Prepping for Brexit thread

unrecordings

I'm not getting into the who's going to die soonest argument (but let me assure you that getting hold of paracetamol is the least of my problems) so let's change the subject eh ?

ivyleaf

unrecordings wrote: »

Interesting, was that recent ?

Since about a year ago or so, I think. There are a lot of OTC meds they won't let the GPs prescribe any more. This is fine as long as you can afford to buy them, though can be a pain with meds that can only be bought OTC as an expensive branded product in a small packet.

Suffolksue

I wasn’t trying t get into a “race” unrecording ( I love your last line) just trying to say how we/I am finding things .

fuddle

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/medicines/why-cant-i-get-prescription-over-counter-medicine/ a bit more on the OTC issue. There are many meds that can't be accessed via prescription now but if a patient needs similar, something stronger, something different they can still be prescribed hayfever medicine etc.

[Deleted User]

Perhaps I could have said that life will be very different and that everyone will have difficulties and vexations and there WILL be shortages in all areas of life and some people will inevitably die as a result of all of it. There will be civil upheavals and life will be far more uncertain than the norm now and only the most dominant will survive and it will be rule of the streets not of the law. But that sounds like a disaster movie plot and I will not scaremonger because unlike those of us who do have a crystal ball I have no idea how things will be if Brexit ever happens. Whatever happens, and whatever anyone else choses or is forced to do I will make life as good as I can with what is available because I will work and make do and be as creative as I possibly can with what is to hand. I will not give in before it happens!

fuddle

Well if it gets to the levels that this thread fears it will then I'll be dying too. I should have died in 2016 and then again in 2017 so...

I too need meds to stay well but I have as much positivity as I can muster and Brexit can't really do anything to me that hasn't already happened and that I haven't already recovered from.

Some people have experienced and just don't fear the same stuff as others. I fear crowded spaces, bumping into estranged family, mucking up being a parent and so many other psychological issues to do with my past experiences but I don't fear the future set about by politics because I've faced with my own hardship in many different ways already. Life will deliver it's own blows much harsher than politicians, in my experience.

I understand why there is so much fear for what Brexit could bring to families but however bad it gets the only thing that will get you out of it is the strength of positivity. Without that ability a low person sinks further and further.

Rose tinted glasses might be offensive to those who are genuinely worried about their futures but if I may suggest a bit of a thought I'd ask people to think about what a person has been through to be able to think like that. It's not a personality trait, it's a skill born out of necessity.

unrecordings

Suffolksue wrote: »

I wasn’t trying t get into a “race” unrecording ( I love your last line) just trying to say how we/I am finding things .

All good then I was feeling an argument coming on and as MSE penalises you for defending yourself if someone escalates things I didn't have the energy to try to explain (typing isn't so easy & so called accessibility aids can have me typing a couple of sentences in caps before I notice

And you know, my experience of the NHS is somewhat different to yours, I've seen the disconnected nature of it all first hand. I guess it's different trust from trust and condition to condition. That's not knocking the NHS as a whole, its just maybe venting fustration at the way it's become some unfixable human Jenga

Anyway, all my best to Mr Sue hope he's not a pain in the neck (Mrs Un is my carer, and yes I can be a pain)

unrecordings

fuddle wrote: »

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/medicines/why-cant-i-get-prescription-over-counter-medicine/ a bit more on the OTC issue. There are many meds that can't be accessed via prescription now but if a patient needs similar, something stronger, something different they can still be prescribed hayfever medicine etc.

Thanks Fuddle & Ivyleaf. I thinkI fall under 'exceptions' on that link. To put it in context, I have Cetirizine, an anti-histamine (Allocan I think is the cheapest OTC probably about a fifth the price of he same thing branded as an OTC hayfever remedy. The Cetirizine mitigates any (minor) allergic reaction to chemo, like skin rashes. I also have paracetamol for first line pain relief if I need it. Maximum dose is 8 tablets a day, so if I need the maximum dose and it works, then I need a lot of paracetamol which is cheap but a pain to get hold of in bulk. If the paracetamol doesn't work, then I go to prescribed Co-Codamol at OTC doses initially etc. So the devil is in the detail: If the condition is a long term one or is caused by other prescribed medicine, then that OTC stuff may be prescribable. Again, interesting...

unrecordings

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Perhaps I could have said that life will be very different and that everyone will have difficulties and vexations and there WILL be shortages in all areas of life and some people will inevitably die as a result of all of it. There will be civil upheavals and life will be far more uncertain than the norm now and only the most dominant will survive and it will be rule of the streets not of the law. But that sounds like a disaster movie plot and I will not scaremonger because unlike those of us who do have a crystal ball I have no idea how things will be if Brexit ever happens. Whatever happens, and whatever anyone else choses or is forced to do I will make life as good as I can with what is available because I will work and make do and be as creative as I possibly can with what is to hand. I will not give in before it happens!

Or 'just keep breathing' as I say

I'm looking forward to that Mad Max bit you mentioned, so long as it's not Mad Max III

cuddlymarm

Hi guys
Now that Boris has a majority I’m feeling more than a little unsettled because it ( as I can see) gives him a licence to do what he wants. Are we just going to get more austerity and what sort of Brexit is he and his merry gang going to go for? I have no clue and definitely no control so all I can do is stock up, cut my debts down as much as possible and plod on until it becomes clearer. I believe in democracy and the majority have spoken so will just have to make the best of it but we Brits tend to just get on with it and maybe it’s time we changed this. Our MPs are there to serve their constituents so perhaps they need telling about it when we are unhappy with treatment that is substandard or too complicated.( Please note that I know a lot of people working in the public sector that try their very best in very difficult situations to give the best service they can)
It’s going to be a whole new world out there so perhaps it is time to change and make our MPs listen and fight our corner, After all that is why they were voted in.
Anyway I’ll jump off my soapbox and into my bed now
Nightie night guys
Cuddles