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I just spend $3000 on medical things this month and I live in a country with goddamn socialised healthcare. I realise things could be a lot worse, especially since I'm able to not have health insurance and still get decent care, but ffs, I do not like dropping $1000 on glasses and $2000 on a machine that will let me actually breathe when I sleep. I'm grateful that it wasn't more, but still.

What's bugging you today, f!s?

Same Anon: and I failed at reading that there was a venting thread upthread. GO ME. In my defence, aforementioned not breathing when I sleep makes for some fantastic brainfog.

You sound Canadian like me and just as blind as I am. Even with my "health insurance," I only get $200 every two years to spend on optometrist expenses. At that rate, I can afford to get a new pair of glasses about every six years if I'm careful about which frames I choose, but I can't get the checkups I need to determine my prescription and make sure my eyes are otherwise healthy. Oh, but the $200 doesn't roll over if I don't spend it, so really the "every six years" bit isn't terribly accurate. Thank god for employment income.

I'm Canadian too and have always bought extra insurance for vision and dental (which used to be covered in BC, depending on your income level, but now you have to pay an addition premium for Medicare(!!) out there now), and my lenses are $175 each (yeah I'm blind as a bat and the extra cost is so they won't be Coke-bottle-bottom glasses, like the first pair I ever got were). Now I'm double-insured and only paying half the premium for one set (my employer's), which helps. But I'm still not eligible for new glasses till next year, and will probably end up dropping extra on the frames, too.

I think OP's in the UK though ("socialised") but I agree the CPAPs need to be listed. I think they are here, but you may have to go through a little red tape to apply for one....

My lack of z gave me away XD

We get an electricity rebate for having the machine, at least, which is something. And I might be able to get a rebate if I can prove that it's "medically necessary", but it may not fall under that category since I won't actually die if I don't have it, I'll just feel like crap because I'm not breathing or sleeping right.

Australian, actually! And the problem at the moment is that my eyes are stupidly sensitive so the slightest change in my prescription requirements mean I need new glasses or my migraines get worse. And I have to have six-monthly checkups because I've got a more brittle case of diabetes than most and am prone to eye aneurysms.

$200 doesn't sound like nearly enough for optometrist expenses o_O I'm lucky in that the optometrist I go to bulk-bills so I don't have to pay anything up-front and Medicare takes care of the consultation fees, but paying for the glasses themselves is still expensive because I need a pretty hefty prescription.

I'm not sure what your specific issues are (whether you need something beyond -10 or have a beyond average cylinder or something), but buying glasses online would probably save you a great deal of money in the long run. If you're worried, try buying one super-cheap experiment pair (zennioptical's cheapest frame + lenses deals are around 8 dollars now, I think) and if you're happy with it, that would make keeping up to date on both your prescription and your personal style desires a financial possibility. My insurance covers NOTHING, neither eye-exams nor glasses (apparently, -5 does not "significantly effect my life") so this is pretty much the only way I survive without going absolutely broke.

I have to get all my wisdom teeth removed, and even with some health/dental benefits significantly lowering the cost, I'm still trying to scrape up the money to get it done.

I'm bugged with how dry my face feels. I have not much to be bugged about atm :(

My back is always hurting :( Normally lower back but today is right up in the upper area, kinda where arm muscles attatch so it hurts to reach forward. Onto day 3 of it hurting this way, like the 3rd month of perpetual back pain in someway

Pretty sure it's the computer set ups at work with tiny low desks and shitty chairs

Can't do anything about it
Can't afford a chiro
just chugging pain killers every day and deep heat every night

Seizure anon here.

Man, I'm sorry to hear about that. It's always really disheartening to find out you have to bear the brunt of cost to be healthy.

Even while I'm in the healthcare clusterfuck known as the US, I'm lucky enough to be so poor that I'm covered under Medicaid. Which is especially lucky, because a few of the tests I'll be undergoing are prohibitively expensive.

But one of my tests is tomorrow, and I'm still pretty nervous about it. I'm just used to medical tests in general, and something as big as this has me rattled. I kind of wish I had a friend to come with me, but I'm not that close to anyone here to ask them along. :(

My girlfriend has gone through tests for epilepsy because she's got migrainous vertigo that sometimes presents with seizures, and while the tests themselves can be pretty nerve-wracking, she says they're pretty decent as far as not having side effects or the like. I hope everything goes okay <3

Do you have sleep apnea (I think that's what it's called)?

Got it in one. Not a life-threatening thing (at least, not at the level I have it) but not using the machine makes me feel so awful. So it'll be worth the $2000, but still.

Man. So if it were life-threatening would it have been covered?

In a place where you pay a whole bunch of taxes for healthcare you'd think stuff that fits the "baseline requirement for normal functioning" would be covered, even if it's not going to outright kill you.

(Forgive me, but I don't see the other venting thread. I've scrolled through the GC and ctrl+F'd and all I see are Halloween threads, one about Thor 2, and the slash wank one. That said... tmi ahead.)

"Masturbate all the time!", said the cool sexually liberated older women on the internet to my young impressionable self, "An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away!"

They didn't tell me that investing in a good vibrator was more than a personal preference and that not doing so would result in extremely painful carpal tunnel syndrome!

Although I'm sure some of it is due to computer use and video games, but I think the majority of it is from this.

Consider this a cautionary tale. Also, ow.

They didn't tell me that investing in a good vibrator was more than a personal preference and that not doing so would result in extremely painful carpal tunnel syndrome!

I never thought of this. Now I want to buy a vibrator. But I like a strong buzz, and finding one that is quiet enough for me to feel comfortable in my thin-walled apartment keeps me from doing such. Honestly, vibrators and porn without headphones are 40 to 60 percent of the reason I want a house (depending on when you ask).

Er, actually, I'd blame the computer use and video games more.

I've been masturbating regularly for the better part of 40 years, and vibrators are either "ho hum" on the low settings to "OW!" on the higher ones, so my hand is what I've got.

No carpal tunnel at all! Or hairy palms! *waves hands*

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