Getting Prescribed Medication

Each month, it seems, I have to battle with my surgery to get the medication I not only need but that has been prescribed for me after agreement with my doctor. There is now another layer who can, and do, at a stroke, alter the prescription or delete it altogther if they think you do not need it or it is too costly. that is the pharmacists, whose only role in life it seems is to reduce costs, regardless of the affect it has on the patient.
The latest debarcle was over vitamin D tablets which I have sued for years. Like many here I do not go out as much as I should, and being a vegetarian diabetic my vitamin D is in short supply. I have also read that it can help with MD, it certainly has with me. The pharmacist changed my presciption without my consent or knowledge and gave me soem that I could not use becasue they contain animal parts. this despite it being written on my records that I was not to be prescribed this sort of thing. For over a week I was left without, whilst we went through various hoops and angry meetings and phone calls.
Before that it was tramadol which I use for pain relief. Denying me that when I needed it meant I started getting withdrawal symptoms and going ‘cold turkey’. This necessitated a home visit by the GP, which took eight hours incidentally.
Be careful if they are not already there they will be coming to a practice near you.
I should mention that when i asked if they were also requiring drug addicts to re use needles and to cut down on the methadone they hung up on me.

Mike