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It's got to change, right?
I'm hoarding my pills as it is, taking weekends off and the occasional weekday...and asking my doc for a refill 28 days out from the last fill regardless of how many I have left.
I take Vyvanse for ADHD + BED...it helps tons with squelching "food chatter"...so I am not getting distracted by a constant desire to snack and stay on-task. It seems to have helped with my social anxiety as well since I'm less clammed-up when medicated.
Doc suggested I try Concerta if Vyvanse is hard to come by, but Concerta hasn't been too much better.
And I'm sure the pharmacy's are just as tired of me calling them for inventory questions as I am.
I just wish there was a better way. The whole situation, and that it had gone in this long, is just absurd.
In the case of Vyvanse I almost get it, since it's a newly genericized med. I used to work in Pharmacy Billing and I know insurance companies will not accept brand due to industry shortage of generic.
There were plenty of times when a new generic would hit the market by one manufacturer and it'd take months for them to scale up enough to match demand, but the entire time, insurance companies deny the brand because there's a generic "available".
But it's not just Vyvanse, it's all of them.