| I've never been told that I can't have any strips yet! But getting a prescription right is another story indeed....
My old doctor as long as I phoned before 10am I could pick up my scripe in the afternoon... Being a one man band, they knew there more dependant patients by first name etc...
But since his retirement surgery has gone the same way has any other doctor surgery is.... You have 4 choices now
1, post your repeat request in
2, Go in to make a request
3, Phone your request via the pharmcey
4, E-mail your request
But just don't ever try to phone a request, phone shall go down if you try!!!
1st two are hopeless, if you try to e-mail you get to the surgery after the 72 hour wait period only find that no-one has checked the e-mails for that week so it hasn't been done!
So only real oprion is to phone the pharmacy... Then the fun begins.... Phone monday and pick-up script on Thursday or Friday (if you lucky) pharmacy and surgery is all part of the same perpose built building!
Ring up for test strips and there is a good chance that I'm going to end up with lancets? I've now have a 5 years supply of Lancets!
Ring up for humalog and I get Levermir which for some stange reason I only get one box of Humalog, but 2 of Levermir?
I've had to postpone a holiday by a day, because it took 2 attemps to get the right precribtion written out, I've ended up having to go to A&E doctor to get insulin after my prescription was wrong 3 times and my last supply of insulin I took on the saturday morning before going to the chemist only to find that the wrong prescription had been done again, and it was bank holiday and I had no insulin left!
But what bugs me more than anything is the amonut of time I've got to run up and down to collect my medication... As I've got to take several different tablets as well as my insulin... But they all finish at different times and are dispensed in different amounts! ahhhHHH  | 
