A private prescription alongside NHS care

Started 4 August 2024 · 12 replies · 148 hearts · read 3.1k times

MorayElgin, UK · 4 August 2024

2 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: A private prescription alongside NHS care

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

HettieLancaster, UK

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

NevGrimsby, UK

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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MableBolton, UK

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

Gwen DAberystwyth, UK

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

TedIpswich, UK

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

BassCoventry, UK

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

JunoBrighton, UK

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

8me too 1

TildaCambridge, UK

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

8me too 2

MarnieAyr, UK

#10

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#11

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

NemoneLewes, UK

#12

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.