3:12pm Script still not signed. Ggrrrr!!

[usandthem]

Its pick up day and as usual waiting for the doc to sign the prescription again . Grrr!!  I rang this morning at 9am - then 12pm - then 3pm still not signed. I bet the receptionist hate me for keep badgering them to check.  They only have 2 weeks to make up these prescriptions and put a doctors squiggle on them. So why the lag??. A one off  then OK - but this is nearly every single time.  About the 50th time I have had to keep phoning down the surgery for my script. Phhh!! Methadone junkies back of the queue as usual!!    John

[simon]

Why do you have to go every two weeks? Can't they give you four or six weeks worth of prescriptions?

[sapphire]

My DSP are exactly the same usandthem - every 2 weeks without fail I have to traipse iup there to get the damn thing even though I'm only supposed to have to have monthly appointments.

I feel your pain!!

You'd think though that getting the scripts done should be the very backbone of the service, if they can't even do that properly it does make you wonder what the fuck they spend all day doing.

[simon]

If patients aren't chaotic then it's crazy to have them have to go every two weeks for prescriptions. It's a bind as it is having to go to the pharmacy. Most odd, no idea why they do this.

[MotherSuperior]

I had to wait for two days(without Methadone) this week. I am too tired to post the details right now but believe me I intend to. They messed up my apointment, first they tried to blame me but when I got hard evidence in the form of a booking card and the appointments book showed I was right, one of the nice workers apologised many times whilst the manager refused to accept any responsobility.

It's been a tough 48 hours.... they wanted me to wait till Friday but today I got on the phone to almost everyone I knew in a position to help me.... suprise suprise they magiced up a script for me to collect(the manager went to great pains to tell me that I was actually LUCKY as I got a script).

The service is a shambles, one of the drufg workers once got quite aggresive and loud as I said he was wrong about his statement that Cannabis is a Class A, furthermore it causes more psycological damage than any other drug.... if I behaved that way, no doubt I would be kicked out scriptless, the funny thing is he was mad and said that just because he had not been to uni., did not read piles of TEXTURE books, he knew enough to do his job. I could not help but laugh at his assertion I read piles of TEXTURE books, I held back saying that surely he meant TEXT books. Well, hoc dicit omni(that says it all). I will post of the incident when I get some sleep, been ill from Methadone WD for 2 days, no sleep and I am sure most here know the feeling.

[AllOut]

Mother Superior it states quite clearly in texture books whatever you want it to say!

[froude]

usANDthem,please dont get me started about scripts being late ,i could write a 40000 page essay on LATE PERSCRIPTIONS,they really take the Piss dont they,sorry thats all i can say ,otherwise you'll get a rant lol.Get it sorted out mate ,All the best Froude

[skroe]

Geez is this a new thing Docs are doing?
Honestly the stress and bullshit I have to go through for my scripts with my surgery is lame, I see my doc, then, they say my scripts have been done and sent.. my chemist has not got them..So its Then its back to the doctor, they say they can't print out new scripts because they been done!!!!, my chemist has not had them still,
My docs think I'm trying it on! to get a double script or something.. which I've never done any time ever..  its there fault, I start panicking!!
Then when somebody in the surgery really looks into it, finally after so much pissing about its solved,  its because the doctor has not signed, sent, or printed them!!! forgetting!
then its the same shit next time again.
Its if they feel they cannot be wrong, there doctors they don't make mistakes attitude, but its happening a lot more, esp this year..

Though its not my meth script so I feel for you...My god that's terrible!!!!!!
I have to see my meth doctor every six weeks, 4 days before my script is due to run out, and he prints them and gives me them in person..so I'm lucky with him.

Its my family g.p/ local practice I get the bullshit with...  that's my benzo,mitazapine diabetic, arthritis heart etc, scripts..
Christ!

My pharmacist is told me in "confidence"-wink wink, that, if there's issues with generally "older people" scripts that has never had any "addiction or substance abuse issues", but who are on controlled meds like benzos, or strong pain medications, the doctors are more sympathetic and sort out mistakes if any quicker. She told me she does see discrimination, Esp with my surgery, They do not prescribe methadone etc, Thats why C.A.U. had to find me a doctor to prescribe my methadone script from in a different practice. Thank F*ck too...
I'm not saying all doctors are discriminating, but you tend to feel sometimes they mess you around purposely..

I'm shocked other people are going through shit with there scripts too..There might be a light of truth in what my pharmacist told me?
 

[usandthem]

God only knows Simon. They said it was to give me the feeling that I was being treated like a 'normal' patient. i.e independant patient picking up prescriptions every fortnite. It is anything but normal. All over the surgery they give all patients in the nhs the chance to have their prescriptions sent straight to the pharmacist. Oh but not me!! "No" they said at reception. "You have to come in person to sign the release book for your script" I think its a bondage thing. I cant be trusted to take my prescription to the pharmacy without having to sign that I received it. Maybe they think I would try and screw them over and say the reception did not hand the prescription over to me. lol! Anyway, im so glad others have posted I thought it was just me and I was paranoid. It seems this is happening all over. They must have picked up on the dealers strategy of 'once the addict gets what they need they will no longer be pissed with you, even though we have stood them up all day'. A sort of powder power thing or maybe its methadone power. The ever compliant methadone junkies will take their shit. Discrimination of the highest order. What happened to therapeutic care. Its no wonder people are turning back to their street dealers. When will they sort it out. John

[derek d j]

Some people can't exist unless they feel 'in charge' and, unfortunately, a disproportionate percentage of such types seem to find their way into Drug Treatment. They get a buzz from being in control and having the power over their dependent charges.

Had I a pound for every time I've heard " I'd love to tell those f***ers what I really think of them but I need my script" I'd be considerably richer than I am. A strange, relatively new and very sad state of affairs.

[physeptomaton]

Some people can't exist unless they feel 'in charge' and, unfortunately, a disproportionate percentage of such types seem to find their way into Drug Treatment. They get a buzz from being in control and having the power over their dependent charges.

Had I a pound for every time I've heard " I'd love to tell those f***ers what I really think of them but I need my script" I'd be considerably richer than I am. A strange, relatively new and very sad state of affairs.

Dissimulation and mutual exploitation. Is it new? Hmm, let me check, it's under the sun so Ecclesiastes says no. Same as "I would love to tell my boss what I think of him when I resign, but he will probably repeat it to all his bossy friends at their next sumptuous meal while I mope around the budget aisle jobless, delighting them no end and killing off my career as surely as by a thousand cuts." or even "I would love to tell David Cameron he isn't my ally, but the country ain't gonna govern itself."

[froude]

Doctors are in less of a rush than the D.S.P's,and that is saying something,personally i would of walked into the doctors and puked on his floor saying"oh im really sorry ,but for some unknown reason my script is late and im clucking,terrible sorry".Dont think he'd want you puking everytime your script is late especially in his office .This treatment of patients either at the doctors or the D.S.P getting it late wouldnt happen to someone if they needed their Heart Pills,seen it myself in my Chemist.Yeah there is a matter of Anti this and Anti that and it seems people in  treatment get it worse,it is no different here in Wiltshire than anywhere else in the country,our scripts/us are getting treated like we dont matter,"oh he is on treatment ,he/she can wait ,it aint like they got anything else to do "or you got D.S.P's getting the perscriptions out the day before they are needed by clients,as Simon said earlier about the perscriptions every 2 weeks,it happens down my way,the perscriptions are written out every 2 weeks and thats it ,if your perscription is wrong and its from my D.S.P you have to wait a week as the person who signs them is only there once  week,MADNESS.If we were all willing  to just keep a note everytime something went wrong with our scripts,and we put it together every 3 months,you see how many times something goes wrong,i mean anything from being late ,to coming back the next day.Ive got to admit at my Chemist(Boots,very small branch)they wont do the Methadone until 9.30 as it gives them time to do it,what makes me seeth is  they have a hatch at the end of the shop where you go for daily pickups(everybody in the town i live in know what it is for),me and the misses wont use it ,we ask them to either give it to us over the counter(as we take it away )or if we have to for some reason,we use the shed they have in there (new booths)All the best Froude

[usandthem]

Yes Froude, exactly the same as that. I too use the Boots store. There is the hatch where they tell you to go to for blue scripts. This is common knowledge in the whole of the UK and both users and ordinary shoppers know exactly who the clientelle are at the hatch. I tap the hatch doors and seldom get a reply. I Knock again. All of a sudden a stick thin, non shaven, out of breath, sweating guy with crooked teeth leans over me and gives the hatch one hell of a bang. They finally answer with a face like thunder. "Needles please 2mls" the guy shouts and shoves them down his crotch area. All the shoppers give me the thousand yard stare as I stand there waiting. There are no seats as they are taken up by inquisitive 93 year old pensioners catching their 15 minute naps as they wait for their hip replacement meds.  "I didn't knock the hatch that loud" I said to the dispenser. "We just have to make it up" or the pharmacist is upstairs on tea-break. On top of all that you have to race around the surgery every fortnite chasing up your script. Then you have the stand in pharmacists who never know your name and can never find your script. Im just a constant whinger really aren't I?!  Yes Froude I think we should go straight to the pharmacist reception rather than the hatch but they always pass your blue prescription meds from the hatch. Or as the shoppers would know it. The place where the junkies get their needles from. Nice!! John

[derek d j]

Dissimulation and mutual exploitation. Is it new? Hmm, let me check, it's under the sun so Ecclesiastes says no. Same as "I would love to tell my boss what I think of him when I resign, but he will probably repeat it to all his bossy friends at their next sumptuous meal while I mope around the budget aisle jobless, delighting them no end and killing off my career as surely as by a thousand cuts." or even "I would love to tell David Cameron he isn't my ally, but the country ain't gonna govern itself."

Oh, the pink inspiration! I wouldn't disagree with your general philosophy of life or the timelessness of human pecadillos. But it's only recently that Drug Treatment appointments seem to produce user feelings varying from concern to dread. Drug dependents may previously have thought their 'key workers' of limited help but worrying they're out to cause harm is a new phenomenon.

[sapphire]

It is so wrong isn't it though. A couple of years ago, all I had to worry about was a well meaning key trying to "help" me, now I have to worry that they are after far more sinister ends.

As we've said before, it just wouldn't fly in any other arena of meical treatment, we are consigned to the medical ghetto.