time to beg for my prescriptions again
look i get how finite prescription repeats can encourage doctors to review your situation and make sure you haven’t racked up twenty different meds, half of which you don’t need anymore but are creating myriad interactions with the other half.
but there must be a better way than forcing me into consults every six months, with multiple doctors, to continue taking any of my medications. some of which i’ve been taking since 2015 and all of which i’ll need for the foreseeable future.
my pdoc charges 300 aud/session (−$119.50), and yet on multiple occasions, writes me scripts with not enough repeats.
my gp charges 83 aud/session (−$39.75), and is consistently booked out 2–3 weeks in advance unless i go with one of the other doctors, who are often too 👻 scared 👻 to write some of my scripts because they “don’t really know hormones”.
both require making phone calls to book, to add insult to injury, and it doesn’t have to be like this! my last two (and @ariashark’s last) general practices all had online bookings, and aria’s last also did online script requests for a small fee.
.oO( maybe youse wouldn’t be so swamped all the time if we weren’t forced to waste your consult slots just for scripts? )
bonus: agomelatine comes in packs of 28, unlike all the other daily meds i take which come in packs of 30, so it always runs out a bit faster. but even if it was 30, there are 181–184 days in any six month period, so writing me 30 days plus six repeats of anything and telling me to come back in six months literally doesn’t add up!
bonus bonus: my current gp can no longer jump through the necessary hoops to write me two boxes of 25 mg at a time for some reason, so i need to get it from my pdoc or fill it twice as often to take 50 mg/day. (i think they need to call the authority number, which is weird because it’s not on the pbs?)