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I am ready to join you on the Canada thing. My oldest has GERD and after months of trying different medications, we finally found one that helps him...Nexium. We're still waiting for my insurance to approve it.
Insurance companies suck.
... but what the has happened to common sense in the health care industry? The government has bent over so far for the big drug companies and the health care industry in general that I can't even get a got damn pair of contacts.
I lost my glasses in Vegas during all-star weekend () and since then have been wearing the same one-month contacts. I try to order new contacts or glasses but my prescription is expired. Okay, that's understandable.
I go to the eye doctor and he looks at my eyes and says that he can't get an accurate reading on my new prescription because I've worn those contacts too long and my eyes are messed up. He tells me that I have to keep my contacts off for three to four days and then come back in. I tell him that I can't because I'm literally legally blind without my contacts on and I can't just disappear for four days and it's not like I have glasses that I can wear in the meantime. He insists that I keep my contacts off for four days. I tell him to just give me the same prescription I had last time. He says he can't. I leave.
I go to another eye doctor. Same ish.
So I come home and did what any blue blooded American would do -- I get on the internets and order my contacts from Canada. They'll be here in the morning.
But WTF? How can a system be so F'ed with restrictions and rules aimed at keeping these peeps rich that I'm forced to put the health of my eyes in my own hands ... or some Canadians hands or whatever. Whatever happened to common sense?
I am ready to join you on the Canada thing. My oldest has GERD and after months of trying different medications, we finally found one that helps him...Nexium. We're still waiting for my insurance to approve it.
Insurance companies suck.
Dude, just leave your contacts out. sit close to the tv, stay home, tell kori to get her ass in the kitchen and make you some pie.
Good luck. There's no generic for Nexium, is there?
We had the same problem with Protonix.
No generic and our insurance company doesn't want to cover it.
They'd rather we use a different class of drug that has a generic...but guess what? That one doesn't work.
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America and timvp are both resourceful. If you can't get it here, bring it here.
Dude, I can't see ish. I can put my face to the screen and barely see.
And I'm eating my pie already.
God Bless E20.
If Helen Keller could do it blind and unable to hear, and maybe even bake a pie to boot, I'd say you better man-up!
If I were an alcoholic or a heroin addict I could go check myself into rehab and my insurance would pick up most of the tab. I want a prescription for something that has been proven to help people get off nicotine, and I'm out of luck.
Actually, now that I think about it ... I'm pretty sure that extra tax money being raked in on the latest sin tax on cigarettes could fund a great program to assist people financially with an aid to quit smoking. Bas s.
Nope. And if I buy it outright, it's like $165 for a months supply.Good luck. There's no generic for Nexium, is there?
We had the same problem with Protonix.
No generic and our insurance company doesn't want to cover it.
They'd rather we use a different class of drug that has a generic...but guess what? That one doesn't work.
We tried Protonix, Zantac + some other acid reducer. He also has gastritis. The Zantac, etc worked pretty much during the day, but he has woken up pretty much every night since May. I then took him to a Gastroenternologist, who did an endoscopy (he also had an upper GI and was tested for H. pylori). After that, he was put on Prevacid (which took a while for my insurance to approve), which didn't help, so then we tried Zegerid, which is, I think, the same thing as Prilosec only with added baking soda. That made EVERYTHING worse. So we decided to try Nexium and if that didn't work, they were gonna do a CAT scan of his stomach. Luckily, it worked and he's finally been able to sleep through the night. Knock wood.
Luckily, I was able to get more samples from his doctor until they approve, but if they don't I'm gonna either have to pay outright or go the Canadian route.
Back then, she could have gotten glasses without jumping through a hoop.
And I'm sure with the right instructions Helen Keller could learn how to make a pie.
you don't have even an old pair of glasses just in case you ever need them?
My God S y, what you've gone through and the insurance companies make it worse.
I assume they paid their portion for the tests, why can't they pay for the medicine?
My backup pair of glasses got shattered playing basketball and my main glasses are somewhere in Vegas.
So I gotta sit here in my contacts that hurt my eyes when I blink ... until Canada can come to my rescue.
ahh ok. perservere. maybe you should look into some prescription kareem style rec specs.
Sounds more like a medical issue, than an availability issue.
I don't see how having your eyes get back to normal, equals bending over for drug companies and the health care industry being screwed up.
Yeah, let me see what else Canada has to offer....
Exactly!! That doesn't even make sense.My God S y, what you've gone through and the insurance companies make it worse.
I assume they paid their portion for the tests, why can't they pay for the medicine?
And for the endoscopy, what the doctor billed and what they paid was a slap in the face to the doctor. I expect them to knock it down, but this was ridiculous. But my husband's in the same boat...you're at the mercy of the insurance companies. He can bill whatever, but he can't fight what they pay because he wants to keep the contract with them.
Eye doctors suck. I have a small mole on one of my eyes since birth and they all tell me to get it removed even though it's not hurting anything. Why the am I going to go through eye surgery that doesn't correct my vision and can cause permanent blindness to remove something that doesn't need removing?!?!
I've worn contacts for 20 years and I never got glasses until probably 5 years ago.
Sounds like a common sense issue to me.
You don't see how regulations that force both drug companies and doctors to profit has anything to do with this?
The answer, of course, is greater governmental involvement.
Well there is a medical issue. Soft (hydrophilic) contacts are full of water, so oxygen cannot circulate to the iris. This causes more capillaries to grow to try to get more oxygen to the eye (ancillary circulation). What results is a flattened iris from which no accurate readings can be taken. Everyone who wears soft contacts for a long time will have this; sleeping in contacts makes it much worse faster. Eventually the capillaries can grow enough to affect your vision. The solution is to keep the contacts out or wear hard contacts (they can circulate oxygen) until the capillaries shrink. You can't really blame the doctor----he doesn't want to take your money for something he can't do AND he doesn't want to be responsible for a loss of vision. I guess if you need to place a blame somewhere it should go the high cost of malpractice insurance.
I guess if you need to place a blame somewhere it should go the high cost of malpractice insurance
Tort reform, loser pays, make it harder to pull off bull lawsuits and it will go down.
if he wants to wait 3 days for an eye to correct itself, i doubt theres some paper pusher in DC writing that up.You don't see how regulations that force both drug companies and doctors to profit has anything to do with this?
Sounds more medical.
The answer, of course, is greater governmental involvement.
Get Hillary, Barack, or Guiliani involved, and I'm sure thats their solution.
kori still needs to get her azz in the kitchen and make you some pie.
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