Fucking bullshit, they want like multiple hundreds of dollars for this shit regardless of your insurance or healthcare situation?
Fucking bullshit, they want like multiple hundreds of dollars for this shit regardless of your insurance or healthcare situation?
I have ME/CFS and fibromyalgia, so the anti-inflammatory effects are exactly what I need but neither private insurance nor Canadian Medicare will cover the drugs for this diagnosis even though duloxetine didn’t help me at all.
Preventive care is just not prioritized anywhere. You can get coverage for type 2 diabetes but not prediabetes, you have to get sicker before we’ll give you the cure! Coverage for reducing cardiovascular risk once you have a heart attack, but not before you have it.
I hate so much about the medical system lmao
I’m sorry, it’s fucked even Canada won’t pay for stuff that’s clearly medically necessary. Shit sucks everywhere
It’s wild how insurance companies and random unaccountable bureaucrats get to practice medicine without a license.
Oh no for real it makes me insanely angry. I keep thinking about it when i think about the physical therapy referral i uh still put off (it’s hard to tell if I need it if it’s getting better after correcting my sleeping situation? ugh im conditioned to “wait and see” vs spending money!) because it’s apparently a general thing for insurance companies to require 4-6 weeks of physical therapy (sounds expensive!) before they’ll pay for an xray or other kind of imaging
Idk that might even be the smart thing to do since i guess PTs can diagnose if something’s wrong with how my arm/shoulder move/ etc. But it still feels wrong to have that requirement given by the insurance company. My jackass opinion is i want someone to look inside me to make sure there isn’t some fucked up long term issue with my cervical spine (since i had an explicit disc-slipping feeling a while ago, i definitely want to know if that caused long term injury) and either way it should be a doctor explicitly making the decision on which way to proceed
I have fibro/cfs issues like you , @EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net and dealing with glp-1 craziness, but I’ve also had to do a ton of physical therapy, @LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net, on a variety of insurances including too much none 😅. It’s crazy the difference in care between them…
I share y’all’s pain, it’s so frustrating navigating these minefields, fuck.
(Side thought because I’m definitely not high: finding a good PT who actually understands kinetics and not just outcomes, was so amazingly helpful for me, someone who can really watch your movement and tell you what is happening. The PTs who only focused on outcomes at least helped but also significantly delayed proper care)
(Also also, I had no idea about the anti-inflammatory stuff about glp-1’s interesting… Will look in to that, thanks! )