any of you on prescribed meds?

[katilea]

I'm on Thyroxine (T4) and can't get it Uk without a prescription. However for some reason you can get T3 off bodybuilding sites as they use it before competitions to drop weight or something.

Now T3 is what your body converts T4 into (I just can't make T4 from birth) so its just skipping the conversion process, so I guess at a push I could survive on that if managed to get some delivered well in advance of any mass snow-in. I don't know though whether body would stop doing the conversion after months of snow was over and I was back on the free T4 only from GP (ie body would get used to T3 and stop trying to convert the medication to feed body).

[Decaff]

Katie just a thought here but are there no services out there for "vulnerable" people that would be able to step in and help you if you needed them? Not sure about social services but surely there must be some agency who could help you if things turn bad this winter?? Now I know we all prep for these times but if its not TEOTWAWKI I find it bizarre that our vulnerable in society have no agency they can call on to make sure they have food and are safe? A few inches of snow is dealable for anyone not disabled but life threatening for those who can't get out.



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[katilea]

Katie just a thought here but are there no services out there for "vulnerable" people that would be able to step in and help you if you needed them? Not sure about social services but surely there must be some agency who could help you if things turn bad this winter?? Now I know we all prep for these times but if its not TEOTWAWKI I find it bizarre that our vulnerable in society have no agency they can call on to make sure they have food and are safe? A few inches of snow is dealable for anyone not disabled but life threatening for those who can't get out.



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problem is I'm dependant on the local village chemist deciding whether they want to take the risk coming down my road in the van to deliver it, if they hit ice and crash it then no-one's prescriptions gets delivered until they have a new van on the road. I'm a fair distance from nearest town where all the offices and stuff tend to be, they have to come off the main roads and brave ungritted village lanes depending which direction they're coming from. Unless they'd be willing to park at end of nearest main road and trek down here in their wellies. As road outside my house is like sheet ice if it snows, freezes overnight then snows again. ..not the best spot for a wheelchair bungalow though I guess any place could potentially be snowed-in, but if the bungalow was on a main road at least I'd only need someone to clear a path up my drive so I could get onto the main cleared gritted road!

[MissAnpassad]

problem is I'm dependant on the local village chemist deciding whether they want to take the risk coming down my road in the van to deliver it, if they hit ice and crash it then no-one's prescriptions gets delivered until they have a new van on the road. I'm a fair distance from nearest town where all the offices and stuff tend to be, they have to come off the main roads and brave ungritted village lanes depending which direction they're coming from. Unless they'd be willing to park at end of nearest main road and trek down here in their wellies. As road outside my house is like sheet ice if it snows, freezes overnight then snows again. ..not the best spot for a wheelchair bungalow though I guess any place could potentially be snowed-in, but if the bungalow was on a main road at least I'd only need someone to clear a path up my drive so I could get onto the main cleared gritted road!

Can't you ask someelse to pick up your meds? I don't know how your system works, but here you can appoint certain people the right to pick up your medicines and the deacon in the local church does it for me. Have you tried the church?

[Decaff]

Good idea MissA! Also, a word in the councils ear might get you a big bag of grit so you could use it to get to the road... I would also request loudly that your road be added to the gritters route, we had that oroblem and a few calls to our local councillor got it sorted out quickly, we got fed up with being stranded at the bottom of two big hills every time it snowed!

Sorry edits were the spelling mistakes made by my tablet...

[Hedgie]

Where I am, before the winter starts, we have a voluntary list/rota of people in the town who own a four wheel drive and who would be willing to do local runs for the chemist/doctors/shop etc like picking stuff up and dropping vulnerable people to their appointments if needed. Our town council have been running this scheme now for a couple of years and apart from the 2010 winter thankfully we haven't really had to do too much. I will be putting myself forward again this year just in case.

[Brambles]

Where I am, before the winter starts, we have a voluntary list/rota of people in the town who own a four wheel drive and who would be willing to do local runs for the chemist/doctors/shop etc like picking stuff up and dropping vulnerable people to their appointments if needed. Our town council have been running this scheme now for a couple of years and apart from the 2010 winter thankfully we haven't really had to do too much. I will be putting myself forward again this year just in case.

That's brilliant. Community spirit in action.

[terrytaylor84]

I am on medication long term for bipolar disorder, I have to take mood stabilisers and anti depressants, I also suffer from chronic back pain due to lytic spondylitis and osteoarthritis. The back pain was caused by a motorbike accident, this contributes to the depression side of bipolar, not fun being only 31 and in pain 24 hours a day. I did an experiment whereby I took none of my bipolar meds for just over 6 weeks and it was an utter disaster and just showed I would be unable to cope without them. I basically got admitted to hospital and nearly got sectioned as a danger to myself. I've now taken to skipping the odd dose here and there, no more than twice a week, I take them twice a day.

[Decaff]

I am on medication long term for bipolar disorder, I have to take mood stabilisers and anti depressants, I also suffer from chronic back pain due to lytic spondylitis and osteoarthritis. The back pain was caused by a motorbike accident, this contributes to the depression side of bipolar, not fun being only 31 and in pain 24 hours a day. I did an experiment whereby I took none of my bipolar meds for just over 6 weeks and it was an utter disaster and just showed I would be unable to cope without them. I basically got admitted to hospital and nearly got sectioned as a danger to myself. I've now taken to skipping the odd dose here and there, no more than twice a week, I take them twice a day.

Just posted to you about this on another topic, please don't mess with your medications, it could endanger your life

[terrytaylor84]

I know its highly stupid. Its just what happens if they are suddenly no longer available? im sure its a situation a lot of us are in.