This doesn't even account for the perma-drama due to the artificial shortage generated by the DEA. Getting your prescription filled, if you manage to wrangle one, often requires hours of calling around which pharmacy can fill said prescription.
And you get to do that every months. And you can't get a prescription earlier, you have to wait a full month. So, essentially: Right when you're forced off your medication that helps your executive function, you need to exercise large amounts of executive function.
The hoops I have to jump through for a prescription I’ve been on for multiple years is ridiculous. My insurance will wrongly think I’ve filled it at a CVS I sent the script to hoping they’d have it in stock and then I sometimes end up paying out of pocket because otherwise I am exhausted all day and have limited capacity to do tasks.
The meds themselves have dramatically improved my life by being more capable of getting tasks and work done. Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.
> Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.
Talk to your prescribing psych about this. More, but smaller, doses throughout the day may be a way around this. Diet and changing when I medicate helped me a ton. I got another few hours per day out of my meds just by splitting the medication up and administering every few hours, timed just before/after lunch.
You do still need to acknowledge / accept that the medication can't be a 24x7/forever cure though; that crash back to sub-optimal levels of function and abundant distractability is inevitable :(.
That's not what you want to hear I guess. But Adderall has a dirty crash, using pure Dextroamphetamine and not one of this mix pills makes the crash more bearable and less tiring
You maybe know this already, but there are a couple sites that will handle the calling around for you. It is kind of ridiculous I spend more on the site than on the actual meds, but I just don't see another way for now.
I did not know this indeed. But, of course, that means signing up and spreading your medical info even further. (Plus, in some cases, more money)
For folks who are also looking, the search term "adhd meds call around service" seems to work. I'd list URLs, but I haven't used any and don't want to endorse.
And you get to do that every months. And you can't get a prescription earlier, you have to wait a full month. So, essentially: Right when you're forced off your medication that helps your executive function, you need to exercise large amounts of executive function.
It's massively stupid.