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Sadly, this thread won't be as interesting as the title implies.
I got diagnosed with ADHD in college. I used to go to the free college health-care center, see their psychiatrist once a month so she could be like "everything good? (yeah) here's your prescription, cya in a month". Well, I'm out of college, I moved to New York City, and my graduate school doesn't have a health-care center.
So uh... how do I go about finding someone nice and convenient to just do basic medication management. Like, go in, get script, be out within 5 min, with a prescription for as long as I'm legally allowed.
I have insurance that has copays of $15 for a primary care physician and $15 for a specialist. I'm guessing there's no free way to get prescriptions written up, so how do I go about finding whatever is cheapest and fastest?
I got diagnosed with ADHD in college. I used to go to the free college health-care center, see their psychiatrist once a month so she could be like "everything good? (yeah) here's your prescription, cya in a month". Well, I'm out of college, I moved to New York City, and my graduate school doesn't have a health-care center.
So uh... how do I go about finding someone nice and convenient to just do basic medication management. Like, go in, get script, be out within 5 min, with a prescription for as long as I'm legally allowed.
I have insurance that has copays of $15 for a primary care physician and $15 for a specialist. I'm guessing there's no free way to get prescriptions written up, so how do I go about finding whatever is cheapest and fastest?
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I have an ongoing prescription, and everytime it runs out I just call up my doctor's office and they phone in a new prescription to the pharmacy I use, so I don't even have to pay the co-pay for a doctor's visit. Now, granted this isn't a medication that has any potential for abuse, so it may be harder depending on what you're on, but I would just find a PCP that you're comfortable with and see what works.
I got an off campus doc during school and she would give me 3 written prescriptions at each visit. So, I only had to go in and see her every 3 months or so.
Sadly I moved away so got a new doc. His plan: I come in and get 1 prescription, in 3-4 weeks I call saying I need another one and come in and pick it up from the counter, repeat.
It all just depends on the doctor you end up getting there.
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I should also note that my prescriptions were for stimulants / controlled substances (adhd as well
Most ADD medications are schedule 2 drugs. The doctor who made the initial diagnosis may be casual but when you start going to another doctor who wasn't involved in the original discovery of the problem, they're not going to be as casual about it. Expect to be required to come in for regular examinations every six months when you start going to a new doctor and asking for a schedule 2.
You can also expect that they will want copies of the medical records covering the time when the diagnosis occurred.
One of the best things to do is when you first visit your new doctor, give them your old doctor's contact information and allow them to hear your prescription needs. As long as you call your old doctor yourself beforehand and give them permission to do this for your new doctor.
Normally, once a doctor is sure that you're not a doctor shopping and you've been on the medication for a while, s/he will give them out like candy.