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What my prescriber wrote on the new script

Started 20 August 2025 · 13 replies · 126 hearts · read 2k times

MaeveSligo, IE · 20 August 2025
11 months ago

What my prescriber wrote on the new script — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have a letter in front of me and I do not know what it actually says.

I have not asked about the cost side at any appointment because I was embarrassed, and I have now worked out that this was expensive.

The total across a year is a much bigger number than the monthly one and I have only just made myself look at it properly.

I have a letter in front of me and I genuinely cannot tell what it is saying, which I suspect is not entirely accidental.

No judgement wanted and none expected in this circle, which is why I am asking here.

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DevManchester, UK
#1

My honest report is that the switch was straightforward, took one appointment and one pharmacy conversation, and was fine.

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SunnivaBodø, NO
#2

What I got wrong was assuming the schedule would map across. It did not and I asked before acting, which was the only thing I got right.

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#3

I would have written the same thing a year ago, word for word.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#4

Holding a boundary: we do not compare what people can afford in this circle, and we do not compare what they have chosen to spend it on.

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RuaridhFort William, UK
#5

I kept my old notes and they were useful for showing where I had been, but nothing in them was a starting point for the new one.

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NúriaBarcelona, ES
#6

Orlaith — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

What I underestimated was the admin. New arrangements, new collections, new everything, and it took a month to settle.

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BoazHaarlem, NL
#7

Reading Petra, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Something worth knowing: my review schedule changed with the switch and I nearly missed an appointment as a result.

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XanBerlin, DE
#8

My experience is that this went smoothly because two people checked it, and it would not have if only one had.

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AurelBucharest, RO
#9

Concentrations differ and that is exactly where people get caught. Nothing carried over from my previous arrangement, not a single number.

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MaeveSligo, IE
#10

Gently disagreeing with Boaz, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back to say the switch went fine, that it took about six weeks to feel routine, and that the double-check is what made it safe.

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DevManchester, UK
#11

Somebody in this circle described this as the highest-risk transition in the whole business, and having done it, I agree.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#12

I am adding this to the circle's standing resources, because where somebody sets the sequence out in order it is worth more than any guide I could write.

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#13

Grateful you posted rather than kept it to yourself.

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