So…

As I intimated in my earlier post, I went to Mindcare this morning to see what’s happening regarding my medication. A nice lady came out to speak to me and I explained the situation. She said that the guy who I’d seen the week before was off until Monday and that she would leave a message for him to get back to me and that he does clinics, also on Mondays, that he may be able to squeeze me on to to sort out my prescription.

This, apparently, was the best she could do for me at this time. I said it’s nearly 12 weeks since diagnosis, her reply, dismissively “well that’s not long!” I bit my lip as I thought about the other 14 months since referral at which she noticed my irritation as I said very pointedly  “I came off my previous medication at your advice and now I’m taking nothing and getting worse, I’m going backwards, I’m not well!”

Again I got “Sorry, but that’s all we can do…try your GP, it might be quicker?”

Me:  “I thought that’s why I had to come here, because my GP wasn’t supposed to prescribe these drugs?”

Her: “Well as long as the clinical information is on the system they can contact us and do the prescription”

Me: “Is the clinical info on the system?”

Her: “<shrugs> Should be!”

So I went to my GP and explained the situation to the receptionist who took a look at the “system” to find NO clinical information, without which, therefore, the GP can’t prescribe my meds. She gave them a call, the person I’d spoken to ten minutes previously had vanished but the person she spoke to agreed that there was no clinical info on the system, but an appointment had been booked for me on the 17^th JULY – she must have forgotten to tell me that while I was at Mindcare. So the receptionist got them to leave a message with the pharmacist to call her about it on Monday with a view to getting this clinical info on the “system” so my GP can sort a prescription for me – so fingers crossed for Monday!!!

So thanks to Alison at Redlam Surgery but to the lovely folk at Mindcare; “Thank you for making Admin more important than my health, you’ve given me such a warm glow inside! It’s a prescription that YOU have agreed on for crying out loud!!!”  I hope I can get a prescription sorted by my GP because I will go postal on the consultant’s ass – mental health doesn’t work around your calendar and I’m getting a bit volcanoish where he’s concerned!

I know people who’ve waited far longer for diagnoses and correct medication and care and they have my total respect and support, I’m just fighting my own little corner – but something needs to be done about it – depression can be as deadly as any other illness out there!