Which pharmacy can give antibiotics without prescription

[Sue]

I find the self diagnosis thing  a bit worrying.

I once nearly died because a hospital  doctor misdiagnosed a ruptured ovarian cyst and peritonitis as food poisoning.

It was lucky I hadn't initially diagnosed it as food poisoning myself and assumed  the sickness and pain would go away. I called my GP, who called an ambulance.

I ended up having an emergency operation in a different hospital, the first hospital not having scanning facilities (this was in the olden days) 🙄

Edited December 28, 2024 by Sue

[Penguin68]

I remember reading that there were a number of illnesses (presumably ones most likely to be bacterial in origin) that pharmacists were particularly pointed at, I think, UTIs, tonsillitis, and some others. Perhaps the symptoms of the declared illness (which may have been recurrent) fell into those categories. If you've had something before you probably do recognise the symptoms, and may well be able to relatively accurately self-diagnose. 

[EDmummy]

I didn’t self diagnose. I had symptoms, I described these to a medical professional and they gave me antibiotics and instructions on changes to look out for and reminder to ring 111. I will now refrain from discussing my personal medical situation on a public forum. For many people, the ability to get antibiotics for a very small number of conditions is a wonderful thing when getting an appointment with a GP is almost impossible or you get one and they don’t even bother to see you. 

[Sue]

3 hours ago, EDmummy said:

I didn’t self diagnose. I had symptoms, I described these to a medical professional and they gave me antibiotics and instructions on changes to look out for and reminder to ring 111. 

Forgive me if I misunderstood.

I asked you if the pharmacist had diagnosed what was wrong  and you said no, you had, you were a grown up and knew your body.

If you did not in fact self diagnose, I wouldn't have expressed my concern on here, nor the reasons for my concern.

[Jellybeanz]

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