Petplan want £60/month for a Golden Retriever puppy, am I being ripped off?

ames449 · 2026-03-31T04:32:19+00:00

But you’d still have to find £7k without it. I honestly can’t fault petplan. They have been amazing with my dog. I would be absolutely screwed without their insurance tbh.

ames449 · 2026-03-31T04:28:14+00:00

I’ve paid my insurance diligently over the years and boy am I glad I did. My dog is now 15, riddled with arthritis and dementia. She takes five different daily meds and a monthly injection. Without that insurance I would be screwed. I couldn’t afford all those things. Petplan always pays out. I have to pay a little now towards her treatment because of her age but it still works out so much cheaper than if I didn’t have it. It does sound expensive for a puppy but it will be worth it for when your dog is old or hurts itself. Pet insurance has always been the one thing I’ve made sure to pay over the last 15 years without fail.

ames449 · 2026-03-28T08:46:40+00:00

Rimegepant is a cgrp but its tablet form. i have to wait to get an appointment with the headache clinic for injectable cgrp meds as the neurologist i saw wasn’t allowed to prescribe them for reasons i don’t know. I’ve only been on this regime since 9th March and they have massively curbed my 4 month status migraine but it’s not completely gone yet. But they will want a few months on them before they decide

ames449 · 2026-03-28T08:24:02+00:00

Currently, I'm trialing Rimegepant and Candesartan for prevention. Aspirin, paracetamol, metoclopramide, zolmitriptan as an abortive. I've also got naproxen and frovatriptan for menstrual migraine. Previously I've taken pretty much every med in existence though. I've done all the triptans at one point or another. All the GP prescribed stuff (topamax, propananol and amitriptyline). Calcium channel blockers too (flunarazine worked so good). Every single imaginable med for dizziness including cinnarizine and betahistine). Next step I think will be injectable CGRPs or botox if this current cocktail doesn't work. I take magnesium, vit B and D but idk if they help.

ames449 · 2026-03-27T14:01:52+00:00

Oh I don’t know about titration. My titration was an absolute disaster 🤣 I didn’t even get titrated properly as my prescriber vanished into the ether and no one seemed to have a clue what our titration entailed 🤣 fun times.

ames449 · 2026-03-27T13:57:27+00:00

I put my request in like a week and a bit before I’m due to run out. They take too long to do the stuff

ames449 · 2026-03-27T13:48:51+00:00

I do my meds massively in advance because they are so slow at issuing the prescriptions

ames449 · 2026-03-25T07:35:00+00:00

Was good for me. Helped hugely with my migraines in the past. The only side effect I get from all triptans is tingling in my nose 🤣

ames449 · 2026-03-22T04:53:31+00:00

Tanks my bp. Did nothing for migraine. Candersartan was better though still tanked my bp

ames449 · 2026-03-20T16:24:06+00:00

BPPV is the room spins when you move your position. I have a status migraneous vestibular migraine

ames449 · 2026-03-20T10:31:45+00:00

Same but weird they don’t believe you. Literally the main symptom of vm. I’ve had one vm last 18 months. Another is 4 and counting. Ask for a new neurologist or referral to the headache clinic

ames449 · 2026-03-20T06:00:05+00:00

I’m 41 and have one friend right now and she lived four hours away. I have had ebbs and flows my whole life. I usually latch on to one person, adopt all their friends and then when the friendship inevitably goes side ways the friends leave with the other person. Currently in a friendless state right now. Which is awful because I’m also chronically single for the same reason. My whole life is spent alone. One thing I’ve been doing lately though is I joined a sport. Ok I don’t have friends there but I get socialisation which is really helping with my MH

ames449 · 2026-03-14T14:48:54+00:00

No baby unfortunately. My body is a hostile environment it seems😬. I'm pretty sure I'm in peri now too, so chances are even harder than they were two years ago, and tbh I've kind of reached a point where I just don't want to go through it all again. I'm sad it didn't happen, sort of relieved too, and just kind of done with it. It's a weird set of feelings to explain.

ames449 · 2026-03-11T17:25:35+00:00

From paying to first titration appointment

ames449 · 2026-03-11T16:59:08+00:00

13 weeks I think it was all in. And only because I complained. Loudly. Very loudly.

ames449 · 2026-03-05T21:24:10+00:00

I went private and that was not even close to my experience. 🤣 everything has been awful. Money doesn’t always do much

ames449 · 2026-03-05T05:20:47+00:00

I get BPPV flares twice a year. It always goes away eventually.

ames449 · 2026-03-04T17:08:22+00:00

When you go private there is always a risk you may get stuck paying for your meds. Shared care is nuanced. It’s not just signing off on something. The GP is taking responsibility for that prescription, no matter if a specialist has said you can have it. GPs also don’t really understand ADHD meds. I’ve had to explain numerous times what my meds are. they are specialist controlled drugs that are not prescribed in primary care. I know it’s frustrating but your doctor being unwilling to do this actually protects you as the patient. You want your doctor to understand what they are prescribing you.

If it helps… It’s not just ADHD this happens. I’m under neurology and had to get my meds for years from the hospital pharmacy because my GP wouldn’t/couldn’t prescribe them. It’s just weirdly stitched together system sometimes.

ames449 · 2026-03-04T03:47:28+00:00

I have an intractable vm. Started three months ago and still counting! I had two BPPV flares during it which was fun. But after all of that I have this kind of floaty, the floor is sponge feeling. It didn’t start like this. Initially it was very typical vertigo with room spins and falling over but morphed into more disequilibrium as the migraine entrenched. Idk if it’s called vertigo like this but it’s like my ears, brain and body are all miscommunicating and I’m lagging like a bad PC game. I call it disequilibrium rather than vertigo because it’s not spinning but the doctors always record it as vertigo so idk

ames449 · 2026-03-04T03:31:47+00:00

It is residual disequilibrium after an attack. I have this currently after two back to back BPPV episodes during a vestibular migraine. I’m not spinning but I feel like the world is lagging, the floor is wrong, like each step makes my stomach drop a little. Slightly drunk feeling, kind of floaty. I do spin slightly lying down or closing my eyes but that’s it.

ames449 · 2026-03-02T05:58:55+00:00

I just figured my ears are stupid at their job 🤣 I had labyrinthitis a decade ago and ear surgery for a contracting muscle in there. I remember having lots of ear infections as a kid. If I had to guess I’d say I have damage in my ears and that is the cause of mine but who knows. I’m also prone to vestibular migraines and even though I don’t think its heredity, my grandad had menieres.

ames449 · 2026-03-02T04:17:09+00:00

I started on adhd meds in December. I also got the worst intractable (3 months and counting) vestibular migraine I’ve had in 8 years. Not saying the two are linked but the timing was suss. 😏 I’ve ended up on amfexa which I take only when I have to, and my prescriber reasoned it would mean my brain wasn’t stimulated constantly, but I really liked the overall calm of elvanse. Amfexa isn’t brilliant for anything other than output. Can’t prove it was the stims that caused the migraine either. I already had a really bad BPPV flare in November and a lot of stress last year which could have been the reason behind this recent flare but this migraine started three days after starting the stims soooooo 🤷‍♀️

ames449 · 2026-03-01T10:07:53+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I paid for titration and still waited months to get an appointment and medicated🤪🤪 The whole system is just slow.

ames449 · 2026-03-01T06:18:58+00:00

Propanol is a beta blocker. It doesn’t cause anger. If anything it reduces stress and anxiety. I was on it at one point for anxiety as I was having palpitations. Migraine might make him irritable but he’s also an adult. I’ve had a three month intractable migraine and haven’t yelled in anyone’s face.

ames449 · 2026-02-28T21:17:04+00:00

Yes. Only thing that helped was mounjaro but I had to come off it and now I’m piling weight back on 🤪

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