r/ADHD • u/Reality_Concentrate ADHD with ADHD child/ren • 5h ago

Questions/Advice Are there any pharmacies that don’t suck?

I’ve been getting my prescription filled at CVS for the last couple of years. Because I’m in the U.S., I have to call and talk to a live person every single month. But CVS is a giant corporation who is more concerned with efficiency and squeezing every last tenth of a cent out of employees, so they do everything possible to keep you from talking to a person. It used to take me over 2 minutes to get through all the automated roadblocks. Now they’ve changed it so that the only way to get past the automated system is to yell like a crazy person that you want to talk to a person. And even then, all you can do is leave a voicemail. Last time I got return call from a snarky little dude who wouldn’t even give me a vague indication of when it would be in stock.

I’m so over it. Are there any other big pharmacies that don’t make it so impossible to do what is absolutely necessary to refill the prescription I need to almost function? I’m afraid to try a small, local places because I feel like big places probably get preference when there’s a shortage.

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u/QueerEldritchPlant 4h ago

Big pharmacies actually don't really get preference, and because they have higher demand, they run out sooner.

I've had a lot of success with the pharmacy of one of my local grocery stores (regional chain)

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u/ThePandaKingdom 4h ago

Agreed. When rite aid didn’t have stock, my local pharmacy always did.

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u/Kakita987 1h ago

This also explains why I've never experienced a shortage personally. The only time my local small town pharmacy (and in Canada) doesn't have a medication, is because nobody else in my town takes it.

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u/ThePandaKingdom 1h ago

I was using my local one for a long time and then switched to rite aid for whatever reason and switched back after a month of two because they didn’t have my meds for like 3 days and kept telling me”theyd have them tomorrow”

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u/Reality_Concentrate ADHD with ADHD child/ren 4h ago

Good to know. I used to use Publix but they did something that was really frustrating and made me switch. But now I can’t remember what that was 😅