Hi,
Has anyone had issues with their GP being very hesitate with offering their patients branded medication, instead forcing them to take generics?...
I've been on keppra and lamotrigine for afew years, and I'm very sensitive to which version I take.
I've been supplied a change of brand in the past, and reacted really badly to them, it's caused a number of seizures not long after taking them...
I've made it clear in the past I'd like to stay on the same branded version, but everytime I have a change of dosage via my consultant, and I need my prescription updated, my surgery seem to constantly put me back onto the generic versions!?...
So I've had a change of dosage again, report in hand, I went in to the surgery, showed the secretary, she told me they'd have it updated by the following morning.
So I pop in to pick up the updated prescription, get home, and realise they'd done it again, put me back onto the generic version.
I go back in (like I have nothing better to do) and she stated the GP was only willing to give me the generic version of the updated medication (levetiracetam), and I'd need to go in to see my GP to explain my reasoning if I wanted the branded version (keppra).
So now I'm having to go in to see my GP, which isn't the easiest thing to do, wasting my time, and wasting the GP's time to tell him what he'll already have on record.
Why do they make you jump through soo many hoops to have this done?
Has anyone had issues with their GP being very hesitate with offering their patients branded medication, instead forcing them to take generics?...
I've been on keppra and lamotrigine for afew years, and I'm very sensitive to which version I take.
I've been supplied a change of brand in the past, and reacted really badly to them, it's caused a number of seizures not long after taking them...
I've made it clear in the past I'd like to stay on the same branded version, but everytime I have a change of dosage via my consultant, and I need my prescription updated, my surgery seem to constantly put me back onto the generic versions!?...
So I've had a change of dosage again, report in hand, I went in to the surgery, showed the secretary, she told me they'd have it updated by the following morning.
So I pop in to pick up the updated prescription, get home, and realise they'd done it again, put me back onto the generic version.
I go back in (like I have nothing better to do) and she stated the GP was only willing to give me the generic version of the updated medication (levetiracetam), and I'd need to go in to see my GP to explain my reasoning if I wanted the branded version (keppra).
So now I'm having to go in to see my GP, which isn't the easiest thing to do, wasting my time, and wasting the GP's time to tell him what he'll already have on record.
Why do they make you jump through soo many hoops to have this done?
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