Preparedness for when

siegemode

As with both legal and illegal drug use and I include both booze and ciggies of all types, it is often peoples inability to cope with life and the need to escape from that leads them down a particular route. I believe that our system and society is partly to blame for the number of people seeking to escape with the help of what ever substance the can get. Certain illegal things are much more effective than pharma drugs but would if made legal damage profits and be difficult to tax and regulate cultivation. The ptb then misinform and demonise the use of these natural substances sending users underground and pushing up prices and the desperate resort to crime. I we as a society were more open, understanding and caring then I'm sure the number of junkies out there would be far less.

ArthriticOldThing

I wouldn't have such an immediate response to lack of meds as you GQ, but the arthritis would soon mean I was unable to move without severe pain and without my diabetes meds my insulin levels would floor me pretty damn quick. Add to that no gluten free flour etc and I'm doomed, 'doomed I tell ye!':rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


My surgery will not let anyone build up a supply - meds can be ordered only once a month and only one months supply will be issued.

jk0

siegemode wrote: »

I think most people just think of the consequence of the junkies not being able to get their fix and that's frightening enough, but I think that most people underestimate the possible consequence of ordinary folk not being able to get their usual prescription meds.
It was OH who said this morning "can you imagine 1000s going through withdrawal if the shtf" ? My reply was I don't want to it's too much for me to think about. It's hard for me coping right now and such a test on our relationship at times and we could have months of this and eye problems ahead of us. I'm strong, but it's certainly testing.
I think most people are unaware of just how many out there rely on prescription meds for sleeping issues, depression, complex mental health issues and more. If a virus hits the country hard it won't just be the junkies going mad and feral, but ordinary folk too.

Your mum is spot on they only mask the problem and leave it in the to be dealt with later part of the brain. Pills are too easy and profitable for the health service professionals and the big pharma and the system makes me angry beyond measure.

Siegemode,

If it's not private, may we know what drug it is that is causing eye trouble?

My sister is on Lithium, for her mental state. It has calmed her down, and made her a much nicer person. However, I do wonder what the long term effects of this may be.

carlislelass

we`re also only allowed 1 month supply of meds

GreyQueen

My lovely GP is a proper slacker when it comes to signing off on your script, even his receptionists rag him on the subject. It can easy take 9 days from putting the request in to getting the tabs, esp as the pharmacy has to order them specially, so I have a minimum of one day from putting the script to them before getting it filled.

Sooo, I can't run right up to the wire at any time. I did find that my tabs have a BB 2+ years hence and that by filling the script exactly when I was allowed to, I could gradually build up a surplus.

I maintain careful rotations so as not to waste even one of them, but sleep a little easier at night for knowing I could live for several months without a functioning pharmacy. After that, all bets would be off.

Friend and neighbour SuperGran was struck down suddenly by artritus a couple of years ago, ended up barely able to walk and was in a lot of pain. She's been on some different meds these past months and is much improved, but they require monitoring by a weekly blood test. She'd be a poor way without them, bless her fierce heart.

Meds aren't an unalloyed blessing but they have made many lives more comfortable than agonising, and sustained productive and happy lives where death would have been the certain outcome. For reasons not even a world-famous teaching hospital has managed to unravel, my body is critically malfunctioning. A condition so rare it has a sentence of discription rather than a name. I asked my specialist how many people in the UK had the same thing, thinking to hear something on the line of a number per 100,000 or million. What I got was a I've read a case study but I've never seen anyone with it before.

Actually, I think it should be called the Ooooo, that's interesting! Disorder as that's the usual reaction from nurses and doctors who see my medical notes. I do feel that I let the side down a bit when they raise their heads to look at me and I look perfectly normal and healthy.:p

Ellidee

*Wondering* if GQ is really a vampire ! :rotfl:

GreyQueen

Ellidee wrote: »

*Wondering* if GQ is really a vampire ! :rotfl:

Nah, that's too common. Besides, I garden in broad daylight and have witnesses to prove it.

And I am eating a stewed Bramley atm, most un-vampire like fruit. Now, if it had been a blood orange, mwah ha ha!!!!!!!!!

tessasmum

We did what GQ describes with my late husband's medication - by getting it renewed each month exactly as soon as we were allowed, we built up a little stash of it. Being heart transplant medication we knew that we couldn't afford to run out of it, and one particular kind was sometimes hard to get hold of: when I went to pick the meds up, I would be told, "Oh, we can't get hold of any of that at the moment, we'll try to have some later in the week!" No good if you need it NOW and so I would be despatched with a prescription to go round all the chemists in the nearby towns to see who had any in stock. Hated to be put in that situation and it worried my husband terribly. Unfortunately, since he died in July, I now find myself with an embarrassingly large supply of stuff and I am taking it back to the surgery a little bagful at a time and hoping they don't pass comment on how much we had got! I would still do the same again in the situation because when someone you love's life is in the balance, you do whatever it takes to keep them as safe as you can.

GreyQueen

(((((((tessasmum))))))) I'm so sorry for your recent bereavement.

Yes, I think when the meds are life-critical, like his and mine and people with similar needs, there ought to be a bit more commonsense applied to prescription renewal intervals. My meds aren't costly, in fact the whole prescription costs under £1 a go, but they're not commonly-stocked as not many people take them, hence the pharmacy not having them on shelf, despite having me as a customer for years.

I'm smart and extremely interested in surviving even with a peculiar disorder, but if a person was careless and didn't manage things properly, it could go very badly indeed; I've been at death's door before I was properly diagnosed and treated and I don't want to be there again.

What was it Woody Allen said? I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. :cool:

Mind you, he also said I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Which made me PMSL, as I think I attended the same institution.

:mad: Raising a tea mug to 'fond' memories of Mr-throw-chairs-across-the-classroom, Mr-I can-hit-a-third-former-at-10-yards-with-a-board-rubber * and Miss-run-out-of-the-room-screaming.**

* Some people have had chalk thrown at them by schoolteachers. Chalk was too wussy for our maths teacher. He preferred those heavy wooden backed blackboard erasers. You really don't want one of those upside the head.

** Poor woman was more sinned against than sinning.

As a result, I retain excellent relexes in terms of dodging randomly hurled items, which has served me well on a number of occasions IRL and may be especially relevent if SHTF. A grammar school education in the 1970s.......you have to pay good money for that kind of experience in the 21st century.

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

I asked my specialist how many people in the UK had the same thing, thinking to hear something on the line of a number per 100,000 or million. What I got was a I've read a case study but I've never seen anyone with it before.

Actually, I think it should be called the Ooooo, that's interesting! Disorder as that's the usual reaction from nurses and doctors who see my medical notes. I do feel that I let the side down a bit when they raise their heads to look at me and I look perfectly normal and healthy.:p

I have one of those to GQ. Luckily I don't have the medication issue as they found a fairly mundane solution in the end. My consultant did point out there was no point in using Dr. Google as any material about my condition available online was irrelevant due to my age, and prognosis and treatment are completely different.

Four years, half a dozen or so ops, some nasty medication and a LOT of lying around wondering who stole my brain and I'm finally fixed. If TSHTF my current treatment, which is due to be replaced in a year, could last me 5 years if all goes well. But after that, who knows. And as it's provided via a device, rather than tablets (and is replaced under GA) I can't really stock up :cool: