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Help me write a letter to my GP (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by DisabledAceSocialist@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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As mentioned on here before, my GP surgery has reduced the amount of meds the prescribe me, not on medical grounds, but I believe on cost-saving grounds. The pharmacist in the pharmacy that is joined on to the doctor's surgery recently complained to me about the cost of my meds, and this isn;'t the first time.

The neurologist prescribed me migraine tablets and says I can take one a day as a preventative, but the doctor will only prescribe 8 a month. This is the med the pharmacist complained about - they're £12 a tablet.

Also they recently cut the amount of eczema cream and soap substitute I'm prescribed in half. Again - no medical reason for this. It's just it costs around £20 a bottle so now I'm only allowed one bottle a month instead of two.

I'm writing to the GP to ask him to reconsider, can someone help me? What should I say and how should I phrase it? Would it be going too far to mention that the pharmacist has (publicly, in front of other patients) shamed me for the amount my meds cost the country? Would it be too emotive to say "I know I'm costing the country money but I need these things"?

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[–] DisabledAceSocialist@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you for the offer but I'm on so many meds already with so many side effects i don't want to take another one. It's one of the reasons I don't want to be put on birth control.

[–] rostselmasch@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OK. I know the pain of headaches and I am taking now opiates for few months now - it is not migraine but still sometimes with a weird feeling like aura or my right eye starts to tear. Strong Headaches, migraines included, can literally disable one person for a time and it is cruel pain. I wish you the very best and sincerely hope you'll get the medicine you need. Shitty ppl behave like its their own money, if the don't want to prescribe more expensive medication.

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks. if you're getting extra symptoms like aura, then it's migraine you're having. You can even get a migraine without a headache at all, sometimes I just get the aura without the pain. You might want to see if you can try something like rizatriptan or rimegapant, as I believe taking opiates can make headaches and migraines worse if used too much.

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

You should state that in your letter's last paragraph "I would like to avoid taking birth control medication, for fear of how its side effects might interact with my fragile health and the other medication I receive".