carophie04
Well-Known Member
Have just read the e-mail from Diabetes UK regarding the new drug for T2 called dapagliflozin (Forxigatm) which sounds good as it helps with weight loss as well as controlling BS. The problem is - not only with Diabetics - new drugs are introduced by the drug companies which could help thousands of people with various illnesses today but try and get your GP to prescribe them for you and you are hitting you head against a brick wall, purely because of the cost. I am sure that doctors have had a Government directive to prescribe the cheapest medication possible for whatever problems people have with their health. I was taken off my normal blood pressure med and put on Ramipril (a lot cheaper) but within two weeks I had broken out in a most unpleasant skin eruption called Lichen Planus, immediately taken off the Ramipril and put back on Nebivolol, and packed off to see a consultant Dermatologist costing the NHS far more in consultations and treatment than if I had been left with the meds that suited me even if they were a bit dearer.
I just hope that this new medication for T2 Diabetics will not be denied to us for the same reasons. We already have to buy our own test strips to save the NHS money since GPs will not prescribe them. What is the point of scientific research into better drugs if when they are produced we are to be denied them - unless of course you can go private and pay for them! Same old story of one rule for one side of society and one for the other.
I just hope that this new medication for T2 Diabetics will not be denied to us for the same reasons. We already have to buy our own test strips to save the NHS money since GPs will not prescribe them. What is the point of scientific research into better drugs if when they are produced we are to be denied them - unless of course you can go private and pay for them! Same old story of one rule for one side of society and one for the other.