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Obviously incapable of making decisions !! Bit of a rant!!

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Imperfect27 Mon 18-Sept-17 11:39:22

I do love a good rant Nana and can fully understand why you are fed up.

My first thought is that there are plenty of off the shelf types of cough linctus and if something of this ilk soothes, I cannot see a problem with it as a 'holding' mechanism whilst you await your appointment - unless what you buy is in danger of compromising / conflicting with any other meds you might take. Most seem pretty innocuous as long as you don't have to drive far!

Sorry you are unwell and I hope it gets sorted soon. flowers

Sometimes drs will give a telephone consultation , rather than you having to wait all that time - might be worth a try.

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NanaandGrampy Mon 18-Sept-17 11:31:53

I have been struggling with a cough from the dark side for the last few weeks. I saw my GP last week and got steroids and an inhaler but its not made a jot of difference.

I took some cough medicine at the weekend and it did allow me to stop coughing long enough to grab a little sleep ( something that's been sadly lacking !!).

I went to buy more cough medicine this morning but the pharmacist after interrogating quizzing me refused to sell it to me. NOT because of a medication clash but because and I quote' it won't help'!!

Now I know I need to go back to my GP ( the first available apt is on the 25th!!) and I am aware I obviously have an infection and I KNOW that the cough medicine wont cure me BUT it helps me get through some of the symptoms until I can see my GP.

When did the pharmacist get to be made arbiter of my decisions? Surely, if I have all the info ( am hopefully not mentally impaired) and am doing all I can I should be allowed to purchase over the counter medicine ( placebo or not !).

Plainly not !!

I do truly appreciate the advice but shouldn't the final decision be down to me ? Or am I being totally unreasonable?

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