Finally A "good" Health Update
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I have some good news to report. After 2 months of fighting with my insurance , I finally have the medication my dr ordered. I've been on it about two weeks. it takes a few months to fully kick in but I am feeling just a touch better.
I also talked to my dr after exhausting every palliative care provider in the area, and having no luck he agreed to give me a tiny amount of pain medicine.
The absolute lowest dose and only two a day (this medicine should be taken every 4-6 hours) It's better than nothing but not quite enough. I'm pretty sure I got more as a kid when I had to get dental work. but it's a start
My dr recognized my pain as well as the difficulty of me getting to a pain management dr- monthly in person visits, random same day drug tests, and other factors make that impossible for me.
It should not be this hard to get pain care but it is. Especially for women. The same practice the NP that works there gave my husband max dose of pain meds every month for years, no questions asked (until he decided to go somewhere else for that). I am in objectively more pain and after years of battle.... I get a children's dose worth.
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Some not so good news...I have a squishy lump right where the (not cancerous)tumor was removed. It doesn't feel as hard as the tumor . I could be fluid build up. I need to get an MRI to see what's going on. Luckily the kind of tumor I had is very easily seen on MRIs. It's highly unlikely the tumor is back after only a few months, these tumors grow slowly.
I am also having a spot on my ankle checked again . I may have a rupture. We warned the insurance company about the delays in getting me meds. In the two months it took something happened and my pain and swelling got more severe. The new meds will stop, or at least slow down the damage.
I am likely looking at two or three more surgeries in the future. Surgeries that could have been avoided if it didn't take literal decades for a diagnosis because doctors do not believe women's symptoms, even with positive findings. I have permanent damage.
Glad you've made some sloth steps towards getting the help you need, it seems like an awful process to have to go through for medical help! Wishing you all the best!
Thanks. ❤️ It's..hell. and in the US I have to pay over $10,000 a year minimum for the privilege of being gaslit by most doctors. "Sloth steps" is an accurate description of how I walk now(I lost count how many torn tendons I have in my ankles. 8, 16 maybe?). !BBH !UN !PIXY
ouch! Well, more reason to sloth about and put your feet up! Wishing you a speedy recovery, or some decent pain meds at the very least!
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I !HOPE that you can find a support of other women near you who also have really bad experiences with most (not all) physicians !INDEED. 🦄🤗 !BBH !MMB !STRIDE
It's all women so...we are everywhere. I do not know any women with chronic illnesses that don't share this experience. It's just how women are treated by the healthcare system all over the world. In the US we get the privilege of paying for this medical abuse. Multiple studies back up my experiences and women's collective experiences. Women die or like me suffer permanent damage by the millions every year simply because drs don't believe us or our test results. This should infuriate the world but collectively no one cares.Our societies are too misogynistic to care. We are just mocked and called "emotional" or "crazy" even by our own drs . It's worse for women of color. !BBH !UNI !PIXY
I wonder how women who are medical professionals (especially doctors and nurses) have experienced while studying in medical school. 🧘♂️ !STRIDE !ALIVE
Let's !HOPE that more women, at least in other countries, get good medical services in the same way men do !INDEED. 🤗 !MMB !BBH
In many parts of the world it's getting worse for women, especially in the US. Women dying of miscarriages due to abortion bans and other factors.
In order for women to get the same treatment as men we'd need to abolish the patriarchy and have women seen truly as equals in society.Instead women are losing rights even though it's men who are committing a super majority of all crime, including violent crimes. !BBH !UNI
Anyway, is the !UN command a shortform for UNICOIN token tipping, or just a typo !INDEED? 🤯🤓 !MMB !BBH !ALIVE
I whish you quick recovery.this is so sad
❤️ Thank you so much. !BBH
my pleasure 💕❤️🩹
Progress! I hope it's just fluid 🙏 best to get it checked out just in case.
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Where are you located that they take so long to help you? I haven't been to a doc in years here in the US, but I understand it's 2-3 months out to get an appointment. It's easier to just go, or so I'm told, to the ER to get the help one needs.
Getting healthcare should not be this difficult! I am sorry you've had such a rough time of it. I hope things get taken care of and soon. Take care! !LADY
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I'm in the US. The ER doesn't do anything for chronic issues, or even emergencies. Last time I went to the ER they released me with "no findings' or treatments-I had a partially collapsed lung and a hernia. I was at the ER because my vitals kept crashing including my 02 levels. They didn't take me seriously because the paramedic said it was "just anxiety". The test results were right there.This is...the norm for women with chronic illnesses all over the world unfortunately. drs just don't listen or even look at test results. There was yet another recent study that showed exactly this. That women are labeled with "anxiety" and not treated even when they get the same test results as men who are treated. Same for women's pain, not taken seriously or treated even when things like imaging show structural damage.
Healthcare is so expensive and I am gaslit by drs 95%+ of the time. It takes years for diagnosis. Unfortunately if you are female and already have other female dominant illnesses it's even worse. No one believes you. Drs are still to this day diagnosing hysteria, just under a different name.
My bloodwork has never once come back completely normal but that never mattered. it shouldn't take decades (onset in childhood) for diagnoses but it's happened to me more than once. I am not the only one. This is how all women with chronic illnesses are treated all over the world.
Thanks for you support. !BBH !UNI
It is sad; once, a few years back, I went to an arthritis doc at my DIL's insistence. The doc I was seeing was female. Even though it's evidenced through just visually looking at me, that I have arthritis. Anyway, she kept asking me if everything was okay at home. It didn't take me long to say adios to her and never go back, even though she did have an X-ray done of my back where it was indicated I had moderate arthritis there. That was 11 years ago and I've not been to a doc since for anything.
I just deal with things on my own. It makes one a little gun-shy to even think about going to a doc.
I don't even know what to say; docs do not want to treat all of you-just pieces of you, and that's a whole another story altogether.
Take care and hang in there. 🤗
I am so sorry. It's awful to be dismissed and though drs and healthcare workers are supposed to ask once if you are safe at home (to every patient) they often get fixated that women's physical problems are (emotional) stress.This does not happen to men as a default unless you are a man of color or have female dominant conditions. It dates back to Freud who was a raging misogynist and has caused countless harm to everyone, especially women. I hope you are dealing with it the best you can. it's not uncommon for women to avoid the dr altogether when new or worsening symptoms arise because of dr's failure to treat and medical trauma. !BBH
I am dealing so far, but someday, maybe sooner than later, I will have to go get my hip looked at. I at this point would like 2 things; 1-to get an x-ray of the area and I want to see it-not just take the doc's word, and 2-to get a complete blood panel done and have an honest discussion about what the results show, if anything. It's been suggested by friends to seek a naturalpath that can look at you as a whole but also be able to prescribe regular meds should they be needed.
I just haven't gotten to the place yet in my head.
Thank you for responding; take care and have a lovely day! !LADY
Or a DO, they also tend to do integrative medicine. Also OMT feels great .My suggestion for blood work is to make sure they are checking your sed rate and hs-crp . This will help show systemic inflammation if it's there. It's not always checked. Yes it's good we can access our records including radiology reports ourselves. I found so many things drs ignored after the fact just looking at the imaging reports. !BBH
Good to know. Now, eventually, I'll figure out who to go see and hopefully figure out some treatment that doesn't involve all kinds of drugs! Take care my friend and keep moving ahead! 🤗🌹 !LADY