K, so I see posts wayyyy to often where the OP is crying and miserable about the way their pharmacy treats them like shit and never is on top of making sure they have your meds available and/or ready for you come refill day.
If this is ever the case, you need to fire your pharmacy and find a better one. Usually, smaller mom+pop or smaller local chains will appreciate your business and help you ideally with these things without you even having to ask (or only requiring one-time orientation on what your preferences are as they relate to servics they usually do or should be offering:
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fill your meds automatically without you having to ask
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ensuring it is in stock without you having to worry in order for them to fill said refills
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advise you of any complications or further steps required of you to help them make sure you’re taken care of and consistent with refills
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remind YOU about shit, not the other way around. My pharmacy might as well be my unpaid intern/executive assistant with all things medical as they pertain to my business/the privelege of getting said business I grant them
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delivery: this is non-negotiable. If they ain’t delivering, I ain’t playin’. My pharmacy knows that to be my drug dealer, they gotta come to me. Cuz I ain’t leaving the couch to get my drugs
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deal with dr for you if any discrepancy or error is in the way. This is the beauty of medical practices with adjoining pharms. Ethics be damned, vertical/horizontal integration 4 the win!
That is all. Your pharmacy should feel so lucky to have a good get like AD(H)D patients, I would rather have that then a money printer if I was a pharmacy owner.
Spread the word and f all that noise. You are worthy to be waited on and catered to, controlled substance or otherwise.
Not sure if this is cogent but I take rhe 2nd rarest (prescribed/available) medication next to Desoxyn and I’ve never had an issue getting it filled, even in the depths of the Great Adderall Shortage although it wasn’t Adderall so not sure how relevant my n=1 is this context
State law, but also your insurance and pharmacy benefit manager. Our pbm only allows 30 days of any Rx (pain in the ass for “round the clock” birth control) and the thing is we can pay cash and get more, but this is so hard to communicate to the pharmacies, like literally every time they just fill the 30 days and you’re arguing with some poor tech holding up the line
I emigrated from the US to Canada and I was fucking amazed when my GP wrote a script for 90 days of methylphenidate… and just recently I has a three month out-of-country remote working gig and Canada was totally fine giving me a 120 day supply of my meds in advance for travel. Also, without extended insurance, my meds cost me 10$ for 30 days up here.
It’s so fucking nice not living under the US Healthcare system.
Yeah, was a bit of a culture shock going the other direction. I literally didn’t go to a hospital with a broken ankle because I was uninsured. Wrapped it tight, stayed off of it, and luckily it seems to have healed properly on its own.
That happened with me one time where I went to a pharmacy in a grocery store with 3 previous months’ bottles and he just wrote me a script for 180 filled right there.
I won’t get into it but suffice it to say that was a weird 2 months ;) life was much harder and more perilous back then…
Edit: also like the biggest horse pill-bottle I’ve ever seen or retained possession of