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Label on the box of 28 tablets from my doctor reads, "Take 6 tablets as a single dose once daily for 5 days." 🤔
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.LB - yes. It was a complicated prescription for steroids. 8 a day for 14 days then 6 a day for 14 days, 5 a day etc ..... down to 1 a day for 14 days together for a stomach-lining tablet at 1 a day for the whole 2 months. She worked out the total number of steroid tablets required, divided by 28 (per box) and gave me the appropriate number of boxes plus the remainder still in their foil. The same for the stomach-liners.
By post...are you sure two tiny pills aren't in the bag/envelope...easy to miss.
This is a reason that we've avoided using remote by-post pharmacies - if there is a problem with a script, our local pharmacist simply rings the health centre for clarification.
Probably doesn't help that some pills come in boxes of 28 and some in 30.
Ours are prescribed by the box and can be prescribed for up to a year for long term meds. You can by all at once or how you like, monthly 2 at a time or what suits you. Prescription sent to you by email or text and to NHS equivalent. You show message that has access code on it to chemist they give you the meds
I was on Prednisolone for almost 8 months last year for PMR, like you gradually reducing by one pill every so many weeks.
I was just given a bag with so many packs of 28 foiled pills, some 5mg in the beginning, then later on some 1mg so I could taper of the dosage as well as the number of pills.
The GP just ordered more when I was getting low.