My First Repeat Prescription

Timely as ever, Charles from MaMedica called me this morning to let me know it was time for my repeat prescription and let me know if I had any issues that I could get in touch with them. I asked about making substitutions and he explained how to go about using the system but said to call again if I needed anything.

I received my email with the link to the site as well as my patient ID number and entered the rabbit hole of choosing what I wanted if I was going to make substitutions. I opened up MedBudWiki and spent a fabulous half hour going through the different strains they said were available from MaMedica, reading the descriptions of what each strain is meant to do, as well as checking in with Stripes as she’s going to be the one dealing with the second-hand vapour.

The (so far) invisible Book-Grim has returned to Halls of Residence and as such got no say in what I ordered. It’s okay though – I promised to let her know if I check out anything other than the medical stuff and share any particular goodies.

The actual site seems fairly easy to use – you log in with your details, answer whether it’s a straight repeat or if you are wanting to make substitutions, as well as letting them know any issues/experiences you’ve had with your current prescription.

One of the reasons for my ‘small’ prescription is my previous medical history: I had a stroke and a heart attack, so they wanted to take things slowly with regard to any MC prescriptions. Most of the associated perceived risks are for those who are smoking their cannabis but obvious the clinics have to be careful and I actually really appreciated that.

Although I have experienced couch lock (oh boy, have I experienced couch lock), I haven’t actually had heart palpitations or anything like that over the course of the last six weeks. My main issue has actually been with using the CBD high MC that I received – it consistently gave me a throbbing headache when used on its own with the Mighty or the Arizer; I also found it made me cough – like a lot – and to the extent that I threw up at least once. Mixing it with the THC high MC helped a bit, but I wanted to try something different in the CBD range for that reason.

I made sure to fill in that box with anything that I thought was relevant then made my choices. And, okay, I maybe should have made a note of them but I didn’t. I did make note of the cost though – if accepted, this latest prescription is going to cost me £215. Whoops!

I did note that because of the substitutions, I may have another call where they want to discuss things and I won’t be able to pay for this until next week at the earliest, but so far, when it comes to repeat prescriptions I haven’t found this too painful. I'll keep you updated.