I can’t speak for Boston on vyvanse specifically but I have family down south who’ve had a really hard time finding Vyvanse month to month… seems like the East Coast drought hit especially hard for Vyvanse… hang in there!!

The generic versions are finally rolling out sometime this fall/early next year so that usual price tag won’t be so costly soon enough.

Good luck with your search! Happy Tuesday to ya.

I’m relatively new to using the term, but I spent a year serving with Americorps as a social justice educator and now it’s locked into my vernacular lol

I went 24 years without any stimulants in my system— if I have to ration for a month or two so that other people without access for months can get the help they need then honestly so be it.

I’ve had friends fall into depressive episodes after weeks of no treatment, I’d rather help anyone like that snap out of that hole with the help of proper care than worry about myself entirely.

Somethings are bigger than 20Mg’s of legal meth twice a day.

Not trying to be snarky or combative— I appreciate your perspective and don’t disagree with your point. Just making the conscious choice to think beyond myself.

Happy Tuesday though! Have a great week.

As an ADHDer who desperately needs at least one dose/day to be my very best, Telehealth scares the bejeesus out of me.

I tried Cerebral on a 1 month-free promo for a refill and an ESA waiver (r/LifeProTips) and the guy I talked to asked zero questions after "Tell me why you think you have ADHD" and signed off on everything. A lot of false diagnoses or rushed diagnoses led to an overprescribing epidemic.

Now, that's not to say there aren't a TON of currently undiagnosed folx out there who greatly benefit from stimulants, but the exponential increase of prescriptions isn't because of any sudden increase in actually-diagnosed individuals.

And with that said, the FDA and DEA's regulations on production caps and distribution laws have strained the system just not exclusively because of the drug maker's and distributor's ability or lack thereof to produce a larger volume of these medications at a faster rate. So in short: a little column A + a little column B, if you will.

Can you tell I took my afternoon dose today? Lol

Have a great week to those who read this ramble.

>Maybe, but..

I love reading about the inner workings of BS like this. Fuels my advocacy fire lol.

thanks for sharing! Have a great week,

They are really quick too. My Doc is out of state, called it in this afternoon and it was ready in an hour. Glad this helps!

Oof, yeah you make a great point.

Going to leave it up a little longer to be kind, then take it down.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this in the last few months.

I didn’t date casually or otherwise until I turned 24. I’m neurodivergent, was overweight as a kid, and had a bit of a delayed emotional and social development.

There’s a much longer story about those days, but I digress.

But up until I started dating in my 20s my only release of oxytocin (also known as the love hormone) was emotional intimacy.

On some level I guess you could say that my developmental track as a straight, cisgender male essentially happened in the reverse order than most of my male peers.

I’m a “wears his heart on his sleeve” kind of guy, so on some level that part came more naturally but as a guy I’ve found it can be a big turnoff romantically and socially.

Anyways, I’m known to pine. Don’t get me wrong— I’ve learned to “casually date”… but casual sex and one night stands never feel like “enough” to me.

But I’ve recently realized that the handful of women I’ve felt a strong emotional and sexual connection with in the last few years has been like a double dose of heroin (metaphorically speaking) which has made the withdrawal when things haven’t worked out (often because I’ve come off too strong after a few sexual encounters) that much harder to deal with.

I have plenty of abandonment and rejection issues, but I’ve been working on that in therapy for a while now— learning to break it all down to a biochemical level has been helping.

Even platonically, I tend to latch on quickly once I’ve felt a strong emotional of intellectual connection and have run new, fast friends off by being a little too intense sometimes.

Anywho, thanks for posting this. It was pretty validating just to write this anonymously on the internet.