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:

  • fill your meds automatically without you having to ask

  • ensuring it is in stock without you having to worry in order for them to fill said refills

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Wow, that sucks. I’d be screwed without my Dexedrine, yikes. Every time I go off it things slowly start going to shit

    • Radioactive Radio@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yeah it’s like, someone took my crutches. Once you experience “normal”, going back is so terrible.

        • Radioactive Radio@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          It shows the meds, but says you can’t buy methylphenidate meds from them. Or something like “not available for sale”. Maybe we have some kind of ban on it or something?

          Forever unavailable

          • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Ya but ask, doesn’t matter what you see or hypothesize. Or get a burner Reddit account and ask what other Indian AD(H)Ders are saying. They seem to be saying modafinil is OTC, have you tried that?

            • Radioactive Radio@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              No like, nothing but inspiral is available in my city. I’ve asked for straight up just methylphenidate. Not even telling what brand. They just always have inspiral and they’re mostly out of it. And I have to go really far for that particular store. My therapist even told me it’s the only one available, she’s really nice but she was dissapointed in the drugs availability too lol.

              • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                So wats wrong with Inspiral if its available in your city? How the heck does anyone else access their meds? I really don’t understand how a city can be like that…this is like boonies territory I would expect that from

                Just ask on Reddit if you actually want to solve this problem, I kinda feel like you have a bottomless well of “buts” for why you cant solve this problem and I gotta go aha