Or just as bad, the government 🙄 Literally threatening doctors who prescribed painkillers. In Canada too, not just the US. Made me go to the hospital for a pee drug test 🙃 Thought I was selling my meds, or getting high from them. Ghu knows. Neither has happened, ever.

Slept well for a couple of hours...almost pain free with the meds and heating pad. I wish it was like that all the time 😪 That's it, about 2 hours of sleep at a time. For months...years really.

I mean, what does a medical professional know about medicine?

Exactly!

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Just got off the phone with insurance! They said I can file an appeal, or in 65 days my Dr can try to write it for something else but they’re not sure whether or not it’ll be covered then either. THANKS! 😑

Crazy that because I live in England if I was under 60 I would have to pay £9.90 per prescription, but if I lived in Scotland they would be free. But I am over 60 so it is all free anyway. My dentist once prescribed me a dozen tubes of toothpaste.

I swear it's led to a chicken and egg situation between doctors not wanting to order tests/prescribe things and insurance companies refusing to pay for ... anything

Especially if you can't take generic, but the insurance classified the name brand into a tier where they neither cover it, nor apply deductibles or copays toward it, costing you four grand a year.

Practicing medicine without a license and they get away with it. If insurance companies keep it up, there won’t be any physicians left.

While USA always have money to found the Genocide in Gaza

At @costplusdrugs.com your meds might be cheaper out-of-pocket than they would be elsewhere with your ins copay. They only carry generics, no name brands. It's worth checking out. (And no, I don't work for them. I'm just a happy customer. 🙂)

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Crazy-making.

I'll tell you what's crazy, America... Sorry. Punctuation error. My bad. Let me try again. I'll tell you what's crazy: America.

Or Medicare can say, “Gosh, it’s not in our formulary. That’ll be $130.” Happened to me this week, for an effective migraine med that’s been around since at least the 1970s.

That's why Luigi is so popular.

I fucking hate this soooo much!

Insurance. Good one. 🤣

Or the doctor wants to prescribe a mild pain reliever and is required to drug test you for completely unrelated illegal drugs before you can get the prescription.

I currently have really really low b12, did the blood work last week, and my insurance is like b12 injections? For what dummy? I feel for my Dr this week, having to fight for some friggin VITAMINS

Isn't it? Or they can tell you that there is a $1k co pay for 2 shots

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Nurtec. I went through 5 meds on medicaid that didn't work before nurtec was approved. Now that I am on cigna they say no.

It's also crazy when your Dr. prescribes the $1500/month medication and the insurance company goes "no, she has to get the $6500/month medication." On the plus side I hit my $8000 year deductible pretty quickly.

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It’s called practicing medicine without a license

As I found out recently, your doctor has to have seen you in the last twelve months to extend a prescription. The doctor who works for the insurance company, however, can deny your prescription without ever seeing you. Just sayin . . .

Been there, done that! And guess who it was? United Health Care!

Yup. And that's why no one gave a shit when that CEO got fucking stacked in the street. It's a fucking immoral sham, and our government is going to burn in fucking hell for it.

Trying to get my mom into hospice. Because she is just old, not w/ a "terminal" disease, we are at the mercy of a random hospice doc saying yay or nay. Because insurance won't cover mere palliative care for being old.