Hi all, im on Levothyroxine and have found that the TEVA brand works best for me. I spoke with my GP who marked down on the perscription that TEVA is recommended. But my selected Pharmacy sometimes has problems getting stock.
What i want to do is cancel the online repeat perscriptions and collect my green slip from the GP and check out multiple Pharmacys.
Now my question is...can a gp do seperate slips for my medications ie...a slip for 100mg levo...a slip for 50mg levo and a slip for 25mg levo. What i find is one place will have one of what i need and not the other. If i get them on seperate slips i can get them from whoever has them in stock and dont mind going around to get them.
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I got my prescription changed to Teva all of a sudden,didn't know til picked up at chemists one day! My Lalys always seem to get for me,in last 6 months.
If you know what mcg of Teva your local pharmacies generally get, you can then ask you gp to make out a prescription for your dosage in that amount. For instance I find I am better on Mecury pharma (t4). Boots are the only pharmacy that seem to do it, near me; but they only do it in 25mcg tablets. I take 75 a day; so I asked my gp to request Mecury please & do prescription in 25’s. He was happy to do it. Before this pharmacy would have to give me the 50 mcg in some other brand.
Yes, I take 75 a day though so they wouldn’t give me those. I imagine that they may well come in 50’s too; which would make life easier, but Boots don’t have them. Feel lucky to get 25’s 🙄
It’s an independent pharmacy. The pharmacist is pretty good in that he knows I don’t like Teva and that I want the same brand for all my pills. I am a bit naughty as my prescriptions don’t go automatically to the pharmacy. I still collect a prescription from my doctors, just in case he doesn’t have all the same brand, I ask before I hand my prescription over.
I live in a large village and we have 3 large independent pharmacies and in the nearest town a Boots and couple of other pharmacies so competition is high for prescriptions.
Hi. if You speak to your chosen pharmacy they will usually get your preferred brand.
This may not still be relevant but pharmacies received payment from the NHS per script. If there are two items on the script they will only receive one payment, therefore they prefer one item per script.
Thats something new ive learnt. Hope my gp receptionists dont kick up a fuss for me requesting seperate scripts. And i also have to request the slips again as i refused the different meds offered by the pharmacy yesterday.
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