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Default Apr 22, 2020 at 09:23 PM
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Hi, how are others coping with getting an Rx during Covid?. My original doc passed away and I can find no doctor in my entire huge city. Either they are not taking new patients OR they just dont prescribe a restricted medication like Vyvanse.

I am just returning from a University Psychiatric Hospital. I waited hours to be seen and then finally told that they cannot prescribe to anyone Vyvanse or any ADHD medication, except anti-psychotics and other meds (other than ADHD) they are fine with.

This is a weird experience, I am very depressed, I have exhausted all resources.
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Hello max: I noticed this is your first post here on PC. Welcome to Psych Central.

I'm sorry I probably don't have any useful suggestions to offer you with regard to your dilemma other than to perhaps look into the possibility of on-line psychiatry services. I believe there are such options available on-line although I've never had occasion to avail myself of them. So I don't have any first-hand experience with them.

If you have health insurance, you might contact your health insurer & see if they can be of any help. Of course I realize things work differently depending on where a person lives. But in my own case, twice, my health insurer has been able to get me in to see psychiatrists when I could not make an appointment on my own (or could not get in in a timely manner.) One thing I have learned, over the years, is that my health insurer can make things happen I could never accomplish on my own. They wield a lot of power in the system. And, sometimes, it can be a lifesaver.

Anyway... those are the possible options that come to my mind. Perhaps other PC members will have other possible options they can suggest. I hope you find PC to be of benefit.

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Do you have a primary care doctor you can make an appointment with? Did you get your records from the doc that died? That doctors' staff should be able to give you your records so you can see your primary.

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