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UK pharmacists say epilepsy medication shortages have reached ‘crisis point’
euronews (in English)
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23/01/2024
A national shortage of some epilepsy medications in the UK is putting patients' safety at risk.
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You don't know how many epilepsy fits or attacks a person can have or how severe their epilepsy is
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because obviously they've been taking it every single day for so many years
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and if it just stops one day or even if they miss a dose, it's a big deal.
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It might be that we need a strategic reserve storage of drugs.
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We might have to bring drugs over from other parts of the world as an emergency to avoid this.
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If I'm being truthfully honest, I'm scared to know that,
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okay, I might not get no medication for a few weeks or a couple of months.
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I don't know, there's times when I've had to call five, six different pharmacies
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and the more you're calling a different pharmacy and you're not hearing what you need to hear,
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you're getting more and more frustrated.
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So if I don't have my medication, I could have multiple seizures
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and that could lead to hospitalisation and at worst case, death.
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