RE: so, medicare, or cal i can't remember which, will n... - 1/5/2014 2:43:37 AM
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LittleGirlHeart
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It has to do with well if that cost almost 3 k i shudder to think what going in for a pych Er visit would cost.
With Kaiser once a month,you get a 30 ish minute appointment with the person who prescribes your meds for regular well being checks, and then if you're in crisis and you need to talk to them any sooner they will fit you in when they can get to you, or have you talk to their nurse, who will take a message, talk to the dr, then call you back with what the dr said and you go from there with out ever hearing from the dr himself. They don't do any visits frequency * at least at the one i go to, others maybe different.* any sooner than once a month.
Yup i was telling my dr all the time i don't feel good and i am nauseous all the time and i have cramps and stabbing pains and all this other stuff and every time I would go in they would just write it off as well we don' know why you don't feel good, you prolly have IBS, keep your diet bland, with out even looking at me just a phone appointment, One dr told me that all my pain was from needing to poop and being constipated, take a laxitive. I've had dr's tell me one thing ,go in a week laterbecause the original issue is worse, and you see a diff dr than the one before, they tell you another thing and then tell you there's nothing can be done and you go in a month later mention the same issue and the dr is like well those dr's were bone heads, there absolutely is something that can be done. i have very little faith in Kaiser any more, and I was so fed up with them, in fact i was trying to change from them to Mercy, when i went in patient in September, whic kind of put a stop to trying to jump ship, because when i am in the middle of a break down, it's the last thing on my mind. changing providers.
I went to the obgyn that day cuz i was having issues with incontinence, i would go from don't have to pee, to peeing myself in minutes, and you can't get jack shit done if you're about to piss yourself every 10 minutes, and the pee was the color of coke.which later nobody could explain, so after all the other dr's who blew me off Dr S finally said well we're doing a urine sample, and the test results would be back in 24 hours, than that evening the pain kicked up worse an worse and the confusion got worse, so bad i forgot how to boil eggs, literally i thought you brought the water to a boil then you put the eggs in. like you do for making spagettie:/
, When i went into the ER I was dizzy, confused, and throwing up and having the worst stabbing pains, like someone was repeatedly knifing me in the belly you couldn't touch any of my abdomen sides or pelvis area with out making me want to squeal like a stuck pig, they took my vitals and I had a fever of 105, was dehydrated, and they had to run a bag of fluids into an iv in my arm, give me two nausea meds, a pain med, and then milk of magnesia cuz the other two meds irritated my stomach or something and i was vomiting yellow crap that burned when i vomited.
then when i got home 3/4 hours later and got comfy to go to bed the vomiting of bile kicked back in. That's a special brand of fun right there being almost asleep then waking up to bile searing it's way up your nose and you almost christen the pillow cuz you're puking in your sleep . and you just barely wake up before spewing .
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ORIGINAL: TieMeInKnottsss
I am somewhat lost. What does a bladder infection have to do with psych costs?
ERs are the most expensive of all medical treatment options. First, many of us on here are on some type of psych med (me...Adderall for ADHD but I have heard of some with Bi-Polar & Depression...). Protocol is that you have a doctor that prescribes the meds and he/she should be monitoring you on a regular basis... If you are having those types of mood swings then your doctor should see you monthly if not more... Not a squeezed in emergency visit but what is called a "prescription maintenance " visit that is regularly scheduled. If an emergency occurs outside of normal hours or you become a threat to yourself...then the police &/or EMT would decide but most insurance companies cover the "Patient First" or the CVS Walk-in clinics...
For a medical condition like a bladder infection...did you not have any symptoms? Again, the first place to go is not an ER but a primary care provider or, again, a walk-in urgent care facility. Granted...I was just hospitalized and needed emergency surgery but my first stop was still an urgent care (I was violently ill on the a weekend, had excruciating pain in my right side & starting peeing blood). They did the blood work and immediately shipped me off to the ER but...trust me, my insurance company would have been thrilled to pay just that bill had I just needed antibiotics!!!
What. I am getting at is that, if you knew something was wrong you don't wait for the critical onset to get it checked out and, even in a case of a weekend or an acute onset...there are options.
< Message edited by LittleGirlHeart -- 1/5/2014 2:46:31 AM >
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