Is it hard finding a psychiatrist to prescribe you Adderall?

Question

The official ADHD assessment diagnosis would cost $1200. My insurance (provided by my current university, UCSD) would not cover any of it.

What I'd really like to do is be prescribed with medication. I was told by friends that they were perscribed medication (such as Adderall) just by seeing a psychiatrist, who would then send them home with a test. After they turn in the test and asking a few questions, they walked out the door with a prescription. I like this method better because my insurance would actually cover the therapy sessions.

What would you recommend I do? Would psychiatrists really prescribe me medication so informally and easily like that after a few sessions? Most importantly, how did you get diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed medication?

Answer 1

Actually you only need to go to your MD, I'm prescribed Adderall and all you need to do is tell your doctor your symptoms, they'll give you a short written test on your symptoms. And if you meet the criteria for ADHD then they'll prescirbe you a medicine, however there are other ones available, so they may want to try you on something else first. The reason I was prescribed Adderall is it was the one of two medications that were covered by my insurance with the lowest co-pay, and I told my doctor I couldn't afford the other medicine.

Answer 2

Finding Adderall

Answer 3

I take adderall and what i had to do was first you have to go to the doctor and get blood drawn so they can "make sure you dont have another condition" before testing you. then they send you to a physiatrist and they give you like a 4 hour test on focusing on things and they tested my IQ. Then like a week later they called and i had to go in again and talked about it with the shrink, then she sent me back to the doctor and i got adderall. This takes like a few weeks to do all of it. Now thats if you really think you have adhd. If you wanna get it to get high..( which i really dont think does much) but if thats what your goin for then when you go to take the test thing, just act super distracted the whole time like if there are other noises in the room and w/e.. because when i went back to the shrink for the second time she said thats mostly why she thoguth i had it was because she said she thought i was easily distracted. but thats just what happened with me, im sure you could find someone who would perscribe it to you without a test, but the older you are the more they try to search for other reasons besides adhd. Also to get refills you have to go see the doctor usually or do this pre planned refill but you still usually need to see the physciatrist/doctor to get it refillled.. good luckkkkk

Answer 4

You sound like you want the meds but dont talk about the problems of ADD or ADHD. Are you going to use them as dope?


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