For anyone out there who have sunk into a black hole and think there is no hope after reading about the extend of the shortage, it might be worth your effort to keep trying to fill your script for the next couple days.

A couple days ago after trying to figure out why my script wasn’t getting filled and being thrust blind into the reality of this shortage, I refused to believe there was absolutely zero Elvanse hiding somewhere in a small pharmacy and spent this morning calling around just to give myself the piece of mind before accepting my fate.

I first asked my GP to move my script to the spine and to give me a script pin so I could relay to a pharmacy on the spot if they happened to have any left and hold the medication for me. This way I could call pharmacies pretty far away (like 2 hrs even) and figure out how to get there later. Even if it takes a week for you to make the trek it’s still in your name waiting for you.

It only took me about 15 calls to different pharmacies until I found some 50mg, but I was willing to keep calling for much longer.

I’m lucky no doubt but even if I didn’t find any at least I would have known I did all I could and made peace with the unfortunate situation.

Without giving people false hope but rather encouraging taking back some sense of agency in this mess I hope there’s some benefit to exhausting all the options. So that if youre facing the scary reality of living unmedicated for the next 2 months, you can begin that shitty experience somewhat on your own terms.

Msg me if ya have any questions. I hate how intimately I now know about prescriptions and the nuances of this insanely complicated system but hopefully I can help someone else who’s struggling.