Forum homeâ€ș The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

🐧🐧CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XXI🐧🐧

1…758759761763764…958

Posts

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Remember I said a month ago my son’s incurable illness was miraculous cured,  not feeling well again after reducing the tablets as instructed,  doctor says you impost reduce the drug,  gets on to hospital,  ‘Thowwy’,  we made a mistake’. I’m sure my son has 9 lives. 
    Now he has to try to get another prescription,  all the pharmacy are going on now is the letter saying he’s cured.   He’s taken this in his stride for years,  I wonder how he copes,  never loses time from work,  uses his holiday days for hospital visits,  today I’ve never heard him so low,  says he’s sick of it all. 
    This is nothing to do with lack of funds,  it’s purely incompetence from the next generation of doctors/staff. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I know what you mean @Lyn Our local chemist has been taken over by a chain. All of the old competent staff have disappeared. When I went to pick up my prescription, they retrieved it from a large heap of prescriptions, small plastic crates and God knows what  on the floor behind the counter.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @B3.  Not the pharmacies fault really,  they’re going by the hospital letter which shouldn’t have been sent out.   But how long until they get another letter authorising the drug,  anyone’s guess,! 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Hope it gets sorted soon
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @Lizzie27 some people, and I do emphasise only some, do react badly to mophine patches.  My sister-in-law was given them and she started to have bad hallucinations within a few days.  Thankfully they stopped very quickly when she stopped using the patches.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    All opiates, whatever route they are taken by can cause hallucinations, it is not related to the patches per se. I am currently getting terrible dreams on my codeine.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I took morphine for about 18 months prior to my hip surgery and had no adverse side effects and came off it with no problem.
    However I had " cold turkey " symptoms for nearly 3 years when I came off tramadol.
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Tramadol is renowned for having very unpleasant side effects in some people, I have always avoided it it. However, some people tolerate it better than Codeine.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    Tramadol is renowned for having very unpleasant side effects in some people, I have always avoided it it. However, some people tolerate it better than Codeine.
    Codeine " bungs me up "
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Me too, so have to medicate for that too, but as an old boss of mine said, any drug that has a beneficial effects, will also have side effects. No side effects, means no beneficial effects.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Sign In or Register to comment.