"Dangerous!!"

I have been under turning Point for years, gradually reducing my prescription strength. I had a serious accident and ended up being prescribed oral morphine from the hospital/GP for 6 weeks which was stopped without notice for over a week until my GP prescribed me slow release morphine instead.

I made a rather big mistake of being truthful with Turning Point and telling them that when the morphine was stopped without notice I really struggled and had to take addition methadone especially as i also suffer from osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and lueakeamia on top of the serious accident that involved degloving my foot plus large lacerations which caused a lot of nerve damage.

I agreed with them that if they increased my methadone I would cancel my slow release morphine from my GP.

A few days before my holiday I find out that not only have they not increased my methadone but they have written to my GP making out that I am buying street drugs to get high and advising him to stop my prescriptions.

I spoke to this woman for all of 5 minutes yet she now thinks she knows me better than my consultants. I thought being truthful was the best option but now I realise that was a grave mistake.

If this is how they treat their patients then I can only think that they are trying to push them onto street drugs to give them a reason to be needed.

Seriously think carefully before engaging with Turning Point. They may claim to have your best interests at heart but their behaviour suggests otherwise!!!