Why do male doctors treat women like it's all in our head?

Well, the good news is my heart is okay, aside from being fast..bad news is I have two untreatable diagnosis..The pain and discomfort that felt like it was the heart are two seperate muscles that I somehow managed to permanently damage so I just gotta learn to deal with the pain and all cos there is medication to help, but I just so happen to be allergic to it. Yay

The other symptoms are attributed to Late Onset Tay Sachs (LOTS) disease

Still need a few more tests, then I have an appt with a specialist who will tell me everything about LOTS and learning how to live with it..At least I will now have the proof needed to get on medicaid to afford the care for it..No one in the family even knew my dad's side has some Jewish in them, only knew my mom was..

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EmBleve wrote:

Flutter Girl wrote:

I qualify for medicaid, but the problem with it is unless you have enough proof to satisfy them of your disability, you ain't gettin it. Medicaid denies more often than private health care. Both for getting on it, and then for getting any treatments..

This is interesting to me...what do you mean that you have to 'have enough proof to satisfy them of your disability'? Are you referring to the medical ailment that you are suffering from now (which, btw, I hope you get to the bottom of it ) I did not realize that even if someone is on Medicaid, treatment can be denied based on that fact alone. Is that what you mean?

With medicaid, if you are trying to get on it for a disability (as opposed to being elderly, or pregnant), you have to have a certain amount of proof. So like folks with mental disorders tend to get denied unless it's something like mental retardation where you can physically see there is something wrong. And even then, it's ridiculous. The lawyer I spoke to explained that if you are missing and arm and a leg, it doesn't matter. Even tho the judge and the medicaid doctors (who decide if you qualify) can plainly see you are missing a leg and an arm, unless you have a doctor note this in your medical records every 3 months, you will be denied medicaid coverage. For issues that you can't see, such as chronic depression or something like bipolar disorder, even if you do have a doctor noting it in your records every 3 months, you will still get denied. It's absolutely assinine.

Then, if by a miracle you do get on medicaid, you will get bottom of the bin service. Only health care coverage that denies more than medicaid is medicare. You'd think something like a cracked molar tooth(cracked all the way thru) would qualify as a necessity to get fixed, considering all the complications that not fixing it will lead to, right? Nope..Medicare catagorizes it as cosmetic..My friend had to pay out of pocket..after she saved up for months living with the pain..
Medicaid works much like the VA when it comes to what the government is willing to pay for...generic everything(with some things, this is not always ok), 20 year old outdated and inefficient treatments (cheaper than the newest stuff out there), and outright denial for a good number of treatments and medications that most folk would consider necessary, but medicaid and the VA do not. It took my mom 9 years to get the electric wheelchair that she qualified for..The excuse the VA told her for not giving it to her- "you're too young to be dependent on an electric w/c"....she wrecked her body struggling with a manual chair (and mine, as I was her care taker)...the same excuse was doled out to a fella who is a parapledgic with a feeding tube permanently inserted in his abdomen in a position that makes using a manual w/c excessively difficult. He actually already had the electric chair. They fed him this excuse so they could take it away and give him a walker. He's bedridden now without the chair. but I'm getting in to a rant now LoL..so I'll stop here cos I could go on for days about how horrible the VA healthcare system is...ever see the movie Article 99? It's too realistic.