From dvd8n:
[Quote: "My wife suffers from B12 deficiency due to an inability to absorb it orally. The consequences of B12 deficiency can be serious and irreversible. When the time for her injection came round she was denied one and offered tablets. When she explained the situation on the phone, the nurse said to her (and I **** you not) "Well what do you want me to do about it". But again it could be addressed privately for £250."]
Holland and Barrett sell oral sprays that apparently work for those of us who need injections. Tablets just don't work for us. I got a couple of bottles just in case my surgery stopped giving the injections but I was lucky, I kept receiving mine. Many people are having the same problems as your wife; their surgery has stopped treatment.
Has your wife checked out the Perniscious Anaemia Society website? It's full of information for people suffering with serious B12 deficiency.
I hope she gets her injections soon. I hate to think of the symptoms she's likely suffering due to not getting them. I know what mine are like in the run up to an injection.
Thanks for your concern.
It was, in all, a story of intransigence and bloody mindedness.
In literally the same week that my wife was being refused her injection, her friend in the neighboring health board was being given hers. The annoying thing was that my wife had a supply of vials of B12 but neither the medical centre nor any chemist in the area would supply a syringe. I was at the point of going to the local needle exchange and pretending to be a drug addict in order to get a syringe so that a friendly retired nurse could give her the injection when she found a private practice that would do the injection legitimately. For £250. So we paid up.
By the time that the next injection came round the medical centre had reopened. The nurse who gave the injection was outraged. She said that the medical centre had been closed so that the practice nurses could be redeployed to a local nursing home. Seemingly so many nurses were redeployed there that the nurses outnumbered the patients and they spent two months playing with their phones.
What with that and my dentistry problems and a few other things that I've not gone into, the clap for the NHS was pretty half hearted in our street. Not the fault of the medical professionals, of course, who were and are doing their best in the face of administrative failures.