I found out today that there's a shortage of Montelukast 10 mg where I live, dunno if this is the case for all here, but hopefully I'll be able to get 5mg & take 2 instead of 1 10mg 🤞
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Shortage Of Tablets
My pharmacist told me today there's a pack waiting for me so the shortage doesn't seem to be everywhere.
There's a useful website for checking drug shortages sps.nhs.uk/
I take 10mg but my last prescription was 2 packs of 5mg. I’m in the North East
I'm in the south-east! There was a major shortage of ranitidine (for reflux) at the beginning of the year - in fact it was withdrawn for a couple of months, but now it's available again. These things come & go
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I’ve heard from people there is a shortage in the east but I thankfully got a tray before that started.
I've have been told by Boots pharmacy on a couple of occasions that Ventolin was out of stock with the manufacturer & they offered me a generic version, which I declined. I checked with GSK and was told there was no problem. Boots were able to give me the GSK version.
I've checked sps.nhs.uk and there is no record of a shortage of Montelukast.
I wonder if the wholesaler is the cause of the problem? Our pharmacies depend on the wholesalers to provide the meds but they operate on a free market basis so they will sell to the highest bidder. Costs can escalate too so pharmacies then have to hunt round for a less expensive source. So we have social health care with limited budgets vs a free market who are motivated by profit.
This issue has been getting worse in recent years according to chemist and drug.co.uk
I dunno, but thankfully managed to get some 5 mg to take instead, so ain't got a clue as to what's going on, but they said that they'll keep on trying to get it in for me
I did a bit of research and apparently it should be available within a week. But I’m afraid I can’t find the link...
Thanks for that, no worries about not being able to find the link. Hoping they can get the rest of another tablet in for me as well 🤞
My husband picked up my repeat prescription fulfilled for Montelukast on Friday ok if that helps reassure you?
My chemist is experiencing difficulty in getting orders not only of montelukast but other meds too and asked me too ring before I went to pick it up just to make sure it had arrived .It took almost a week to arrive but fortunately my drs prescribe me 3 mths supply at a time so I still had a pkt left .
Thanks both of you, my husband got my tablets today & to my surprise there was the 10 mg in there as well, so gonna keep the 5mg as a back up just incase