[Ammi]

..I'm always really reluctant to criticise GPs because I've received such great care when it was needed ...but one worry I have is with repeat prescription...it may be the same when they're not repeat medication but that would be harder to identify...anyway, obviously a repeat medication is reviewed at intervals and often, someone will be prescribed an alternative because it's cheaper, which helps with a surgery's budgeting...the GPs are quite open about that... I've always found anyway..that they'll say that it's the same thing but it's cheaper..and that's fine and cool because that's understandable but then if it doesn't have the same results/doesn't 'control' like it's meant to or even in some cases, can make people feel quite ill...just things that didn't happen with the previous medication....so is what they're saying then , that actually it's not the same thing only a cheaper alternative but a completely different medication, because how could it be the same unless it 'treats' the same.../and an extreme of that could be that people could become seriously ill because they're not actually been applicably treated at all due to costs ...and they don't even realise that...