Sorry you are going through this. here on state insurance we too need things like prior authorization for certain medications and or treatments. and the doctors and phamacies and so on get a complete list of those things and they take care of the paperwork for the patients. for example

My doctor presribes medications and gives me some samples,

if my doctor does not automatically hand me the samples I request them from him because I know that my beeing on state insurance means I may not be able to have my prescription filled that same day..

I take the prescription to my phamacy,

my phamacy calls my physician,

my physician faxes the information to the insurance,

the insurance faxes the authorization to the pharmacy.

total elapse time a day or two and I don't have to do anything in the process except hand the phamacy the prescription, use the samples and call the pharmacy the next day to see if my prescription has been filled.

If you still don't have your prescription you can call your physician and ask for some samples. That way you are not having lack of medication problems while waiting for the prior authorization to go through.