Only a few medications require a prescription every month. When I was on Ritalin, I found out that it was a med that a doctor could not call in to the drug store. So I was having to make trips to see the pdoc kind of often.

Eventually, I decided that there was no psych drug that was worth the amount of trouble that the Ritalin involved. Of course, you could be very different from me. But try thinking to yourself of the nice things you could do with the money that you are giving to the pdoc every month.

I wouldn't recommend you going off all meds, but I would recommend getting off a stimulant like Ritalin, or Adderal. Those are schedual 2 drugs that keep you running back and forth to the doctors. (Sometimes, I think the pdocs order them for that reason. I hate to be cynical, but I do think that.) I did read that the doctor could give you 3 separate one-month prescriptions for a stimulant (one script can't have a renewal for these drugs.) Getting 3 monthly scripts from one visit could allow you to only have to see the pdoc once every 3 months. That would save some money, but I'll bet a lot of pdocs would refuse to accomodate that request.

Here's something to consider. If something happens to you where you need some serious pain med, you might have trouble getting it, while you are taking a Schedule 2 drug. That happened to me. That's why I initially went off the Ritalin.