Health Boards
Thu-03-01-2019, 22:06 PM
Hi all,
Thanks for the warm welcome and advice - as for the private prescription, it’s because the GP was very resistant to referring me to an NHS dermatologist - this was despite having a moderate body covering and a near 100% scalp covering - so I took it through the private route due to some insurance I have from work. The problem here is that it does not cover prescriptions at all.
My dermatologist has told me that going through the nhs is an option, although it would be unlikely that I would be assigned to him due to the size of the practice at the hospital he works at (quite a lot of dermatologists). He also mentioned that before Skilarence would be prescribed that I would need to go through light therapy (which hasn’t worked very effectively in the past, and I also couldn’t be now commit to with my job which requires regular travel), followed by methotrexate and cyclosporine, Botha of which I wasn’t keen to avoid which was why i tried acitretin.
Marcus
Thanks for the warm welcome and advice - as for the private prescription, it’s because the GP was very resistant to referring me to an NHS dermatologist - this was despite having a moderate body covering and a near 100% scalp covering - so I took it through the private route due to some insurance I have from work. The problem here is that it does not cover prescriptions at all.
My dermatologist has told me that going through the nhs is an option, although it would be unlikely that I would be assigned to him due to the size of the practice at the hospital he works at (quite a lot of dermatologists). He also mentioned that before Skilarence would be prescribed that I would need to go through light therapy (which hasn’t worked very effectively in the past, and I also couldn’t be now commit to with my job which requires regular travel), followed by methotrexate and cyclosporine, Botha of which I wasn’t keen to avoid which was why i tried acitretin.
Marcus