"I Suppose It Was Logical!"

[Sean Regan]

My wife is on about half a dozen drugs, which I re-order by e-mail when a repeat prescription is needed.

We've had some near misses where she has nearly run out, because she hadn't bothered to check her supply often enough.
This could be concerning as it takes two days for the prescription to reach the chemist and the surgery isn't open at week-ends.

I told her she needed to take more responsibility.

After the last, "near miss," I decided to print out a proforma with columns for the ordering her drugs.
I got her to count up how many days supply she had of each and calculated when the next prescription needed to be ordered.
A column for when it had been received and a further column for the date the item needed to be ordered again. etc.,
I was quite pleased with the idea and presented it to her.
She looked at and said, "Fine! But I don't need this, it's your job!"

Doh!
I had to laugh.

 

[Tetters]

I have a similar amount of drugs to take, and I know for sure that I have to keep an eye on them myself.
No use asking Zigs to do it, I would have run out months ago ! Your wife clearly trusts you so well aaaaah!

 

[Anniekay]

I have more issues with the Doctor's office calling the refills in to the Drug store than remembering to call in refills myself.

Half the time I call for refills and the Drug store tells me nobody has called them in and they can't refill it !! Then I call the Doctor's office and if it's about refilling prescriptions you have to leave voice mail.

Now I call for refills two weeks ahead of time so I never run out.

 

[Sean Regan]

We use the same chemists.
I e-mail the surgery with a repeat prescription request and when the doctor has signed it, it gets sent to the chemists. It's pretty foolproof.
I did change the chemists last year. Previously, I used a branch of a chain.
For one of her regular drugs, I'd sometimes have to return the following day, for possibly six tablets, out of say fifty, because they hadn't got enough stock to complete the prescription. This could happen to other patients with their prescriptions
This was because their head office deliberately kept them short of stock.
When retailers calculate the profitability of a branch, they charge, "interest on stocks," as an expense. They take the total value of the stock and calculate how much interest that money would earn if it were invested. The fact that if they hadn't got the stock, they wouldn't have a business, makes it a bit of a joke. The chemist I use is an independent, so they always have stock.

I have to add that we're thankful for the fact that we have the National Health Service.
Presently, each item on a prescription, costs £9.90. Regardless of the cost of the drug. But there's no charge at all for children or people over 60 years of age.