Giving Up on Life: Insurance Won't Cover My Medication

Try to contact your insurance and appeal or ask them for a denial letter that tells you why you're not allowed to have it. If that fails, talk to your doctor and see if you can get help from a specialty pharmacy that deals with expensive medications. Insurance suddenly stopped letting me have my migrane medication and that's what I had to fight to do. Sometimes insurance will look at the medication and compare it to your conditions. If you can find your insurance's list of covered medications, that's the first step. If it's there, keep going. The medication you're on isn't a typical depression medication in black and white, it's an ADHD and eating disorder medication. If you're, which idk if you are or aren't, diagnosed with either of those, they can cut you off for not having a "qualifying condition." That's when you have to appeal and ask your doctor to help you. They have to have it slammed in their face the facts and the why you're on it. If the medication isn't covered at all, call the insurance company and ask to be sure. If it isn't, try to contact the specialty pharmacy. Considering this medication is a stimulant that actually helps with dopamine, unlike antidepressants, there are a lot of medications in its class. I don't know if you've been on a load of antidepressants that don't work, but you're in you're early number of trials with drugs like this that aren't antidepressants. But if so, try a few alternatives to that class of medication. Hopefully there's generic forms. Don't give up. The system is fucked and unfair and they force us to jump through these hoops. Fight the system, please. When everyone gives up, they win and so continue to know that they can walk all over all of us with mental illness. I'm sick of the bullshit too, but please don't give up. Ask them why you can't have it before you give up.

I understand where your coming from I felt the same way when my mom died when I was only 16 years old at the time and I just about gave up but now when I really think about if I would have given up I would not have had my daughter and what kind of medication are you on maybe i can help

Please call 988 if you have to, but don't give up. It took me 6 or 7 med tries to find something, and one of them that worked for me was in that same vein...tried everything but still couldn't afford the several hundred dollars. Calling 988 can help.

Have you looked on the medication site? Sometimes they have their own discount cards. Also take a look at good rx, rx saver, or one of those apps. I've run into this issue and been done and ready to quit and was able to find a solution through other avenues. PM me if you would like help navigating getting the script.