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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
John, I do appreciate that you are one of the folk who do need the medications to keep you going, but I am aware that drugs company's promote drugs to GP's with a range of freebies(or at least they did...seminars in warm sunny places, with a few rounds of Golf tacked on).......this is lucrative and ensures that the company's profile remains high.... Many drugs have side effects that require other drugs to control them...which also have side effects for some people.......requiring still further medications.
Before you know it you need two suitcases to get your medications home....and a wardrobe to keep them in........Yes, Ok, perhaps I ambeing a bit fly here......but the drug companies really do have a lot of clout.
Please Lord, let me stay healthy....... is my ever abiding prayer.
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I actually think the main problem is the repeat prescription Margaret, I put in a repeat prescription ever month, but before I do I check which drugs I actually need any one particular month, some I need to order every month without fail, because I order every 28 days other drugs can build up so I can cross them of occasionally. But I know for a fact that a lot of people (especially elderly patients) send in a repeat and order everything come what may. I know when my Mother died she had about 3 months supply of Gaviscon (it was obtained on prescription then) but as weave discussed on here before you can't return them to the chemist so its waste which must cost the NHS millions or pounds a year