My pharmacist caught it and I have thought about it ever since

Started 11 April 2025 · 18 replies · 205 hearts · read 2k times

BoazHaarlem, NL · 11 April 2025

1.3 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: My pharmacist caught it and I have thought about it ever since Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Money post. No apologies, this circle is for it.

I have been refused and I would like to appeal properly rather than emotionally, because the emotional version is what I sent last time.

I would like to know whether it is worth appealing, and specifically what changed for the people whose appeals succeeded.

I will report back with what happened, because appeals threads that stop are the most frustrating kind.

DevManchester, UK

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

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

Facilitator note: nothing here is financial advice any more than it is medical advice. It is what members have found, described plainly.

AurelBucharest, RO

Building on what Petra wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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SunnivaBodø, NO

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

MaeveSligo, IE

I would say to anybody about to switch: get the new instructions in writing and read them back to somebody.

XanBerlin, DE

The storage requirements were different too, which I discovered on day two, and that is a small thing that could have been a big one.

NúriaBarcelona, ES

Agreed, and I have nothing to add to it.

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

What Núria described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What helped was doing the switch in a quiet week rather than around anything else, so that anything unexpected had room.

OrlaithDonegal, IE

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

I felt like new again for about three weeks and then it settled, and I had not expected any adjustment period at all.

BoazHaarlem, NL

#10

Something I got right was asking my pharmacist to talk me through the new one properly rather than reading the leaflet at home.

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DevManchester, UK

#11

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.

RuaridhFort William, UK

#12

My switch was for supply reasons rather than choice and it happened faster than I would have liked, which is where the risk of error sits.

AurelBucharest, RO

#13

Nothing useful, just that I have been exactly here.

9me too 3

SunnivaBodø, NO

#14

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

MaeveSligo, IE

#15

The thing I would flag is that a number that looks the same may not mean the same thing, and checking that is the whole job.

XanBerlin, DE

#16

Coming back to what Sunniva wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

What I found is that the devices were different enough that the practical routine had to be relearned, which nobody had mentioned.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

#17

Speaking as a facilitator: please do not stop without a conversation. Several people in this circle found an option they did not know existed.

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

#18

Something practical: I wrote down exactly what I had been on, in the exact terms it was described, and handed that over rather than summarising.

9me too 8