Heads Up UK People: Repeat Dispensing

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

This may be old knowledge, but I didn't know about it so some others might not too. I don't know if this is country-wide - it may just be in England, but if your PCT is one of those annoying ones that doesn't do 3 month prescriptions for HRT (do they think they're going to grow back?), and you're sick of the rigmarole of having to handle repeat prescriptions, even if your pharmacy handles them, read on.

My GP put me on something called Repeat Dispensing today. Basically, they write out a year's supply of repeat prescriptions at once, but time-delayed, and then give them all to you at once. You then take them to the pharmacy and they dispense the first one as normal, and keep the rest on file.

28 (or however long yours lasts) days later, you go back into the pharmacy and ask for the next one. They give you the drugs there and then, with no need to contact you GP to get the repeat signed off.

When your year's supply runs out, go and see you GP again and they'll give you another 12 months worth.

Thought this might be useful info.

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[aubreycolors.livejournal.com]

I understand that not everybody will agree with me on this.

http://www.khsltv.com/content/localnews/story/Transgender-Woman-Issued-Marriage-License-in/UifxL5rQEEyn1iWMzoFlpg.cspx

Could somebody please tell me why this is on the news? What is the point?
That is other than being sensationalism?

There is just so much in it that I really dislike.

"“What most people don’t realize is because I take female hormones I can’t function as a male anyway, it’s more of a lesbian relationship.”"

Why? Why the need to say this? It just sounds like she started talking and then didn't know when to stop.

Watching the video, Rebecca Love looks like she's falling asleep whenever she's talking to the camera.

To me, it just doesn't seem very beneficial to other trans* people in general. It seems more like a "look at us!! we found a loophole!! and we're going to broadcast it on TV because it's all about us!!"

"Suck it up." Is that all I can do?

[scissorplay.livejournal.com]

Hey all, I'm Neil, male identified (ftm), 15 and pre-everything. I've yet to come out to my parents about any of this--the questioning, the experimenting, the self-discovery--so far I've gone through this process on my own, keeping them happily oblivious. Through an article I wrote in the school newspaper on LGBTs and a visit to the school counselor on an unrelated issue, I've suddenly found myself surrounded by people standing by me as support and accepting me for who I am. The closest person to me, a teacher, and I were talking just this evening after school and she said some things that were worrying and alarming.

( Well, just suck it up. )