Mostly housebound, as we all know. Unexpected can happen! Is it acceptable to ask for spare? Or would this be frowned upon. Is there a way around this. 
6.5 years ago cerebellum stroke. Unfortunately no improvement. Like many enjoy reading about you all. But struggling to participate. Love David.
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Hello David - nice to meet you.
I believe any medication you need as a matter of course should be available to you on repeat prescription and you should never run out - you can always order the next batch within the permitted lead times. As an example, I have to request medication for my Mum and if I try to order before it becomes due the system doesnât allow it.
There is a safety window that makes sure you get the medication when it is needed or due. The only time when this has been a problem (and it has been a problem) is when the medication is out of stock at the supplier and the pharmacist fails to spot the delay. In this situation, you have to chase it up or keep on top of it and request a substitute if necessary.
I hope this helps, but I feel I am not totally sure what sort of emergency supply you are looking for and so cannot comment further.
Finally, whether it is acceptable to ask for spare or not, if you feel it would make you feel comfortable or less anxious then surely you can ask. Is it frowned upon? I donât know, I have never tried it, but if I had and it was, I would say so what? Itâs your peace of mind youâre thinking of.
You can always check with your GP on this and see what advice they give wrt emergency stock.
Also, you might need to consider the expiry dates of medicines. As an example, we have been prescribed a medicine that has a shelf life of two months after which it must not be used and has to be discarded.
In such situations, emergency stock is not going to help if it becomes unusable due to its shelf life.
Hope you get the peace of mind you are looking for and hope you start to see some improvements soon 
Namaste|
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When I have been going on holiday I have always been able to get extra meds but in my experience they are reluctant to give out extra due to the amount that potentially could get wasted. If your order via the NHS App it wonât allow you to order too early.
What I have done, over time, is move my repeat ordering date forward by a couple of days- to get them in line with my hubbyâs meds & save multiple trips to the pharmacy. This has given me a buffer of a week to 10 days of meds. As it happens I forgot to order my blood thinners this time so that buffer came in extremely useful.
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I get where youâre coming from and I keep a reserve because I forget to order or collect. With the best will in the world, we can forget to renew our prescription or as I did last week, forget to pick up my prescription. Setting reminders anywhere might sound the useful way forward, but for some stroke brains, even that can be forgotten. Getting out in winter in bad weather is also off-putting.
Keeping a small reserve may seem like a false sense of security to some people. But not everyone is technologically minded for signing up to Patient Access, NHS app and the like. Some people still take their paper renewal prescription and drop them in the little post box at their surgery then go home and to wait until its ready to be dispensed. And you can easily forget to phone up the chemist to find out when theyâd be ready. So for those kind of reasons Iâd say it does to at least ask.
I always keep a weeks worth as backup. As all my meds are on repeat prescription and I order them online. The sight keeps track of the renewal dates so its just a matter of scrolling through to see which ones are up next. I can only order a week in advance, used to be 2 weeks but now theyâre super efficient with dispensing them that they only give us one weekâs grace now. And still I can forget to order or collect 
Whether itâs right or wrong doesnât matter because what does matter most is that you have the meds to take. But seeing as you are mainly housebound David, your chemist may be able to offer you a delivery service for free. I know ours does for several of our elderly neighbours. They can even sort your medications into daily dosages if you ask.
Itâs well worth giving your regular chemist a ring and get them to sort it all out for you. For peace of mind itâs worth a phonecall 
Lorraine
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I had been wondering where you had got to but glad to hear you are still lurking about. I think the only way to have spare meds is to ask for an emergency supply and you will get a small amount to cover however long and, I guess, you could put this aside for if you run out and canât get a back to back repeat.
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Peace of mindđ. Yes I belive partly unnecessary anxiety. Love David.
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Yes my wife orders and collects meds. Love David.
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Thanks, reminder notes everywhere for me now. love David.
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Hi Rups, ( club memberđ.) Yes still here. Pleased to read your improvements. Hopefully your new home possibly easier for you, after bit of work? Love David.
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Being housebound, we always ask for GP home visits and we get our medicines delivered (I think free delivery of [prescription] medications is now standard, but I am happy to be corrected if I am wrong).
Internet access to the surgery is hit and miss, but their online medication order system is very good and I use it for Mumâs medicines.
I use the phone (as a preference) to book appointments and the GP sometimes does phone consultations to avoid a home visit. They like us to use their online GP appointment system but it is almost always unavailable and so we just phone.
Since your wife orders and collects, that really just leaves with how to get a âsafetyâ stock for peace of mind.
Final thought, if you miss taking medicines it is not always a problem, but it does depend on the medicines and conditions being treated.
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Hi David, We use a large, online pharmacy, Great service, no mistakes, unlike our local pharmacy. Weâve got a few spare from a time when we started with them and some overlap occurred. They seemed to think fine, worth holding on to. Newver know whats round the cornerâŚ
My wife had a bleed into the cerebellum nearly two years ago. Whilst slow and gradual improvements do seem to be happening, I still care 24/7 for her and I canât imagine her partaking in online discussion such as this! Far too complicatedâŚNor just reading it either! We get out and about and enjoy life, when dark nights and 12-14 hours sleep allow!
Good luck with it allâŚeveryoneâs journey is so individualâŚwhat next!!!???
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I just started ordering mine a few days earlier each time to build up a buffer, now I order mine about 3 weeks before they run out and not had a problem. I will definitely be ordering them early over Christmas.
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Hi, my wife is my support. Cerebellum, stroke 6.5 Years ago, mostly housebound now. Understand sleeping. Idealy but for me 2 hours, mid day. Love David.
Thanks, think anixiety and overthinking, with me. Love David.
Here in Wales, pharmacy home delivery no longer free. Now, five quid, so I moved to be in walking distance to pharmacy
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Oh dear 
But wait.
Cost of prescription delivery five quid.
Cost of moving home to be closer to pharmacy, thousands of quids and not to mention the quality of the home.
Am I missing something or is that not a very strange reason to move home?
Rupert - you are even more eccentric than I first thought
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The only thing it cost me to move was my sanity, a small price to pay for not having to fork out for medication delivery.
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