Time for a rant
I had ANOTHER Doctor's appointment today, with my pulmonologist of all people, and we got into over whether or not to medicate my mild depression. The more I think about our discussion the more pissed I get, so behind the cut is the rant, read on at your own risk.
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Rule #1 (learned from my grandpa, a surgeon, over dinner tables) - Doctors should never perform the most invasive procedure first.
If this helps you with your self-advocacy, please feel free to use it:
I have maintained, with my therapists (who haven't seen me for over a year) that my mood is not the problem. Social and personal conditions to which my mood is a reaction are the problem. I want to solve the social and personal conditions; I cannot *solve* my mood. Do not speak of my mood as being separate from the other symptoms resulting from the base causes of my condition. You want to help my mood? Actually work on my conditions, not the symptoms, and my mood *will* improve.
The Administrative Law Judge just gave my SSI case a Fully Favorable Decision, and then said at the very end: "These conditions should improve with appropriate medical care". As if I, or anyone else at the moment, can *get* "appropriate" medical care.
You and me, we be Poster Children for the New Revolution in Health Care. My torch, your pitchfork; the best thing that could happen to our economy AND our healthcare system would be for "insurance" to be recognized as the scam it is, and outlawed.
My only advice (I know, you asked for none, but) "Fight, fight, fight!" Don't let them do anything you don't understand *fully*, and know I have your back, as you've had mine. I love you. Always.
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But I do have to note that my insurance wasn't really the issue. They paid out over $152,198 for me this year and I only had to pay a bit over $4,000. Unfortunately, that was money that wasn't in the budget.
I guess my gripe boils down to they treated the cancer, but not me.
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Then yell at them about that. And if they respond, "Well, what do you want us to do?", tell them that they need to figure that out. This is the first time you have gone through something like this, but they (theoretically) have had other people go through it, and you want ANSWERS. They are supposed to know what is going on -- they just need a wake-up call (well, maybe a rant) that they are only doing half the job. Get them to do the other half, or get them to find you someone else who will do it.
Good luck! My thoughts *are* with you.
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I had the same experience with GD and other issues in the pregnancy.
Nothing like spending 7 months being treated as a defective incubator. (Mind you, they didn't treat Beekman either. As far as I could tell, they were treating their malpractice insurances.)
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