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thesacredreznor replied to your post “well well this actually is a thing i’ve been procrastinating since…”
Yay you! I just got my health insurance sorted out and it hurts how expensive it is. So as someone who never goes to the doctor I’m starting to think maybe I should? I hate it so much though but on the other hand my hypothyroidism has been untreated for like 7 years now so I should just suck it up since I’m paying so much anyway. And I totally agree that making appointments just feels like an often insurmountable hurdle like i have to do what now?
It’s not fair, there should at least be online ways you can pick a PCP and have them actually be accepting patients, but there isn’t. But even when I had a doctor, when I asked to have my ADHD diagnosed, at first they were like pfft no, and then they were like ok fine here is a random phone number you should call it and the mysterious figure on the other end of it will begin your diagnosis process in some way I will not elaborate upon at this time. I still don’t fucking understand what that was supposed to be and have resigned myself that Treating Diseases Is Just For Other People, I Guess.
heartofoshun replied to your post “well well this actually is a thing i’ve been procrastinating since…”
I feel your pain. I have similar issues of dealing with my health insurance, making doctor’s appts, and it does not get easier with age but more critical. This is one reason among the list as long as my arm of why our health care system is screwed up and should be
I think this cut off but I am assuming the end of the sentence was killed with fire and I couldn’t agree more.
msilverstar replied to your post “well well this actually is a thing i’ve been procrastinating since…”
I wish I could do it for you. Do they have a website or app? I find that easier than a phone call myself.
So would I! It’s not that in my case it would be easier, it’s that it would be actually possible in the first place! I’ve heard people say their doctor has an app but I have literally never encountered such a thing. If I could fill out a form on a website and then pick an available appointment time, I would have made every appointment ever by now, but sadly, I don’t know anyone in real life locally for whom that’s a thing, so I’m sort of resigned. I also have a years-ago-I-didn’t-make-a-phone-call-so-I-have-no-doctor-and-don’t-know-how-to-find-one problem– my health insurance will give you a 400-page book full of doctors who say they’re accepting new patients, but aren’t, and the only way to find out is to call literally dozens of them and be rejected. (In, like, 85% of the cases, the listed number is wrong too.) I’d go back to the doctor I had before, but there was something weird with the paperwork last time i went to a doctor’s office sometime in about 2015, so it’s definitely too late to fix it now so I can never show my face there again, but I don’t know where else to go either, and since I get about a phone call a year and I spent it on fixing my tires, it won’t be something I can figure out in 2020!
So, it’s not going to happen. I’m just aware that it is never going to happen. But at least legally I am signed up so that it can. And, most importantly, if you don’t have health insurance you get fined, so at least I’m not getting fined.
thesacredreznor replied to your post “well well this actually is a thing i’ve been procrastinating since…”
Yay you! I just got my health insurance sorted out and it hurts how expensive it is. So as someone who never goes to the doctor I’m starting to think maybe I should? I hate it so much though but on the other hand my hypothyroidism has been untreated for like 7 years now so I should just suck it up since I’m paying so much anyway. And I totally agree that making appointments just feels like an often insurmountable hurdle like i have to do what now?
It’s not fair, there should at least be online ways you can pick a PCP and have them actually be accepting patients, but there isn’t. But even when I had a doctor, when I asked to have my ADHD diagnosed, at first they were like pfft no, and then they were like ok fine here is a random phone number you should call it and the mysterious figure on the other end of it will begin your diagnosis process in some way I will not elaborate upon at this time. I still don’t fucking understand what that was supposed to be and have resigned myself that Treating Diseases Is Just For Other People, I Guess.
heartofoshun replied to your post “well well this actually is a thing i’ve been procrastinating since…”
I feel your pain. I have similar issues of dealing with my health insurance, making doctor’s appts, and it does not get easier with age but more critical. This is one reason among the list as long as my arm of why our health care system is screwed up and should be
I think this cut off but I am assuming the end of the sentence was killed with fire and I couldn’t agree more.
msilverstar replied to your post “well well this actually is a thing i’ve been procrastinating since…”
I wish I could do it for you. Do they have a website or app? I find that easier than a phone call myself.
So would I! It’s not that in my case it would be easier, it’s that it would be actually possible in the first place! I’ve heard people say their doctor has an app but I have literally never encountered such a thing. If I could fill out a form on a website and then pick an available appointment time, I would have made every appointment ever by now, but sadly, I don’t know anyone in real life locally for whom that’s a thing, so I’m sort of resigned. I also have a years-ago-I-didn’t-make-a-phone-call-so-I-have-no-doctor-and-don’t-know-how-to-find-one problem– my health insurance will give you a 400-page book full of doctors who say they’re accepting new patients, but aren’t, and the only way to find out is to call literally dozens of them and be rejected. (In, like, 85% of the cases, the listed number is wrong too.) I’d go back to the doctor I had before, but there was something weird with the paperwork last time i went to a doctor’s office sometime in about 2015, so it’s definitely too late to fix it now so I can never show my face there again, but I don’t know where else to go either, and since I get about a phone call a year and I spent it on fixing my tires, it won’t be something I can figure out in 2020!
So, it’s not going to happen. I’m just aware that it is never going to happen. But at least legally I am signed up so that it can. And, most importantly, if you don’t have health insurance you get fined, so at least I’m not getting fined.
