My doctor who wont give me any melatonin, is on holidays.... so I thought I'd use that situation to my advantage and go and see the temporary doc. for while he's away and try the get fill in doc to give me prescription for some melatonin.
So I took the empty box of my last lot of melatonin (specialist had given me a prescription last time) and simply told the replacement doc I'd run out (of cause avoiding telling him of my doctors previous refusal). **sighs all the tactics one needs to do to get ones needs met.. its pathetic**
Anyway.. the fill in who seemed like a very intellegent doctor started going on that he didnt feel comfortable giving me melatonin as it can cause prion diseases (so he was seeing it as a very dangerous drug due to this). He told me it comes from the pituatory glands of pigs and started to look for this info online, to obviously try to presuade me that i didnt really want that. He ended up not being able to find anything then and there and then gave in and gave me a script as appointment time was over.
He also went on about how melatonin is banned in England due to the prion disease it can cause.
Does anyone know if this all true about melatonin or not???? Did the doctor have things wrong???
I will do some searching for more info on this soon, thou Im still going to take melatonin even if that is the case as it does help me quite a lot when I take it. I'd rather take the change of catching a rare disease, then be suffering from not being able to get to sleep till daylight most nights.
anyway.. hurray @ i FINALLY managed to get more melatonin
So I took the empty box of my last lot of melatonin (specialist had given me a prescription last time) and simply told the replacement doc I'd run out (of cause avoiding telling him of my doctors previous refusal). **sighs all the tactics one needs to do to get ones needs met.. its pathetic**
Anyway.. the fill in who seemed like a very intellegent doctor started going on that he didnt feel comfortable giving me melatonin as it can cause prion diseases (so he was seeing it as a very dangerous drug due to this). He told me it comes from the pituatory glands of pigs and started to look for this info online, to obviously try to presuade me that i didnt really want that. He ended up not being able to find anything then and there and then gave in and gave me a script as appointment time was over.
He also went on about how melatonin is banned in England due to the prion disease it can cause.
Does anyone know if this all true about melatonin or not???? Did the doctor have things wrong???
I will do some searching for more info on this soon, thou Im still going to take melatonin even if that is the case as it does help me quite a lot when I take it. I'd rather take the change of catching a rare disease, then be suffering from not being able to get to sleep till daylight most nights.
anyway.. hurray @ i FINALLY managed to get more melatonin