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Advice please, after having a valve replaced last week, I am on a course of antibiotics and tablets for next 5 weeks, my worry is that I haven’t been given enough tablets by the hospital and doctor will have reorder some but I unsure if I will to pay for them as the cost and the amount is stressing me out.

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If ur on benefits u won't pay

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Shoshov

i think it’s shocking that people have the added stress of this when we’re stressed enough. move to scotland. we get free prescriptions. kidding aside i hope you get it sorted. i know id be struggling to pay for mine if i had to. good luck my friend❤️shiona

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Sunnie2day in reply toShoshov

My Bisoprolol and GTN spray are free but I pay for my aspirin - and I feel guilty when I walk out with a full sack of meds for less than £1 spent at the till (for the aspirin). I'm very grateful my prescriptions up here are free but when I know what my friend down in Devon is paying for her cancer meds, I feel very, very guilty.

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seasider18 in reply toSunnie2day

Yes your friend is subsidising you.

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Shoshov in reply toseasider18

that’s a bit uncalled for

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MilkfairyHeart Star in reply toSunnie2day

Prescriptions are free for patients with cancer in England

macmillan.org.uk/informatio...

As are for those with thyroid problems or diabetes or AIDS but not for those of us with heart disease.

It's a funny old world....

I pay the pre payment scheme so I recieve all my 9 items for just over £ 100 a year. My oxygen is free.

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Sunnie2day in reply toMilkfairy

I shouldn't have said cancer - she pays for her COPD and other meds, sorry to have been unclear.

Either way, it's not fair prescriptions aren't free unless the patient meets low-income criteria.

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MilkfairyHeart Star in reply toSunnie2day

I agree it's not fair none of us with COPD or Heart conditions should have to pay.

I would be up as many other heart patients be up a certain creek without my meds☹

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Sunnie2day in reply toMilkfairy

Her COPD (from what she tells me) is a consequence of her cancer treatment for non-smokers lung cancer. I hate to admit I don't remember the details beyond her having lost a lobe or more from a lung, and went through many gruelling rounds of chemo. About three months after her last chemo she was diagnosed with COPD and the first time she went for her prescriptions had to pay.

I know she doesn't qualify for free prescriptions as her financial situation means she doesn't meet the criteria. I don't know if she has the pre-pay scheme.

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MilkfairyHeart Star in reply toSunnie2day

Well tell her to apply!

The only good news about ageing is once you hit 60 you no longer have to pay for your prescriptions in England !

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Sunnie2day in reply toMilkfairy

Wait, what?! She's my age (our birthdays are three weeks apart) - why was she paying?!

I'm going to have to call her in the morning and ask some gently worded questions.

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Lezzers in reply toSunnie2day

Hi Sunnie, your friend needs to tick the box on the back on the prescription confirming she's over 60.

She may be able to claim a refund for the overpayments, worth asking about at the pharmacy.

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Sunnie2day in reply toLezzers

Thank-you, I will be ringing her tomorrow morning and will bring that into the conversation.

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Sunnie2day in reply toSunnie2day

We're rather close, the four of us, her husband and mine have known one another since primary school and since meeting her I've come to think of her as the sister I never had. Telephone discussion over but I'm still scratching my head and as a consequence my husband telephoned hers as we know they could definitely use any financial break they qualify for.

Long story short she told me she has to pay for all of her prescriptions (she's 63) including her cancer meds (hence my confusion). After my husband rang off with her husband my lad tells me her husband is worried her meds are having an affect on her mental faculties and has already brought it up with her medical team:(

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Pinkrobin

If you are on long term meds, consider asking your gp for increased quantity. Instead of 1 months supply, ask for 3 months. This may help with costs.

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Speakeazi

Hardly helpful

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werd in reply toSpeakeazi

If you are looking for help. Move north of the border. All welcome. No matter creed colour or need

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seasider18 in reply towerd

Creed ? Ask Rangers/Celtic supporters.

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MichaelJHHeart Star in reply towerd

Ah dae nae speak scots! 😁

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werd in reply toMichaelJH

You certainty do not

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MichaelJHHeart Star in reply towerd

Och aye!

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Lezzers

Not nice & completely unnecessary

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werd in reply toLezzers

No mallace Intended good luck with boris. Your still welcome

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Lezzers in reply towerd

Still not nice!

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seasider18 in reply toLezzers

He's riled because the majority in the once in a lifetime vote wanted to stay in the UK.

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werd in reply toseasider18

Ah little man you do not rile me that's why I have went 46 years with an avr. Wipe the foam from your mouth

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Sunnie2day in reply towerd

ENOUGH! You're going to get a worthy discussion about prescriptions shut down, will you PLEASE let it go?!

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Sunnie2day in reply towerd

Please, enough with the politics, m'k? This is one place we need to leave our politics at the door.

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Lezzers in reply toSunnie2day

And the immaturity!!

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seasider18

I thought that hospitals now charged patients for drugs if they were not entitled to free prescriptions.

Glad I did not have to pay after my aortic valve replacement as I was initially on ten different ones.

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