Comments on: NHS to pay for homeopathy and acupuncture treatments http://www.gotosee.co.uk/healthnews/2009/11/nhs-homeopathy-acupuncture-treatment/ Alternative medicine and complementary therapy news Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:27:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Derek http://www.gotosee.co.uk/healthnews/2009/11/nhs-homeopathy-acupuncture-treatment/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Derek Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:15:10 +0000 http://www.gotosee.co.uk/healthnews/?p=1213#comment-690 Hi Carol, I understand your frustration as I'm in a similar position. My primary care trust doesn't offer any complementary therapies so I'm forced to go private. There just isn't enough money in the NHS pot to help everyone who wants to go a different route with their treatment. Have you tried a consultation with a local Homeopath? They're usually free and it will give you more idea of whether the therapy can help with your problem and if you can afford a few treatments. Good luck Hi Carol,

I understand your frustration as I’m in a similar position. My primary care trust doesn’t offer any complementary therapies so I’m forced to go private. There just isn’t enough money in the NHS pot to help everyone who wants to go a different route with their treatment.

Have you tried a consultation with a local Homeopath? They’re usually free and it will give you more idea of whether the therapy can help with your problem and if you can afford a few treatments.

Good luck

]]> By: Carol Firman http://www.gotosee.co.uk/healthnews/2009/11/nhs-homeopathy-acupuncture-treatment/comment-page-1/#comment-683 Carol Firman Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:29:41 +0000 http://www.gotosee.co.uk/healthnews/?p=1213#comment-683 My GP has been trying to refer me to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital which is an NHS hospital within the UCLH group. The Surrey PCT have refused to fund it on the basis that it is a complementary therapy. However, I was treated in a Health Clinic which was NHS funded 18 years ago, for the same problem. It worked then and I know it would work again. All my GP can offer me is another anti-depressant to try and control my anxiety, plus cognitive behavioural therapy/counselling. I have been down that route before and at the time you are having the CBT it helps a little, but I think that this therapy mainly consists of listening for a while and then patting the patient on the back and sending them off with so many sheets of information to treat yourself that you begin to get confused. I do not want to take another anti-depressant as I feel that I am swallowing a suicide pill and they can cause physical symptoms that I am not prepared to put up with. My anxiety causes me all sorts of physical symptoms and my quality of life is nil, I can't do or enjoy anything and my family is fed up with me. I know that homeopathy is something I can believe in and yet I am not allowed to have this on the NHS, even though the Dept of Health stated that these therapies were going to be allowed I do not want to take another chemical which could cause more side effects and is a lottery situation which might or not work. What can I do??? My GP has been trying to refer me to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital which is an NHS hospital within the UCLH group. The Surrey PCT have refused to fund it on the basis that it is a complementary therapy. However, I was treated in a Health Clinic which was NHS funded 18 years ago, for the same problem. It worked then and I know it would work again. All my GP can offer me is another anti-depressant to try and control my anxiety, plus cognitive behavioural therapy/counselling. I have been down that route before and at the time you are having the CBT it helps a little, but I think that this therapy mainly consists of listening for a while and then patting the patient on the back and sending them off with so many sheets of information to treat yourself that you begin to get confused. I do not want to take another anti-depressant as I feel that I am swallowing a suicide pill and they can cause physical symptoms that I am not prepared to put up with. My anxiety causes me all sorts of physical symptoms and my quality of life is nil, I can’t do or enjoy anything and my family is fed up with me. I know that homeopathy is something I can believe in and yet I am not allowed to have this on the NHS, even though the Dept of Health stated that these therapies were going to be allowed I do not want to take another chemical which could cause more side effects and is a lottery situation which might or not work. What can I do???

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