I was diagnosed when I was younger, made the mistake of letting my prescription lapse (because I give myself breaks and therefore end up accumulating excess), and now can’t get the medication I need to function.
Fun fact, when you’re ADHD-PI, trying SSRIs isn’t just a harmless fun little exercise, it could have potentially life ruining consequences, which the psychiatrist will not tell you about.
If any psychiatrists are reading this, please know that the ‘harms’ of giving your patients the medication that is proven to work absolutely do not outweigh the harms of all the alternative coping mechanisms needed to avoid losing employment: black market pills, smoking/nicotine, caffeine by the gram, etc.
> I was diagnosed when I was younger, made the mistake of letting my prescription lapse (because I give myself breaks and therefore end up accumulating excess), and now can’t get the medication I need to function.
Wtf? I have done the same thing, gone off-and-on my RX I think 3 times now.
Whenever I wanted to get back on, I just found a random psychiatrist or clinic and said "Can you please renew my ADHD Rx? It's starting to really negatively impact my work performance." and then they'd say okay, sure.
This was in Colorado though, Boulder/Denver area. Half the university students and tech workers had prescriptions so it might be a biased area. Not sure what it might be like other places in the US.
Sorry you're going through that nonsense, if you want to shell out the money you can google "ADHD specialist" and pick a psychiatrist from the list that pops up. Will cost you ~$300-500 (IME) out of pocket for consultation and re-diagnosis.
I would think that would also imply that access in other ways might be a bit "easier" as well...