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·
    1 year ago

    You being serious right now, like freaking methylphenidate is too much to ask? WTF, where the heck do you live that is that incompetent?!

    Imma need you to elaborate on how thats possible?

    • Radioactive Radio@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      India, Dehradun, i’ve searched every damn pharmacy in here, nothing. Asked my therapist, she shrugged like there’s just one brand available and the one store that sells it most times don’t have it. So I had to wait weeks to get it. And then my therapist would have to restart the whole thing from 5 mg cuz apparently you can’t continue using the 20 mg straight up idk. Did this for months and had to give up. Even looked em up in the online pharmacies. Can’t say I didn’t try.

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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.

          • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            What does the pharmacy say, like why don’t they order more?

            Maybe ask folks on r/India or whatever, maybe someone there knows something

            • 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