It annoys me too, along the lines of prescribers who advise users that "BC brand X takes [anything over 7 days] to become effective" because, to me anyway, it taints the rest of their advice.
People here are encouraged to use pharmacies for medical advice, but if they're just going to dish out arse-covering medical platitudes then it's pointless, you know? Yes, of course the majority of people needing advice will need standard issue "Does A interact with B?" or "How much paracetamol (acetaminophen) can an adult take in 24 hours?" type of stuff, but people are not made in factories with set configs.
We've been fighting our local pharmacist for 4 years over fluconazole (one dose YI tablet) of all things. We call him the 'P*ssy Police'.
As two women in a sexual relationship, if one gets a YI we both do. We also both have chronic conditions that lower our immunity, and mean we frequently require antibiotics. Usually if you're ill enough to need antibiotics, you're ill enough to make the mental connection "Oh shit I'll get a yeastie, better ask for an rx of fluconazole." Oh and she's the only one who drives, as I'm too gimped up and rarely leave the bed, let alone the house, so she does all of our prescription pick-ups and OTC med buying.
This pharmacist honestly seems to keep a mental log of when women buy fluconazole. Yes I know that frequent YIs out of NOWHERE can signal things like diabetes, or the acquisition of HIV, and that apparent YIs can actually be nastier things, so there's a limit of 2x OTC fluc. per woman per year as a *general* rule, but PPP (P*ssy Police Pharmacist) is a "rules is rules" guy. The two other pharmacists, and the technicians, are happy to take a history and use their judgement of us as *gasp* individual people, because the 'two doses a year' thing is a guideline, not a concrete ruling from the Drug Lords of Above. Not him though...
It got to the point of my lovely, sweet, calm little Lisa screaming "We're women, women with vaginas, who have sex with each other. Of COURSE I need two doses. Should we split a dose? You WOULD say 'See your GP' because you're not the one with the raw, itchy [expletive deleted] who'll have to wait two weeks for an appointment."
Now it's easier to ask my mother to buy it and travel 25 miles to get it, or make a pre-emptive strike and ask McFab GP for a spare to keep in the bathroom cabinet. Kind of defeats the object of the concept of OTC really!
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Date: 2011-03-21 08:57 pm (UTC)People here are encouraged to use pharmacies for medical advice, but if they're just going to dish out arse-covering medical platitudes then it's pointless, you know? Yes, of course the majority of people needing advice will need standard issue "Does A interact with B?" or "How much paracetamol (acetaminophen) can an adult take in 24 hours?" type of stuff, but people are not made in factories with set configs.
We've been fighting our local pharmacist for 4 years over fluconazole (one dose YI tablet) of all things. We call him the 'P*ssy Police'.
As two women in a sexual relationship, if one gets a YI we both do. We also both have chronic conditions that lower our immunity, and mean we frequently require antibiotics. Usually if you're ill enough to need antibiotics, you're ill enough to make the mental connection "Oh shit I'll get a yeastie, better ask for an rx of fluconazole." Oh and she's the only one who drives, as I'm too gimped up and rarely leave the bed, let alone the house, so she does all of our prescription pick-ups and OTC med buying.
This pharmacist honestly seems to keep a mental log of when women buy fluconazole. Yes I know that frequent YIs out of NOWHERE can signal things like diabetes, or the acquisition of HIV, and that apparent YIs can actually be nastier things, so there's a limit of 2x OTC fluc. per woman per year as a *general* rule, but PPP (P*ssy Police Pharmacist) is a "rules is rules" guy. The two other pharmacists, and the technicians, are happy to take a history and use their judgement of us as *gasp* individual people, because the 'two doses a year' thing is a guideline, not a concrete ruling from the Drug Lords of Above. Not him though...
It got to the point of my lovely, sweet, calm little Lisa screaming "We're women, women with vaginas, who have sex with each other. Of COURSE I need two doses. Should we split a dose? You WOULD say 'See your GP' because you're not the one with the raw, itchy [expletive deleted] who'll have to wait two weeks for an appointment."
Now it's easier to ask my mother to buy it and travel 25 miles to get it, or make a pre-emptive strike and ask McFab GP for a spare to keep in the bathroom cabinet. Kind of defeats the object of the concept of OTC really!