Please help, leaving in an hour and need advice! - Page 2

xpatchx · Feb 28th, 2010, 17:01 PM

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Originally Posted by LankyDoodle

My GP also struggled to find eardrops suitable for me to use during pregnancy and said you have to be extremely careful about self-medicating in pregnancy.

My husband's boss's wife is a medical receptionist and told me to take a certain sleeping tablet when I started suffering with insomnia... I had an appt with my GP anyway, and mentioned the insomnia and what L had told me to do/take and he gasped in horror and said I should not self-medicate during pregnancy, and should only take things prescribed by him - a qualified doctor! He actually said 'leave the doctoring to the doctors!' when I told him a medical receptionist had recommended it!

Of course paracetomol and things like that are fine, but if you have a particular illness like an ear infection, it's best to chat to a doctor. Have you tried NHS Direct? They do have doctors who will chat to you on the phone, but it takes a while for them to get back to you.

I thought about NHS but the problem is I know whats wrong with my ears, I know that they're infected and why they're infected, it's just the only medicine I can get for it has to be prescribed, which obviously they can't do on teh phone ='(

loopy_lou · Feb 28th, 2010, 17:02 PM

personaly i think you should head to A&E and get seen by a doc there !!

Hope it all works out for you!!

Feb 28th, 2010, 17:02 PM	#12
loopy_lou Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Cambridgeshire Posts: 2,656	personaly i think you should head to A&E and get seen by a doc there !! Hope it all works out for you!!

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