Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns

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1. A huge problem for many people with epilepsy at the moment. My epilepsy nurse said a big part of her workload at the moment is helping switch patients onto drugs with less supply issues which might not work as well, cause new side effects, cause loss of seizure control temporarily. Also if you’ve switched drugs and had been safe to drive before, you have to stop for 6 months when changing drug

   It’s quite frightening.

2. So much winning.

   Meanwhile the UK still has over a million vacant jobs leftover from EU nationals leaving the UK, yet unemployment is still rising because leavers refuse to do the ex-EU jobs – just like everyone predicted.

   And now the Government has no choice but to hand out visas to hundreds of thousands of non-EU nationals to do the jobs to increase supply and prevent inflation spiking – just like everyone predicted.

   Why aren’t leavers picking berries on farms? Or working in care homes wiping British Bums with their British hands? You told us you were fed up of foreigners taking your jobs so why aren’t you doing them now they’re free?

3. Funny how it is always somehow Brexit, Corona, the environment and never the gutter tier governments inability to actually plan forward and govern.

4. My pharmacy hasn’t been able to get ahold of my needles for like two months, my endo is lecturing me about changing my needles everytime I inject – but then has no advice if I run out? I’m dreading there being an insulin shortage.

5. I’m incredibly fortunate in that my antidepressant brand happens to be made here – and locally. I take quite a small dose, but even a minor change or switch in brand knocks me for six. It must be *horrendous* right now for people with more serious illnesses but similar sensitivities.

6. My OH has been in ill health for the last 18 months, herniated disks and an ulcer bleed. Every month her script is short of items. It’s very frightening for her and me.

7. Couldn’t get my dads heart tablets without driving to 4 different pharmacies. Brexit has bought literally zero benefits. Even as someone who was against it I thought there would be something.

8. I no longer have a pancreas so I rely on Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT) to digest my food. Basically one of the jobs the pancreas does is provide a bile rich in certain enzymes that mixes with your food in your small intestine which allows your body to break down and digest fat.

   I have to take PERT medication every time I eat anything that contains fat, if I don’t and consume fat then I am in for a very painful and unpleasant few days as my body tries and fails to deal with the fat.

   Recently I cannot source any of my PERT medication as every pharmacy says that there isn’t any stock available to order, so now I’m on an enforced zero fat diet until I can find some more medication. Far from ideal 😩

9. > “The report shows that the EU Exit has not caused the recent spike in medicine shortages”

   Quote from Nuffield which is the report the article is referring too

10. Haha, article in ‘The Guardian’ says something about Brexit is bad. Colour me surprised 😂