r/ADHD • u/Space-Useful • 2d ago

Seeking Empathy My medication went from $31 to $130.

I'm really frustrated right now and I would like to know if anybody has experienced sonthing similar. So I'm on Methylphenidate and I would pick it up from my local walmart for $31 dollars. Starting this month, it randomly shot up to $130. I called my insurance, they said it was somthing up with walmart. Talked to my walmart pharmacist and she said that nothing has changed with walmart in terms of a manufacturing change and no changes to my prescription has been made.

I had to bite the bullet and pay to get the medication (I'm afraid of abruptly stopping it). I plan in calling my insurance again but this is just very upsetting.

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u/jkvf1026 ADHD-C (Combined type) 2d ago

Something happened recently with the government. I don't remember off the top of my head, but my partner & I were talking about it earlier after he got his inhalers from Walgreens.. There was some retired soul at Walgreens today trying to get his meds... They went from $13 to $125...

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u/SweetSweetCookies 2d ago

Most of the countries that make generic medications just had huge tariffs placed on imports to the US. Trump also removed all protections on elevated medication costs, so big pharmaceutical companies are doubling down on name brand meds as well. This is all going to keep being the new normal in the US for this term sadly.

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u/jkvf1026 ADHD-C (Combined type) 2d ago

Yea, it's really scary. If I can't get my meds, I can't function. Adderall works for 2 different conditions of mine, ADHD & Hypersomnia.

I'm fortunate to live in Oregon, where there's a lot of community organizations to help people & the state has been trying to find other ways to fund their Medicaid program for a few years but it's still in jeopardy. Regardless, the West Coast will only be able to hold out for so long under the current administration, unfortunately more than half of Oregons children are covered by the Oregon medicaid program, so it's only a matter of time until everything crashes.

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u/SweetSweetCookies 2d ago

I completely understand, I have bipolar disorder comorbid with ADHD and I have to have my medication or I can suffer serious effects. All we can hope for is something or someone to start standing up to these changes or we can just read all of Project 2025 to see what will happen next 😞