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@amandajro

Hello @ml007 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. The combination of the drug shortage and your primary doctor out on vacation is a double whammy here. Are you able to reach your doctor's administrative assistant who may be able to triage a message to him/her?

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Hi Amanda, Thank you so much for your reply.
I was finally able to track down a pharmacy that had some in stock. I begged them to hold what they had . Reached out to the on call doctor and explained the situation. She was very understanding, looked through my chart and saw that my doctor had been previously writing for the script . They sent script to pharmacy yesterday morning.

This pharmacy actually ordered and received more the same day and was able to fill my complete script. While all others told me they try to order but told not available.
I feel so fortunate !
The current drug shortages in many situations makes no sense. COVID has certainly been a contributing factor but only a small part of the equation.
So many medications for numerous diseases and disorders. No heads up from manufacturers until it's to late.
Majority of doctors are never notified.
FDA has a site for manufacturers to report any expected problem with availability or discontinuation of a drug and have encouraged manufacturers to have a contingency plan in effect.
But manufacturers are not required by law to do this. Leaving hospitals and patients, many with life threatening diseases at risk of not receiving proper treatment.

Majority of individuals don't find out until they go to fill a prescription.
I encourage everyone to set alerts from the FDA, Drugs.com, Good Rx etc. to get information about possible shortage or discontinuation of their medication.
It's certainly not a perfect system but may help some.

I have always found Mayo Clinic site to provide the most up to date and informative information available.
I just recently found out about Mayo Clinic Connect.
Thank you for this great service !

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