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DiscussionFeelings when tapering: My journey
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Nov 13 10:21am | Replies (57)Comment receiving replies
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Can you ring the pharmacy to prepare your scripts before you go in? My local chemist tells me by phone what scripts they have left for me and gets them ready in 20-30 minutes. I take my time to go in and am straight in and out of the chemist in a few minutes. Nothing worse than hanging around potentially sick people waiting for scripts. I always wear my mask so they know I'm serious about avoiding catching anything and getting out fast.
@tiateacake I moved your discussion to your original discussion on tapering so that members could see your thank you message, https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/feelings-when-tapering/.
I was given a load of 1mg extra one month, I took them back to the surgery and questioned it only to be told it was fine. I had to make a phone call appointment to speak to the nurse and I had to wait 2 weeks for that. But she did admit she had made a mistake and they have come in useful when I use the pill cutter on the last week before taper. And my NHS app says I don’t need a new prescription so obviously that has gone wrong, the extras definitely came in handy then.
The 1mg tablets you got may not be extra. You will need to have them on hand to prepare to reduce below 10, whether you take 9.5mg (1x5mg + 4x1mg + 1/2x1mg) or 9mg (1x5mg + 4x1mg), so you need a range of tablets on hand. Or did they think you had reduced too much at once by reducing 2.5mg in one go... has your doctor clarified that yet?