My injection is due today but my go says I cannot have it due to Covid 19 situation and my surgery is closed to visitors.
As I don’t absorb vitamins the tablets won’t work but he said it won’t hurt me to miss one or maybe two injections which I’m worried about.
So sorry to hear this. Ask if you can self inject instead. This is subcut so you are injecting into fat rather than muscle - unless you feel brave enough to inject into thigh muscle. There is someone on here who is injecting like this with GPs permission. You shouldnt have to suffer without.
I’m needle phobic so couldn’t do it and wouldn’t allow a family member do it do I’ll just have to wait
Oh dear so sorry to hear that. Well all I can say is the nhs is cotinuing its immunisation programme for children so am slightly at a loss as to why they cant inject you! Lol....
Write to your doctor saying that your B12 injections are essential treatment and that you are worried about permanent nerve damage.
cc: the letter to the practise manager, your local MP, the local press, radio and TV.
I actually spoke to my go and he told me it’s ok to miss one or two months
Ask him where he got such an idea from. Why does the BNF say 'every two to three months' instead of every to to five months.
It’s because the surgery is closed to the public
It is the the surgery's responsibility to get the injection for you whether they do it themselves or get someone else to do it.
I have seen doctors on television pleading with patients not to suffer in silence. Wondering where all their usual patients are. Yes, they are still supposed to be offering the usual services so far as practical.
We have seen at least one person say they received their injection while in their own car in the surgery's car park!
My gp told me yesterday they are following a new guideline??? to try and move as many patients as possible to tablets and off injections and taking the "opportunity" of the pandemic to review their b12 patients. I have to have tablets for 3 months then a blood test to see where my levels are at. The receptionists however are only telling people when they ring up about their jab that they will be recalled at a later date. It's only because I insisted on speaking to the gp that he told me this was the plan. It seems nationally lots of gps are doing this so where has this new "guideline" come from?
That's balderdash and tommyrot. The surgery isn't closed.
I've been communicating with somebody from our local support group. They were told that they couldn't have their injections. Then they got a call from the doctors saying that they were due a blood test for ferritin levels and that they can have the B12 at the same time.
The surgery was closed for people needing a life-saving injection, but not for somebody needing a routine blood test!
I spoke to the go and it was him that told me- he even prescribed another box of the injection and said I’d have to wait until they were open
There was another post on here describing that GPs have indeed been advised that they can postpone b12 injections during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some GPs have allowed their patients to self inject, others are going without or buying their own. Its all very wrong especially as they are still routinely injecting babies and children under a vaccination programme as I said previously. More proof that the medical profession do not regard b12 injections as vital sadly.
That was the old advice from the BSH.
Since then they have had discussions with the PAS and given out new advice.
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How does it feel to have too much B12?
seeing neurologist, advice on b12 injections welcomed…
