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Abba Fan

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2018, 03:09:36 PM »
1 month supply at mine too, I got so fed up with it and went to a private GP who prescribes me 6 months at a time.
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Dotty

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2018, 03:23:58 PM »
Abba Fan - how much does that cost you?
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Abba Fan

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2018, 03:41:33 PM »
Hi Dotty, it costs me around £100 every 6 months, that's for 12 containers of estrogel.
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Dotty

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2018, 03:48:23 PM »
Abba Fan - have you thought about getting a pre paid prescription certificate? It would be cheaper.
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Abba Fan

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2018, 05:10:22 PM »
Dotty, I work full time and don't have the time to put in the prescription, then pick it up. Sometimes, the prescription isn't ready when I try to pick it up so it means going back again. That surgery have given me the runaround so much I just find it easier to go private.
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Taz2

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2018, 06:26:12 AM »
Our surgery does online repeat prescriptions and I then have it sent straight over to the local Sainsbury pharmacy so I can pick it up between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. each day or on Sundays. I appreciate I'm lucky to have a choice of pharmacy.

Taz x
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Zara69

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2018, 06:53:00 AM »
I get 6 months from my GP with annual check ups...I'm lucky but my surgery didn't want to prescribe HRT at all really....
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Tinkerbell

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2018, 07:49:08 AM »
Some gp practice's are changing to one month prescribing, hope mine never does as I seem to live at the chemist already!
http://www.dorsetccg.nhs.uk/Downloads/aboutus/medicines-management/Useful%20Resources/28%20day%20prescribing%20leaflet.pdf
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Hurdity

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #23 on: May 15, 2018, 06:49:50 PM »
Yes but the leaflet specifically mentions HRT as different:

Are there any exceptions?
There are some drugs which
are packaged in 3 monthly
amounts e.g. contraceptive
pills and hormone
replacement therapy (HRT).
These will continue to be
supplied in this way.

Fortunately I also get 3  months. I think the only place for a 1 month prescription is when starting a new HRT type for the first time and having a review to check all is well before putting on 3 mmonth repeat. I wonder if there are general guidelines on this or whether it is completely up to the individual practice?

Hurdity x
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Taz2

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2018, 07:48:05 PM »
Thanks Hurdity. What do they mean by 'packaged in three monthly amounts? Mine is in one monthly boxes so I guess that doesn't count? I have an annual review.

Taz  :-\
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Robin

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Re: 3 months supply or 1?
« Reply #25 on: May 15, 2018, 08:00:49 PM »
When I first started hrt I was taking Estelle and that was packaged in 3 months in a box but my patches are only a month in each box.

Robin
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