I am not too sure to be honest but I guess its because if epeileptics had other symptoms while fitting it could be dangerous. I wish I had free prescriptions. How exactly is epilepsy diagnosed? Exactly what symptoms do you have apart from fits?
Because if you have a long term condition which falls into an eligible category, and epilepsy is one of them, you get prescription exemption charges on everything you need.
I am asking as my husband is epileptic since 2004? Whenever I am ill I have to pay the full whack for a prescription as we don't get any benefits, I work on and off doing agency work. Whenever he has to pick up a prescription, maybe for pain relief for his back, he never has to pay, I just don't get it. He hasn't ever had a fit since taking the medication and there are no other symptoms that I have ever seen other than he's become a grumpy git as he's got older, lol!
some medication is needed life long, this medication could be essential to life itself, if it was not available free, the patient could put their life at risk because they cannot afford to buy their medication in hard times.
Can only answer for OH. His kidney failure caused other conditions/problems. His prescriptions were free. When he got shingles was it because he had no immune system....free..... or would he had had shingles anyway? In which case he would have paid. Probably easier to make all prescriptions free rather than trying to figure out which are long term condition related.
Just another of the mysteries of the NHS. Although over 65 and getting free prescriptions, my GP will not prescribe Viagra because he claims ability to achieve an erection is a "lifestyle choice". When I point out that my inability is caused by the shed-load of pills he prescribes for other things he changes the subject.
I don't understand your concern about this. Are you just as bothered that older people all get free prescriptions for everything, even though some of us are still working full-time?