[ SECRET POST #1958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1958 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

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[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit. Once again I feel incredibly lucky to live in a society where the system is such that if I need to see a doctor, I can go and see a doctor. I don't know the series you're talking about, but I really hope things work out for you, that the problems are fixable and that you can see a doctor soon.

[(Anonymous)]

This makes me so sad.
Every time I read something like this I´m so thankful I live in a country where you can go to a hospital and receive the health care you need -most of the times, at least- without paying a penny..., even if it´s a third world country.
I honestly hope things get better for you and you get health care you need.
No one should go through what you´re going through.

[copperiisulfate.livejournal.com]

i'm very sorry to hear this and i hope you, in some shape or form, get the care you need. i do want to say that you should never ever feel stupid or selfish for being sick and i'm sorry if anyone has ever made you feel that way.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have anything quite as serious as you, but I'm in a similar situation. I don't have insurance, money, or access to a doctor and I've been getting progressively sicker this last year. Not sure what it is, but it's not going away and is getting worse. I'll have to check out that show to see if it works for me.

[azure15.livejournal.com]

People might rag on the NHS but we get free medical treatment, and we get it fast. I could make an appointment with a doctor tomorrow if I wanted to, and I wouldn't pay a thing. It's.. so wrong that some countries make it so that people have to suffer like this.

We really are lucky. OP, I really hope it all works out for you.

[(Anonymous)]

And that is the reason why we need to fight to keep it! This current government is slowly selling out to private medical firms. Soon we will be no better off than our American sibs, scared to go to a doctor because we cannot afford the bills or insurance.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish you the best in finding a way to get it checked, OP. When you do, have 'em go straight to the thyroid. I'm no expert so I can't say goiter or cancer, but I'm a sufferer and the symptoms you list are familiar.

[(Anonymous)]

I second the thyroid vote. I can't say which one it is either, but it sounds like the likely culprit. You know, since you're saving up for the doctor, if you can, start treating yourself at least with food or herbal medicine for now if you can afford it. Eating lots of vegetables and fruit may at least help the healing process. You can check http://naturalliving.livejournal.com/tag/thyroid to see if there's anything you can do yourself.

[eaemilia.livejournal.com]

Thirding this. My mom had problems with her thyroid, and this sounds like some of the stuff she went through.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here

Thank you so much for your concern and suggestions. When I do (finally someday) go to a doctor, I will definitely have them check the thyroid.

I'm wondering myself, because isn't your thyroid down low, under your voice box? My lump is up high, near the pulse point, under my jaw. But I know next to nothing about this stuff, just what I could google about lumps in necks.

[(Anonymous)]

What country are you from? If the US, what state? There are charities and low cost/sliding scale clinics in many areas that may be able to help, especially if it's as bad as what you're describing. And *hug*. The lack of health care is frankly criminal. I'm in a not-as-urgent boat, myself, so I really, really do know that is sucks. And finally, it's not your fault you're sick.

I hope you get better. <3

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit dude...I hope you're able to someday see a doctor, because while I'm not one, that sounds like you might be getting a goiter (thyroid problem).

[nyxelestia.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel, OP. I'm on my dad's insurance and I always feel guilty about having to go to a doctor, even if it's something we only need to co-pay for. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, you have insurance (insurance you don't pay for) and you know how the OP (who has no access to medical care) feels? Sure, it sucks that you have to feel guilty about going to the doctor but many people who pay for their own insurance also feel that way because of having to take time off from work, pay the copay and/or deductible, etc. But I don't understand how that's analogous to having no insurance and no access to healthcare. That's like somebody who lives in their parents' house and eats their parents' food saying that they understand how somebody who's starving and homeless feels, you know?

[velvetalchemist.livejournal.com]

I, too, am jumping on the thyroid conclusion. My mom has hypothyroidism and it sounds a bit like what she went through when she was a teen. Everyone thought I had it as well, but I gained weight, not lost. Thyroid was fine. Turns out I have PCOS. Took a decade to find a doctor who would take me seriously, though. Anyway, I feel your pain on doctor costs. I never go if I can avoid it, but last november I came down with what I thought was the flu and went jaundiced, ended up in the E.R. two days in a row, and now I'm pretty much starving myself to pay my hospital bills lest I be sent to a collection agency and have my credit trashed. Anyway, I would look into financial aid if it's available, or maybe try to find a local health clinic that works on a sliding scale based on income.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been trying to ignore/deny the fact that my credit is probably trashed all to hell because of medical bills from years ago. I had health insurance and it didn't help. In fact it fucked me over more, because of the specialty places I had to go wouldn't allow me to apply for financial assistance because it went to my insurance.


/over-sharing of my financial woes


To the OP: I hope you can get to a doctor soon. It sucks wanting to go and not be able to. I second the financial aid/finding a local health clinic with a sliding scale (which is something that never even occurred to me; I just assumed that all the health places in my area were of the "this is the price and that's final" school of thought)/

[(Anonymous)]

Good luck, OP. Uncertainty is scary, even when you have good access to healthcare and paying for it isn't an issue.

Don't ever feel guilty about being sick or hurt. There are all kinds of things that can happen to anyone that have nothing to do with choices or lifestyle. Good, upstanding people get sick all the time. Smart people get sick all the time. I've known athletes and vegetarians who've had major health problems. I know a woman who had no family history, no other risk factors, and breast fed her kids for years and still got breast cancer. Shit happens and it shouldn't be a moral issue. You're not selfish or stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

Likewise, people with different "choices or lifestyle(s)" are not stupid, bad, or un-upstanding. Nobody deserves to get sick. Nobody has the right to judge.

[anonlulz.livejournal.com]

That sucks. Hope you can get to a doctor soon.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Sounds like most of my symptoms for the several years I couldn't afford insurance or care, too. Kept getting more and more tired and sick. Turned out I was hypothyroid and had severe sleep apnea; I hope yours is no more serious than those. And if you have to go into debt for diagnosis and some treatment, DO IT, if you at all can. Please.

[(Anonymous)]

Any chance that you you could tell us where OP? I totally understand privacy, so only if you're comfortable, but sometimes someone knows of hidden local help for things like this.

Either why you have my sympathy and understanding, I've been saving up forever to get new glasses, but that's not near as dangerous as a lump.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here; I live in upstate NY on the eastern edge of Lake Ontario. Local help would be nice, but I have no way to get there, and I'm going to keep this away from my family. They have enough problems as it is without me asking them to bring me to a doctor.

When this all first started some years ago, I lost about 15 lbs in a week, and slowly lost more over time. Even though I was asleep more often than I was conscious, my family didn't bring me to a doctor. They couldn't have afforded it, and I don't think they understood how serious that was.

I can't ask them now. I know that sounds stupid and self destructive, but they have way too much to worry about.

Thank you so much for your concern, it really does help, though.

[fuchsiascreams.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is so bad. I'm so sorry that you can't afford health care. Sometimes I take for granted the fact that I live in a country where I have constant free access to health care (Canada, and I'm on disability, so I basically don't have to pay for anything). This really makes me see how incredibly privileged and fortunate I am.

I really, really hope that you can find a way to be able to see a doctor. It's so sad and unfair that there are people in this world who do not have access to affordable health care.

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, anon. Sending you all the best wishes. I really hope you get to see a doctor very soon.