HI. Not to incite a riot... but just out of curiosity.. as I am reading the paper here in the US about "Preppers" for Brexit...just in case.. any of you thinking of stockpiling prednisone??? The thought of running out would throw me into mild hysteria! (During Y2K (remember that?) I stockpiled 2 things. Dog food and Hair dye!!! I was so vain! haha.
Prednisone supply. : HI. Not to incite a riot... - PMRGCAuk
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Bonnie, that’s a difficult question. Should we stockpile Prednisolone against Brexit?
Going by at least one of our national dailies, we’ll be far too busy panicking, as food, water and fuel will all mysteriously disappear on Day 1, and by Day 2 we’ll all be living in rags, staggering around accosting strangers asking if they know of anywhere that still has electricity where we can charge our mobiles to text fond farewells to friends overseas.
Our national newspapers never sensationalise of course, so it must all be true.
Makes you wonder how, as a little island, we somehow managed to survive for all those centuries before we voted to join the Common Market...
Seriously, as steroids are only available on prescription, as far as I know, whether we get to hold extra will presumably be in the hands of our GPS (well, I know mine will be anyway)
I’ll resist the temptation to rant but I do think this time it’s a bit more than a bit of software. UK GP’s computers flag up when people order too much of anything so you can’t stockpile easily and for how long anyway? I’m going to ask my GP if I can have some extra given that they won’t go to waste because I have to have them. Who knows what memos are going round from powers that be who will be trying to look like they’ve got it under control because you have to appear to have a policy for everything, even the unknown. If it does go badly for patients I wonder who will be accountable?
Oh yes and I shall be open to negotiating when you lot run out .... not.
It’s mine, all mine, mine (cries with hysteria)
You know I’m joking eh?
🤥
I Predict a Riot
All I have in my head now is that
My favourite Green Day song
My last request from GP was 1 mg tablets thay came in a box not 30 as normal but a large box with 210 in it .
My Pharmacy have lost the plot
Last order for repeat of meds for 2 months ended up with 4 months supply but no one knows how
in reply to Rose54
Shuuuuush! I wouldn't complain about that Rose!
Isn’t that song by the Kaiser Chiefs, Rose? 🤔
You are so right
Thanks talk about Pred head did not even think about it Green Day popped into my head and that was it
Thanks for correcting me
I always have a bit of a stock of pred as I have 5, 2.5, and 1mg all on repeat prescription so every time I order them I get two months supply, no problem. The boarder in Ireland appears to be a problem but we had one for along time in the past and it didn’t work then either. Politics sends me to sleep💤
in reply to CT-5012
Great Joy there CT! Anything that helps sleep!
Mind you yogabonnie , by the time the U.K.
actually leaves(hard border anyone?) hopefully most of us will be off prednisolone even using DSNS method. It’s all a bit “Hotel California” as a well known radio2 presenter was saying today 😉
There are a lot of reasons to keep some extra. Having witnessed two hurricanes this year, I understood the wisdom to have a small bag packed with meds and a change of clothes ready to go. It would be truly horrible to show up at an evacuation center with no prednisone.
I have some extras on hand, when I move to the next level I always get the past prescription filled if there are any refills left on it.
We’re all coming to live with you yogabonnie. 😃
Yes! Or I can send you pills tucked in teddy bears like contraband!
Tedski would do it for a fee!
Haven’t heard from Mark for a while, perhaps he’s in the land of the well.
I heard it was writer’s cramp, SJ.......
But even Tedskis have to get into the country! If the process I experienced at Newcastle the other day has to be implemented in Dover it'll take a fortnight to get through imigration. If you are lucky that is...
If anyone is ever in dire straits for pred, the pharmacies here (Spain) will sell it without a prescription... so long as it isn't antibiotics or psychotropic stuff, they'll sell you anything here without a prescription. 😨
I can only ask for Pred.,once a month,it is not on a repeat prescription. The doctor does usually give me a generous amount. Brexit is taking far too long, we always managed before we joined the so called Common market,did not realise so much of our country was being given away.l would not want to run out of leverthyroxine either !Just have to trust the government.
Funny! I have way more Pred than I need! Not sure why pharmacy keeps filling it. I’m not on auto refill. If friends across the pond need some let me know.
Decreasing to 3 mg this week. Have a pain down the side of my leg from knee to ankle. Feels worse when I go up and down stairs. Appointment next month with a physiotherapist. Never heard of that kind of doctor!
Hey sandy that leg pain could be mild case of shingles I had friend who had it in same spot any redness at all?
The company that distribute much of the Prednisolone in the UK is Co-Pharma which is based in Watford in Hertfordshire. Like much of the world's supply the drug is manufactured in India and Pakistan. In this particular instance Bengaluru in India. If anything, our trade with commonwealth countries will increase after Brexit.
I didn't vote to leave the Eu, but can I remind the Brexit "Panickers" that firstly it's bad for your PMR to worry and secondly the UK was one of the founder members of the World Trade Organisation whose rules we adhered to on trade prior to joining the "Common Market" as it was called then.
The WTO currently has 164 member states. I'm pretty sure, although we probably won't be so cozy with Europe we will still be OK.
Can I remind all those "Non-Millennials" if the dreaded Millennium Bug didn't kill us Brexit won't .
Somehow I still think my grandchildren have been betrayed... Still - mustn't go off topic!
Marijo we’ve all been betrayed
It annoys me when people assume that all over-60s voted a particular way. My granddaughter was 16 at the time and was angry that she wasn't able to vote. She said 'After all it's my future that's at stake.'
It’s a very incorrect assumption and yes it annoys me massively too.
Always great to encounter a like-minded and therefore eminently wise person! Let's hope the final result is the one we want. Everything is so topsy-turvy at present, it's impossible to predict - one can only hope...
I think the drugs that there may be a problem with will be the drugs that are more modern and still made by only one manufacturer. Prednisone has been around for years and made by several manufacturers. Usually the things we worry about don’t happen but I am going to keep a couple of extra weeks in hand.
Fingers crossed!
I've always kept a good stash of pred and as GP allows me to control my own dose, I have been making sure that I order plenty each month. Trouble is, I'm running out of storage space!
The only shortage will be if the pharmacist forget to order. Brexit will cause very little difference to anyone, life will go on in the UK and most probably better than the last 47 years. The key words media use are perhaps and might ..... No riot here
Totally agree Sufferc. I'm one of those who remembers when the media merely reported the news rather than tried to create it. It seems we are now in an age where "Telling a good story" has more value than telling the truth.
Rather like the recent Unilever U-turn on its plans to leave the UK for Europe, money, and those that have it, will continue to control what happens in the world rather than any politician or European bureaucrat with a bad haircut.
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