THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

Today, I went to the pharmacy where I pick up my repeat prescription of life-saving medication only to find that they not only hadn't got it but that I'd somehow dropped off their system.

After a year having my repeat script sent there, and when I last collected my script just before Christmas, and they've lorst me somehow? I'm deeply hurt, lol. Now, bearing in mind that these pills are literally all that lies between me and a coma-and-death scenario, this could have been a very bad situation.

With the equanimity of the person who has a year's worth of meds stashed, I just shrugged and said I'd speak to my GP. Expect they won't talk to you about scripts, you have to email/ visit. And allow minimum of two days for a doc to sign them and then they have to get sent to your pharmacy of choice. Which sometimes hasn't got my meds on shelf and needs to order them in; it'll be a minimum of several days before I get my script filled.

By gum, I am glad to be preptastic...........!

I only ever use the ATMs in my bank's foyer and am still very cagey about covering up the keypad. Can't get over the unwisdom of folks who get mugged in the wee smalls because they were just seen taking cash from a city centre ATM at the witching hour.

mardatha

Bloody hell GQ !!!

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Bloody hell GQ !!!

:eek: Yeah, it would have had to be a major wobbly if I couldn't get meds and I was on the edge of running out and, y'now, actually falling into a coma which is very hard for even a major hospital to bring one back from. The pharmacist's attitude was striking, all yeah whatever........... he must've known by the script that I can't live without those flipping things......... words fail me.

As I have several spare scripts, accumated over the years by careful manipulation of the prescription filling dates (I use them in sequence and have never had any go OOD, they have nearly 3 years on them) I don't need to panic.

As they say, fortune favours the prepared mind.;)

Puffinbertha

My sister has been informed that GPs in the area will no longer accept requests from pharmacists for repeat prescriptions. The patient has to make the request direct to the Practice either in person, by phone or on line. The prescription can then be collected or sent digitally to your chosen pharmacy.
Apparently this will save money. I guess some people get the same medication every time, even if it is an "as and when" needed and not daily medication, so some may be dispensed but not used.

Witless

I order online, the chemist is about 200 yds from the surgery and collects twice a day: a request between Fri pm and Mon am is processed, signed & collected by lunchtime and is available for collection anytime from 15:00 on.

I stay about a month ahead: last time I 'stockpiled' the !!!!ers changed the medication!

maryb

Our pharmacy still does repeat prescriptions but without telling us, the system has changed so they only dispense 4 weeks worth at a time instead of 8. Cue panic when DH was looking for the next packet of pills, knowing he had a new prescription just after Christmas - he didn't notice at the time because he has a dose which is between manufactured sizes so he needs to take a low dose pill and a higher dose pill, so he didn't see that the bag wasn't as full as usual

GreyQueen

Puffinbertha wrote: »

My sister has been informed that GPs in the area will no longer accept requests from pharmacists for repeat prescriptions. The patient has to make the request direct to the Practice either in person, by phone or on line. The prescription can then be collected or sent digitally to your chosen pharmacy.
Apparently this will save money. I guess some people get the same medication every time, even if it is an "as and when" needed and not daily medication, so some may be dispensed but not used.

I wonder if that's what's going on here, but it must be a new change if so and not one that's been communicated to me and they have a snail mail, an email and two phone numbers for me FGS.

My meds are daily ones, can't opt out unless I fancy what is described as great muscular prostration, coma and death. Yup, sounds lush to me, too.

I guess I might sometimes seem a bit over-prepared to some IRL but when you get stuff like this sprung on you, mockery seems a small price to pay for peace of mind.:rotfl:

Actually, at my GPs, it was about this time last year when they actively discouraged you from trotting in in person to drop your script into the box, to return two days later to collect the signed script (which may or may not have been ready) and then toddle off to the pharmacy. Nope, the new system was supposed to be clean and efficient and those repeat scripts just went off to the pharmacy and they requested the refill on the schedule you required - 6 weekly, in my case.

Puffinbertha

No word from her GP, just last time she collected meds pharmacist told her of change.

Having a supply of life sustaining medicine/prescriptions seems like perfect prepping to me.

fuddle

mardatha wrote: »

I was hauled into hospital early on Thurs morning without even my shoes. I had in my bag a half-charged mobile, a £10 note, and thank god a stash of my essential pills.
I couldn't use the hospital phones as they were fancy things requiring a card payment - as with the tv. I haven't got my card details in my head, even if my head had been working which it wasn't : I have got the family mobile numbers written in a wee notebook, but without a phone it would have been kind of hard to call them ... So new preps right now is a stash of coins to live in my bag, and I'm going to get a spare phone charger.

I still have a half arrissed hospital bag. You've given me the kick up I need.

My first hospital stay was a shock occurrence on the way home from a week holidaying in Scotland. The boot was full of dirty washing. DH tried his best and brought in a pair of unironed, tumbled dried linen trousers that were creased beyond belief and bought a cheap pair of tracksuit bottoms that shed black fluff all over the bed clothes.

mardatha

Our GP practice because it's so rural, has their own pharmacy and we just collect the meds from them. You see the doc, he writes the prescription, you wait 10 mins and they hand you it. If not in stock then you go back in a couple of days and get it.
Fuddle I'm working on a new hospital bag as we speak