Doctor/prescription

[nurseratchit]

I'm in the US and have insurance through my employer.

I'm taking compounded tirzepatide with a prescription, and my PCP knows it and encourages it. It's so damn expensive. I'm thinking about buying from Tydes instead. Would I need to tell my doctor I stopped taking it, since I would no longer have a prescription for it? This makes me nervous for medical records/insurance/etc. I'd like to just say I'm still taking it so that my doctor knows, but I assume I probably shouldn't.

Can’t your doctor just keep writing the prescription for you? He/she doesn’t know whether you filled it or not.

 

[moonpies4misfits]

Can’t your doctor just keep writing the prescription for you? He/she doesn’t know whether you filled it or not.

This is what I'm wondering. My doctor actually wanted to prescribe Zep but my insurance wouldn't cover it so I told him I'd do the telehealth option.

 

[PopTart]

Can’t your doctor just keep writing the prescription for you? He/she doesn’t know whether you filled it or not.

My script is through a compounding pharmacy and not my PCP.

 

[MiniatureSnail]

I stumbled upon this same topic on a different platform and it has completely changed my mind since my original reply after understanding insurance company practices relative to this. I would definitely not tell my doctor that I was taking medicine for which I did not have a script.

Can you elaborate why or why not, specifically? Lots of people are honest with their doctors about other illicit substances they use, for which there is no prescription available at all (cocaine, MJ, etc). Not challenging you, but genuinely curious.

 

[milos]

Can you elaborate why or why not, specifically? Lots of people are honest with their doctors about other illicit substances they use, for which there is no prescription available at all (cocaine, MJ, etc). Not challenging you, but genuinely curious.

I think it depends how much you trust your doctor and if this information will be shared with the insurance company ... I can easily imagine insurance company will not like clients who self-medicate with some RCs or even illegal drugs. But if you trust your doctor, he/she should be informed about it for sure.

 

[PopTart]

Can you elaborate why or why not

Milos pretty much covered it.

I would consider sharing with my doc any FDA approved meds I was taking, for which I had a script from another provider or no script at all, but I wouldn’t want that to go on my record necessarily, especially if there was no basis for using that med in my health record.

When shopping for insurance coverage, potential providers may flag any instances where your meds and health history do not align because it raises your level of risk from the insurance company’s perspective.

If I were to take Rapamycin to extend my lifespan, it would get flagged as I don’t have a condition to support its use.

 

[iamedbile]

I ended up telling over 10 doctors I was talking imported semaglutide during an (unrelated to GLP1s) health emergency a couple months ago and virtually none of them cared. One nurse made a stink about it, everyone else just wrote it down and moved on.

I will continue to not hesitate to tell health care professionals all the medications I'm on. It may be medically relevant, and the worst that can happen is they give me dirty looks and insist on an annoying conversation.