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I'm so exhausted by how difficult it is to get medical care in the UK. One recurring issue is the fact that my prescriptions are always wrong, missing items, wrong doses, etc. I spend my entire life dealing with this nonsense, always having to go back and try to get their mistakes fixed. It got so bad I contacted my local MP and asked him to intervene. I don't know whether he did or not but last week I got a letter from the surgery asking me to come in to discuss my prescriptions. After going down there and dealing with their disorganisation and nonsense multiple times I finally managed to get an appointment to discuss this with an actual GP this afternoon. I am going to ask him to put all of my meds in the correct quantities on the screen, delete the ones I don't use any more and from now on prescribe me three months worth so i don't have to deal with this every month. Whether he will or not, who knows. They never seem to think it's a big deal causing a sick disabled person extra stress and messing up my lifesaving meds every month.
Also I tried to get a physiotherapy appointment as my general injuries like inflamed tendon and plantar fasciitis have flared up again and my knee is getting painful too. I'm on the "open appointment" list, meaning I'm a regular patient there so i'm supposed to be able to phone up and get an appointment whenever my issues flare up, instead of being on the waiting list for ages like people with new problems are. In spite of this the soonest they can see me is Feb 12th! I guess I can just be half-lame for the next two months.
So exhausted. The way medical care is run in this country makes my medical issues, stress and general problems worse than they are already instead of helping. Everything is always an uphill battle. Same as dealing with benefit/financial problems. I am sick and supposed to be resting but I constantly have to fight and struggle for every little thing like food and meds. Why don't they just legalise £uth@n@s1@ instead of killing us slowly?
Proud of you for trying to get that stuff fixed despite the literal headaches it causes, hopefully it proves effective and helps a little with getting your meds corrected. Two months to wait for what's becoming a routine phsyio appointment is absurd.
Thanks. I just got back from my appointment. The doctor said he will correct the dosages, he deleted the items I no longer require, and he put it on a 6 month thing (can't remember the name) where every two months for the next 6 months I can get the pharmacy to redo my prescriptions without needing to get a script from the doctor, so at least it cuts out the middleman temporarily. I guess I'll have to see how easy the pharmacy makes it, they're not too good in there.
Waiting times are ridiculous. Normally if you have a new injury it's about a 4 month wait to be seen. But being on the regular list and being able to come back any time, I should be seen within about a week usually. But the NHS is just falling apart, everything takes so long and is so difficult. I'll try and see if I can go back to the podiatrist, it might be quicker and they deal with tendon issues too.