So I switched GPs a week and a half ago, but my skin is acting like it lose the plot. I keep getting several cysts a week, and when one disappears another one pops up. By some sort of witchcraft I managed to get a telephone appointment with my GP on Tuesday (meant to be around 3pm, but it's a good thing I was actually awake when she rang in the morning instead
) and she agrees to make a dermatology referral and gives me another antibiotic prescription in the meantime. Turns out I keep the same named pharmacy for my prescriptions to go to electronically so I don't even have to scrabble around to find someone to pick it up OR work out where it needs to be sent.
Now for the fun part. After my mental health crises a few years back, I don't actually pick up my own prescriptions, at least not for my regular meds. I could probably get away with picking up an antibiotic prescription but honestly it causes more confusion for everyone else and I don't have the patience for that. It does mean, however, that if I tell them on Tuesday there's going to be a prescription waiting for me at the same pharmacy as before, it'd be nice if they'd pick it up.
Or if I tell them that on the Wednesday, it'd be nice of them to pick it up.
Or if I have to tell them that on the Thursday, well.
Now, since they come to me in the evening and not in the morning, I'm in a bit of a pickle. Do I hope that they'll bring it on Friday, and risk them NOT doing it and then probably not getting it til Monday or even Tuesday? Nope, no can do. I rang up the CMHT, and my care coordinator wasn't in but they said if it was urgent it could go to the duty worker. Yeah, I'll go with urgent. I apologised because it's obviously not mental health related but I'm 99% certain my care plan says I'm not to pick up meds at all. The antibiotics turned up this evening, and I plan on somehow getting my thanks across to the duty worker. I know they're only antibiotics. but seriously, it's a good thing I'm not actually sick.
tl;dr - people aren't picking up my meds on time no matter how many times I mention it. This needs a new solution, because I'm sick of doing this these past months.