10-13-2016, 02:11 PM
(10-13-2016, 11:22 AM)TommyGun Wrote: Don't remember if i said it only gets prescribed in 5mg doses,just going on people i have met IRL or on forums,docs are exteremley hesitant to prescribe any dose these days,if folk are on diaz then they are being cut down fast.
They will prescribe other meds that can be addictive but tell you they are not.
My doc told me that the surgery does not prescribe anyone cod pks or any benzos.
Was in there a while ago,met someone who was prescribed 1 Z tablet to help sleep.1!.
So why does the n h s have all these meds but won't prescribe them for genuine health problems?
I don't remember exactly either. However, I visited a pharmacy in a big city yesterday and they did have diazepam in 10mg boxes. I suspect they might deal with more cases of high level of dependence where 5mg pills wouldn't be practical ("take twenty of these..."). But I've also heard people are made to cut down real fast. Forget the Ashton schedule unless you have a private doctor or other sources. I guess that's why many of us are here.
That's astonishing your surgery doesn't prescribe any codeine. Although I asked mine to prescribe codeine rather than co-codamol and they wouldn't do it. So I get my 60mg of codeine, but mixed up with nasty paracetamol (which is such a mild painkiller, I can't see it has any therapeutic value alongside 60mg of codeine).
The other weird thing is I'm allowed one dosage of tramadol per day, which is much more effective and doesn't make me sleepy. The rest of the time I have to take the co-codamol. I've asked just to be switched to tramadol. Nope. But it would be so much simpler and work better. The fact it is a controlled drug seems to trump everything else.
1 z to go to sleep - wow! I really hope they enjoyed their one night of sleep.