Where do we draw the line on the price of our health? This is yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of my health issues and neck pain. I've had to make some very difficult decisions lately in regards to my health and check book. How is it we have to put a price on our well being? I currently have good insurance, but my new doctor is out of network. That's fine, except for the part where my treatment program is going to cost $2000 out of pocket. That's just the treatment. There are also the tests. Today was another $200 for a hormone panel test. In the past three weeks, I have spent near a thousand dollars out of pocket for health expenses. This is just the monetary cost. This does not include all my time or mental health. I've been extremely worried over the price tag of this. The money makes me not want to get help. There's just something the matter with that statement there. Why do I have to think, "I can't afford to get better" ? I feel like I'm living an episode of House, minus the hospital and health insurance coverage, and the snotty doctor. I feel like they are just making guesses and then figuring out if those guesses are right. I know that in order to figure out what's wrong with me, there need to be tests run and treatments tried, but, again, at what cost? At what point do I just give up and say, "It's great you're figuring stuff out, but I can't afford this anymore."? What if the "cure" comes in the next session? After three weeks, my neck has more mobility. It still hurts, but it hurts just a little less. The mobility is a huge difference to me though. It's great to be able to turn my head after over year of not being able to do so. I can almost look behind me with out moving my whole body. All my other issues, they still don't know, hence the latest hormone panel. My concern is that I sink money we don't have into more and more tests only for them to come up with no answers. At what point do I give up? Yes, this is such a happy post, but the life of a mom isn't always bon bons and soaps.
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Faye
11/17/2011 02:09:32 am
It is so unfortunate that alternative therapies are not covered by insurance. Hopefully one day soon this will change, because so many people who would benefit from them cannot afford them. I know that I can't! I hope you find your answers and start to feel better soon.
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