do not use anyway. Its a waste of taxpayers money for one.

Richie-from-the-Boro

rotoguys wrote: »

I don't know about gaz, but I am NOT building up any contrived medical condition. All of my conditions have been verified by my GP and consultants. If it was the case, would I purposefully put myself through gruelling operations to claim a benefit?

The last time I was in hospital it was touch and go if they could save my right leg. Luckily, they did, but it left it in such a state that they not only destroyed the nerves to the lower leg but left it with a permanent limp. The left leg is on it's way out now, and can not walk more than 10 metres without having to stop because of pain caused by the lack of blood flow.
I won't go into the other many problems that I have, but I can assure you that they are completely genuine!

I see that you have responded to my second point / paragraph, thank you for that. I'm sure it an was an oversight on your part, a non~deliberate omission.

Nevertheless the fact that you did elect not to respond to my first point confuses me - I'm sure a man of your moral standing would never selectively ignore my first much more important first point / paragraph.

Would you care to speak to my first point, these issues of (1) your disgraceful moral indifference in that the taxpayer is paying for the drugs you wilfully destroy by burning and (2) the chronic conditions you claim you have may not be of the chronic level you claim because you do not need the prescribed treatment, and that (3) by not adjusting your prescription with your GP you continue to abuse the NHS and the good taxpayers of the United Kingdom ?