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Hepato-pancreato

Hepato-pancreato

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Had a letter informing me, due to my medical records i'm classed as at risk of becoming seriously ill. If i display symptoms of covid do this PCR test. If i test positive i'm suitable for some new treatments for coronavirus.
 
Hepato-pancreato said:
Had a letter informing me, due to my medical records i'm classed as at risk of becoming seriously ill. If i display symptoms of covid do this PCR test. If i test positive i'm suitable for some new treatments for coronavirus.
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Oh I had one as well. It's ok if you live with someone who can take you to the hospital if they choose the infusion route.
Not to sure what a neighbour would say if you asked them to take you to hospital as you positive for covid and need treatment.
Yet again hasn't been thought through.
 
Bruce Stephens said:
So sotrovimab (Xevudy) and molnupiravir. (Not sure how they decide which to offer. Maybe they give molnupiravir if you can't get somewhere to be infused?)
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So how the pluck do you get the stuff if you live on your own and self isolating?
 
Pumper_Sue said:
So how the pluck do you get the stuff if you live on your own and self isolating?
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molnupiravir is just tablets, I think, so however you'd get any other medication. (Either by someone else collecting them, or by having the pharmacy deliver. Given the special situation of this, I imagine they're geared up to get these delivered quickly somehow.)
 
Bruce Stephens said:
molnupiravir is just tablets, I think, so however you'd get any other medication. (Either by someone else collecting them, or by having the pharmacy deliver. Given the special situation of this, I imagine they're geared up to get these delivered quickly somehow.)
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I collect and my local pharmacy delivers once a week to this area. They have a massive area to cover. Pharmacy is a 20mile round trip.
 
Pumper_Sue said:
I collect and my local pharmacy delivers once a week to this area. They have a massive area to cover. Pharmacy is a 20mile round trip.
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I think there are very limited supplies of molnupiravir (and the other one's infused) and it needs to be taken within 5 days of symptoms so I presume there'll be some special arrangements? (Similarly for the Oxford trial linked from that page which just includes molnupiravir for the moment.)
 
@Pumper_Sue as I recently found out when my brother received a positive LFT result, there are parts of the process that are provided when needed rather than bombarding us all with information that we may need in months time by which time we have forgotten.
Just because you get your pharmacy deliveries on a weekly schedule does not mean there is not a method of getting tablets to you at short notice. I don’t see how different this is to a telephone GP appointment which diagnoses shingles as I experienced recently. The tablets were prescribed and delivered within an hour. Having not had a prescription beyond my diabetes paraphernalia for more than 10 years, I had no idea such things were possible but grateful they were.
 
helli said:
Just because you get your pharmacy deliveries on a weekly schedule does not mean there is not a method of getting tablets to you at short notice.
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I do not have deliveries, I collect myself 🙂 The nearest hospital for infusion is nearly a 100miles round trip. Personally after being given an antiviral off licence for my MS and it shutting my kidney's down I would not ever touch a antiviral drug again either.
 
I read somewhere yesterday that is prescribed through the hospital and dispensed via the hospital pharmacy.
 
Pumper_Sue said:
I do not have deliveries, I collect myself 🙂 The nearest hospital for infusion is nearly a 100miles round trip. Personally after being given an antiviral off licence for my MS and it shutting my kidney's down I would not ever touch a antiviral drug again either.
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Pumper_Sue - Where an individual takes certain specialist, "hospital only"/"special funding" medications, they can either collect their meds from their centre of excellence pharmacy. If not a specialist pharmaceutical courier will deliver to the relevant address. They can also deliver urgent one-off requirements, where necessary.
 
Whilst the thread in the link here is from the British Lung Foundation forum on Health Unlocked, it does "talk about" one of the new treatments for Covid, for those needing it:

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