Re:Re: Medicare and Provigil

[Guest guest]

Not sure where you live and not sure if you have seen this resource?:

http://www.co-cure.org/good-doc.htm

It can be a little outdated, but I found it helpful.

GG

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> I'll try that .

> The thing is my doctor did try a special authorization for it and they( the

insur co) refused it.

> He'd have to say I have narcolepsy or shift-work disorder.

> I can ask again but he didn't seem to want to bend the rules a bit.

> This doctor is a very nice man about my own age, easy going and not a jerk.

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> But unfortunately, I don't think he believes in Fibromyalgia.

> He keeps thinking I should exercise more, which *would* help, but it will

*not* cure me. He wants me to go to water aerobics or at least to swim, and I

would but have no car and never needed(before now) to drive. I lived in NYC all

my life and didn't need to.

> Now I'm in a medium/small city in the south and everything is quite different

here.

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> Anyway, he didn't say absolutely no to Ritalin but hasn't given it to me yet

either. (?)

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> Thanks for sharing information .

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