A RENFREWSHIRE woman with serious medical conditions has told of her fear that a no-deal Brexit would leave her without vital medication.
Jennie Kermode has mixed connective tissue disease with elements of lupus, scleroderma and polymyositis – a condition that means her immune system attacks her skin, muscles and kidneys.
And the 45-year-old writer, from Paisley, is concerned that the Brexit crisis will be bad for her health.
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Ms Kermode said: "I've lost so much muscle that I can no longer walk but I'm not now losing more at a significant rate and my kidneys are stable. This is thanks to a drug called tacrolimus, which is manufactured in Turkey.
"Unfortunately, due to production issues, tacrolimus is already in short supply in the UK, so there's no pre-Brexit NHS stockpile.
"If I can't get it, there's a chance that I'll be able to successfully transfer to another immunosuppressant, if that's available, but doing so will be risky and all the others in existence will make me much more sick than the tacrolimus does.
"I can probably last one to two weeks without my medication before my kidneys fail."
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Ms Kermode said she has raised her fears with her consultant rheumatologist, who told her not to worry as 'somebody will think of something.'
She added: "I wasn't very reassured by that. I'm not aware of anybody working on any remotely practical solution."
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