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Aaaaaand sometimes is a "controlled substance" so you have to get a new prescription every month. No 90 day supply, refills, or auto renew. π₯²
What's that? You can message through the app to refill all the other ones easily but not the magic one requires calls and in-person visits to remember and juggle? Cool cool cool.
Fortunately they can write up 3 Rx and then send to the pharmacy every month until my next appt.
Of course my pharmacy can't get the stuff due to the shortage so I have been without for 2wks now. It's a process to have the Rx sent over to a different pharmacy. Easy for someone normal. But ADHD without meds? Yeah.
But with CVS at least, they wonβt schedule out the fill, only place the second and third on hold on your profile. So you have to call and ask them to fill it 2/3 months , canβt do that part on the app either. So to have a continuous supply, youβve got to do go doctors appointment, then pick up meds on first month (assuming no complications, there are always complications)β¦ then the next two months you have to call like 28 days after your last pickup, ask them to fill, and pickup within 2/3 days.
I fucking hate this, and I moved so now my doctor is 30 minutes away. I could find a new doctor but, you know... adhd
I can deal with calling to get a new prescription every month but all the other bullshit that comes with my medication being a controlled substance is what I fucking hate. Oh we are sorry but your prescription is out of stock because the DEA is worried about diversion... Oh and don't call other pharmacies because you are shopping pharmacies and now we are going to flag you...
Also god forbid you might need to refill early if you're going out of town or something. I knew they'd get weird about that so I just refilled it late when I got back and they made me piss in a cup for two months in a row. For refilling late because that could indicate I was selling it apparently???? I still get so upset remembering it. I can't believe how they're allowed to treat us sometimes.
I think that's a sign you are selling because if you aren't taking your medicine to sell it then it becomes a touch harder to remember when you are supposed to actually be out (which completely ignores how ADHD effects people)
Stratera actually isn't a controlled substance since it's not a stimulant (it's an NRI), but my Ambien is, so I know the pain. It's literally easier for me to get legal weed in multiple states around me than it is to get Ambien, which I've been taking for like 20 years.
Ritalin is the only medication I've taken for the last 15 years and I stg someone still fucking hassles me at least once every few months. Either it's insurance, the doctor, or the pharmacy. Someone ALWAYS makes it a pain in the ass. It's beyond absurd how many hoops I still jump through after over a decade of the same dose of the same medication.
Adderall here, and yeah it's nuts how much I have to fight to get the shit I have been taking since I was 10? 12?, I dunno when it's been a few decades
Pre-authorization gang! Doesn't matter that I'm regularly prescribed by the same doctor for over 10 years... my insurance wants to double check once a year to make sure it's still "medically necessary". Like yeah, my ADHD might just fucking go away one day. I fucking wish it would ya assholes, but could we not hold my script for 3 extra days, every year, just to "make sure" I'm not curedβ½
I have to renew mine every 28 days... Because it's so incredibly dangerous that they don't trust the public with any longer prescriptions. I hate it but ahhh, the things I do for that juicy methylphenidate...
Aaaaand if your doctor gets a stick up their ass they can humiliate you with piss tests all they want and you can either endure it or go back into the unmedicated TV static π₯³
That's terrible! Thankfully I've never had a Dr give me a hard time for ADHD meds. Is there any chance you could see a different Dr in your area? You don't deserve to be treated like that.
That's harsh. It's controlled where I'm from but that just means I can't refill on day 89.
Oh my God dude it's such a pain! Also I can't refill on day 30. I have to be completely out, but the pharmacies don't open until 9. So if you need to be a work at 9, you get to pick between being late for work or nit taking medication. π
You can get it for 90 days. At least you can get Adderall for 90 days at a time.
Where? I get my prescription renewed every 90 days, but it has to be sent as 3 separate prescriptions, and you have to wait at least 28 days in between filling each one.
Iβm in Idaho. I started on Adderall last year and it gets called in for a 90 day supply each time. My doctor told me that 90 was the max he could do for a controlled substances. The restriction on refilling mine is basically 2 - 3 days before the 90 days is up.
@Conyak @frogfruit @adhd and you don't have to pick up a new supply every 30 days? That might be federally illegal....π¬
Itβs not. Back in 2007 the DEA changed it from 30 to 90 days for schedule II controlled substances. Some states have restrictions though.
I do have to pick up every month in Texas. They send 3 separate prescriptions, and I pick up once per month and then see the Dr for a new script 3 months later. You can pick up 2 days early, but some pharmacies allow up to 4 days early iirc.
@frogfruit @adhd ah, yeah. That's the same with me. Our friend here, doesn't seem to be the case.π€·ββοΈ Strange.
NY has a weird rule where 90 days is fine for children but not adults. At least for Concerta, which works best for me. π