Re: how do you pay for treatments

[Guest guest]

If you are working full time do you have medical benefits? You simply need a referral from your Primary Care Physician. PCP's tend to like to diagnose these things themselves. Referrals cost them money so they are reluctant but it is your right under your plan to do so or switch PCP's. Get back to me with more specific details. Yours, Deborah

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:06 PM, angie_phea <angie_phea@...> wrote:

If you don,T HAVE INSURANCE or not getting disability what can i do to

see a rheumatologist.I,m working full-time also a lawyer will not

assist me at all.

[Guest guest]

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> If you don,T HAVE INSURANCE or not getting disability what can i do

to

> see a rheumatologist.I,m working full-time also a lawyer will not

> assist me at all.

>

I was diagnosed with RA over thirty years ago and the drugs gave me

ulcers three times so I went to health food stores and asked questions

and read books and the best information I found out was get a juicer

and drink fruit and vegetable juices and move to a drier climate. I

moved to Las Vegas bought a Champion juicer and have been using it ever

since. In '90 I moved back to Kansas to take care of my ailing mother

and by the time she passed away I was just too old to go back to Vegas

and it had grown so big that I didn't want to anyway. I live in a small

farm community with only two grocery stores and one pharmacy. I haven't

ever taken anymore of the doctor's medicine and I get around fairly well

yet. Of course I still have some pain but it isn't anything I can't

live with. If you want all of the pain to go away I guess you can take

their medicine but with all the horror stories I read I don't want

anything to do with any. When I went to Vegas I oould hardly pull

myself up the stairs but when I left I was running up them. And going

down hurts more than going up. Anyway either way the juices will help

you until you can afford to go see any rheumatologist if that is what

you want and buy a book on how to make juices as there are several

different ones listed then experiment on your own to learn which you

like best and which does the most good.

Budworthy

[Guest guest]

Hi Angie, I would talk with a rheumatologist's office about a payment plan. That's what I did when my rheumy didn't take my insurance and when I was unemployed briefly. Also, if a rheumy believes you can benefit from a biologic and you don't have insurance, most of the biologic companies will provide it for free. I received Remicade free for 3 treatments from Centocor when I was unemployed.Take care,Steph in VA

If you don,T HAVE INSURANCE or not getting disability what can i do to

see a rheumatologist. I,m working full-time also a lawyer will not

assist me at all.