Day One
Well, I finally (somehow) lit a fire under my ass and got an appointment. Things went rapidly after that, and yesterday I saw Dr. Dena Armstrong. Nice lady, she is, but she's a generalist. So it's likely that she'll just be my legal drug dealer rather than as intensely involved as Dr. Feinberg was. I suppose it's unfair to compare the two, but I had hopes for someone more experienced with adult ADHD--I'm apparently her first. Well, I can always talk to her about my sister's estrangement to our mother :P
I filled the Rx on the way home from the appointment, and today I dosed for the first time in (thinks back) nearly two years. I'm on Adderall (generic dexamphetamine salts), 20mg spaced out over four times a day. I'm attempting to mimic the effects of Adderall XR, which is most certainly not generic. I had great success with the latter, but my pocketbook knows better this time around. All in all, I'm finally getting full use out of my insurance coverage. Hooray!
I did the numbers on how much it will cost. My appointments cost me 20% of the actual, and for generics my co-pay is $10. The first visit was $250, but that will decrease to a little more than half that now that I'm instated as a patient. So, all told the value is my insurance cost per month (~$120) plus the cost of the visit and the meds, adding up this month to $180, and likely somewhat less from now on. That's $30 more than the meds alone without insurance, and that's not factoring in the cost of being a patient without insurance (requiring a visit to get an Rx), which would be closer to $400 all told.
Here's to better living through chemicals.
I filled the Rx on the way home from the appointment, and today I dosed for the first time in (thinks back) nearly two years. I'm on Adderall (generic dexamphetamine salts), 20mg spaced out over four times a day. I'm attempting to mimic the effects of Adderall XR, which is most certainly not generic. I had great success with the latter, but my pocketbook knows better this time around. All in all, I'm finally getting full use out of my insurance coverage. Hooray!
I did the numbers on how much it will cost. My appointments cost me 20% of the actual, and for generics my co-pay is $10. The first visit was $250, but that will decrease to a little more than half that now that I'm instated as a patient. So, all told the value is my insurance cost per month (~$120) plus the cost of the visit and the meds, adding up this month to $180, and likely somewhat less from now on. That's $30 more than the meds alone without insurance, and that's not factoring in the cost of being a patient without insurance (requiring a visit to get an Rx), which would be closer to $400 all told.
Here's to better living through chemicals.