Adderall Backorder (Page 89)

I take generic Adderall 20 mg for narcolepsy and there is not one local pharmacy that has it in stock. I have never had this problem before. The pharmacies are saying that it's on backorder from the manufacturer. Is anyone else having problems getting their scripts filled?

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I just left from speaking with the pharmacist at an independent near my home.

According to him and his tech, generic xr is pretty much off the market. It was showing resupply dates of Jan/Feb and now on their end it just says TBD which according to them is pretty bad.

IR tablets are just now starting to show back up for 5 and 12.5 mg's. The pharmacist thinks they're starting with the lowest doses bc it requires the least ingredients.

WHEN a bottle of higher mg shows up as available to order, the tech compared it to ebay bidding. He said if someone at another pharmacy places the order for it quicker than another person who also sees it, it'll go to the person who gets the order in first. He also said he's had it happen where he'll go to place the order and by the time he hits submit it'll show zero and be gone. I know said pharmacy tried to order a single bottle of 30mg IR on Monday when I was also there in person, and today they said they hadn't received it yet.

The pharmacist said pretty much the only ones who have anything right now are pharmacies that stocked for their reserved regular patients/customers. He said it's been about 4 months since the backorder started for us here and they were able to last about a month and a half off of what they had ordered for their regulars.

When I checked on Monday (same pharmacy) Ritalin was also showing as unavailable in the strength equivalent to 30mg Adderall IR. I believe the employee said 20mg would be the equivalent dose of Ritalin but he claimed it was also unavailable to order when he checked his computer.

This is just what one pharmacy was willing to inform me about bc they aren't too busy and were willing to take the time and explain what they're experience has been. I also had paper prescriptions in hand from my doctor, which may or may not have influenced how much they were willing to discuss with me. I hope it helps give some insight as I know this is a very confusing situation for everyone.

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Re: tim (# 1759)

I’m in Philadelphia and desperate, on the verge of losing my job. Can you share what pharmacy/location that still had it?

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Re: HCStymie (# 1756)

Thank you for this suggestion. I'm pretty sure I don't qualify bc I'm an out-of-state student but I will ask my advisor about it. (:

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I am in Jax and I am unable to fill my adderall prescription. I went to Walgreens and they told me it would take a few weeks. I am a student and have a big test coming up. Has anyone had any luck?

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Re: Balagan75 (# 1762)

All three of my local CVS stores had 30mg available as of Tuesday. In particular, you might try the one in Warminister on York Rd & County Line Rd. is the largest of the ones I typically check and thus, usually has the most consistent stock.

Good luck!

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Re: bp01 (# 1761)

Interesting information - as far as I can gather, the FDA hasn't yet added Adderall XR to their drug shortage database, either. But yeah, yesterday was the first time I had trouble finding it in a long while.

Naturally, my insurance also just decided to not cover generic XR starting just this year. ??

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Re: tim (# 1765)

Thank you so much!

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Re: tim (# 1766)

Anyone in Hampton Roads Virginia able to get Adderall prescription filled.

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Re: Lunar orbit (# 1764)

Florida? What mg & ir or er? If you do not mind I may know a place.

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Re: Kayla (# 1768)

Hey, Thanks for the response. I was able to get my prescription filled at cvs. Hopefully, I’ll have the same luck next month.

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bp01 (# 1751) -- Thank you for that. Now I have a new problem, my doctor refuses to cancel the rx & send it to my old pharmacy who has plenty in stock for my refill as well as my fiance & has plenty in the warehouse to order from. No one told me of the shortage & we are both decade’s long Adderall patient’s so my pharmacy moved & hour away 3 month’s ago & for 2 month’s had to close but sent us all to Notmandy Blvd to a sister pharm to fill, all was good. But my mom who is my only ride got covid from the hospital when her husband was admitted for 2 weeks after having a heart attack so I needed a close pharmacy for 1 month that is all & doctor knew. I called they said they would see when they got rx but to come on they had us so they send it & then say 3 med’s are on backorder & they were waiting indefinatly for 1 & until 1/1/23 for the other & 2/2/23 for the Adderall & it was 1/31/23 so we waited however I find out the other 2 were on no kind of shortage so I called & they said give them 2 hours we go back to the pharm same day but end of day & both med’s are filled & they say they will see us on 2/2/23 however no meds came in then they tell me they will call when it comes in & I could switch oharmacies too anyway they wait unil yesterday 2/8/23 end of day to yell at me, tell me to go to another pharmacy as they will not have any adderall to fill for us for several month’s they do not even know, they tell me to simply call my doctor have them cancel the prescription and send it to the other place. I find it. Well, I informed them that the doctor refuses to send it anywhere else or change the dose or any type of anything and they tell me that there is no way they have to do so no doctor would do that, and that is not the case I said, however it is the case and they tell me we are not going to feel for you. You are not an established regular call your doctor or have them transfer you out & hung up. I talk to my doctor again, plead my case everything else, and they refuse to send it anywhere else. So my new question is, how is this not the absolute definition of medical neglect, or something? What can I do or who do I go to in order to possibly sway said doctor into doing his job? Is that not the most asshole thing to say & way to be to the very people you took the freaking Hippocratic oath to protect and to care for? People do not take mental health seriously in any type of way, and this has proved it even more to me. I really thought (or wanted to believe maybe) that society had really changed, and that the stigmas I was raised up in and all had lifted however, as a chronic pain patient and a person that needs mental health treatment because I have mental health issues it saddens and sickens me to my core. Before my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome got worse & my Fibromyalgia was diagnosed about 10 years ago I worked half my life (i’m now 34) to study, intern & practice as first a CNA at 18 then my MA at 20 & was in school for Psych when my world crashed & I never would have ever treated a single patient no matter what like this. I am a type person that goes without treatment, or medicine or many other things. Yeah, it goes to the doctor every month and it’s not like you’re seeing you just go in and take a urine sample and you’re out no matter how many times I’ve tried to personally meet with a doctor of the last couple of years. It’s like they have no time for you and I do not care, and I really am past my point of dealing with people like this but at the same point when you are like me very hard very scary actually absolutely terrifying to even consider switching or thinking about you on switching care providers. All this from a person with a medical background who my entire childhood was treated by doctors and people around me other than my father like I was a dramatic, drama queen making things up until finally, I was diagnosed at Nemour’s (spelling?) in Jacksonville with Ehlers Danlos syndrome, which is a genetic disorder at the age of 12, I had a nervous break down at the age of 10, I have been treated as a chronic pain patient for over a decade even as a child, so I have the records tests, MRIs, bloodwork, anything and everything you could think of to prove my condition however, the war on drugs, the opiate crisis that I lived through, and everything else makes it extremely difficult for the people like me out there because of people putting people into boxes they should not be in. No one should put people in a box. People are undefinable and once they realize that and stop doing this and stop fighting what is always going to be and to just use benefit over doubt and care over neglect to the people that need it and even those that hey may not then none of this is ever going to get fixed and it will always be a broken system. That’s a fact because in denying one you think may be up to no good, you are entirely dismissing and completely corrupting the entire system & damning those that desperatly do. I suffered my entire childhood think about that. I went all over Florida to every specialist you can think about trying to get help desperate for care desperate for somebody to just help me somebody to just believe me somebody to just ease the pain. I had teachers family members friends people that were in my town. Everybody calling me a drama queen that had nothing wrong with them told to be quiet, told to sit down hush, my mouth and be a good kid. I had doctors laugh at me. A doctors tell me to my face there was nothing wrong with me and that I was a lying and that I needed to stop wasting peoples time because it takes from people that really do need it. Then only to then be diagnosed so easily by the team of doctors my dad demanded & Nemour’s had several specialists who flew in from Texas, Washington, and New York, along with their specialist. No one should ever deny a persons, pain, mental or physical in much the same way that no one should deny a persons fundamental rights, people are dynamic they are complex and there is no test and there is nothing anyone can do to truly diagnose or pinpoint certain peoples pain and then there are people that have conditions that people dismiss as not so bad, and that they should not be in so much pain. As a 34 year-old woman who has dealt with this their entire life and has heard her entire life that nothing looks wrong with them and that they are just faking or that they’re just trying to get attention or that they are lazy or stupid or ignorant, and all because they are the ignorant ones that are too stupid to gain the knowledge to even begin to understand and they damn sure lack any bit of empathy to put themselves in another’s shoes, and only imagine what life would be like as them. Think about the first memory you have more than likely it is a good memory, but there are sadly people like me, who, as far back as they can remember, and the very first memory that they have is of severe, never ending pain that wakes you up in the middle of a deep sleep, screaming for your parents, begging them to please rub your legs and arms and to please take the pain away. Most of my nights most of my memories are like this I can remember crying and screaming and begging them to take the pain from me because it hurt so intensely just growing felt like everything was being stretched and one end of my body was in one vice, and the other was in another vice & Being pulled and pulled way beyond its means. Are used to ask why what did I do? What did I do wrong to have to feel this way when no one else that I know does? Sorry for the long rant just upset and obviously off of my ADHD medicine ha ha. Thank you again for your help and I hope one day people realize a little of what we deal with, and begin to except us as we are.

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Re: Kayla (# 1769)

I’m in Ocala and having trouble

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Re: Relop (# 1723)

Every pharmacy in the country is not out of generic Adderall. In some places it is available. Pharmacies have contracts with wholesalers who have contracts with manufacturers, but not with every manufacturer. If wholesaler usually has Teva and Camber, they send whichever one is in stock. Pharmacy cannot pick manufacturer when ordering. I know of a pharmacy that has not been out of stock but they will not take new Adderall patients.

If a wholesaler buys from 1 or 2 mfrs and they are both on backorder whatever pharmacies order from that wholesaler will not have any in stock. They cannot transfer from one distribution center with low demand to a distribution center with high demand. It just sits on shelf.Tracking system for controlled meds, probably since "opioid crisis". I went without for a month. Then received low quality meds in Jan. Nothing I have tried has worked adequately. It is not tolerance. They worked fine for 20 years, right up to Feb 2022.

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Re: Cyr (# 1773)

Agreed. Merciless!
The Federal Register recent DEA/FDA "addressing" the issue isn't even plausible anymore.

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Re: Verwon (# 10)

VERY helpful. Thanks.

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Hello. I am having a little trouble finding any 20 or 30mg ir in South Carolina. I got a pharmacy (cvs) to fill last month but instead of my regular 2 30s and 1 20mg a day I had to get 90 20s because they didn’t have any 30s. I am out on Thursday coming up and sadly I haven’t been able to cut back as much as I would hope so I could save as many for however long because my adhd is so severe. I called the same cvs today and they said they don’t have either 20mg or 30mg ir and it’s back ordered. If anyone knows of anywhere in South Carolina I’m willing to drive to get my medication. I will even pay out of pocket if needed. I can’t afford to lose my job because I don’t have my medication.

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Re: Dr Gary K (# 1775)

Hm having trouble finding this pharmacy locator by phone..

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Re: MelR (# 1768)

When I lived in Chesapeake I always had luck at Walmart on battlefield blvd…if they were out they would send me next door to Sam’s club (you don’t have to be a member to use Sam’s club pharmacy) then when I lived in downtown Norfolk I went to the Walgreens on colley ave…if it’s still there…it seems we’re all suffering everywhere…good luck!

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I just called my CVS pharmacy to get my 30mg IR filled and they told me that they heard from corporate yesterday that they will not be getting in any Adderall at all until at least the end of April. They recommend I talk to my doctor and switch to Vyvanse which I've tried and doesn't work well for me. Has anyone else heard this? This is crazy. I'm in Los Angeles btw.

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Re: Jenny (# 1779)

I've been hearing late April since December ( L.A) Already switched to Dexedrine ER. My insurance won't cover it unless i get a PA or try Ritalin. So i got Ritalin prescribed.. And that's back ordered now too. so i have 3 seperate drugs prescribed ( Adderall XR 20mg, Dexedrine ER 10mg, Ritalin 20mg) all waiting for availability. And I'll take whichever one gets here first. But they won't even tell me what they do have in stock that i can just pay for in cash. i can't ask my doctor to send a dozen scripts for multiple controlled drugs in various dosages and hope one of them gets filled. Assuming insurance lets me, because theyre the doctor and the pharmacy now lol

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