New doctors.

[mag123ben]

Saw a new doctor, said would go through my tablets. Quite a few granted . One particular he mentioned ( forget names) but did I still have gout in my feet. NO.! I don't, as on the tablets. So he suggested I come of them as no longer needed. I'm with my daughter and we're looking at him. He repeats you don't need them as no pain. Sorry I said would leave it and all my tablets till see another doctor. Never mentioned why I went to see him , was to afraid he would stop all my tablets. Anyway seen another doctor and she said to stay on them. How many other new doctors are getting older patients of their tablets as they don't need them. As no pain. To save the national health. ?

[hunter5582]

That seems most odd to stop a medication used to control gout (allopurinol?) when it is working. It is hard to judge why the doc would do that, particularly in light of another doc continuing the meds. If allopurinol was the drug in question, it is quite cheap with a retail cost of 100 mg (90 ea): $11.00, or 300 mg (90 ea): $17.00.

Good for you for advocating for yourself and dismissing the doctor who was not providing satisfactory services.

[mag123ben in reply to hunter5582]

Allopurinol was the tablet. Twice now I have been told I take two many tablets. Prescription 21. Some twice a day. I suffer with mental issues, and this sort of thing sets me of with why bother. The fibromyalgia was a ( all in the head issue) glad I have my son and daughter to support. Daughter has fibromyalgia also.

[nellietheelephamt]

I was once told by a junior doctor at a hospital to stop taking all my tablets. I queried the stopping of blood pressure pill and warfarin and was told again to stop taking them as no longer needed. I phoned my GP for advice when I got home and she had a hissy fit.

When admitted to hospital one of the first things done is all tablets stopped - that phase never lasts long as my blood pressure goes haywire and my INR drops below 1 within 24:to 48 hours.

You have to be an informed patient and be very clear that you have been looking after you all your life and in some areas know more than the doctor. One hospital doctor didn't know what one of my abnormal blood tests was and I was so ill all I could tell him was to Google it.

[mag123ben in reply to nellietheelephamt]

Why don't Dr read our notes and check up before they come to the patient. A tablet given is for a reason. If they don't know ask someone above them. Our lives depend on them.