((((((Ami))))))

My insurance will not pay for the MRI of my back. I'll never get a diagnosis or the right medicine. I am so depressed.

That is not right...if your doctor recommends an MRI, he should be the one who determines whether or not you get one, not the insurance company.

It makes being ill so much worse...keep fighting to find out what's going on!! Do you have a teaching hospital nearby who might have a clinic that won't charge?

You seem stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Back to the primary today. Got the referral for back X-rays, both lower lumbar and Sacroiliac. Got a lower dose of gabapentin and weekly doses of Vitamin D. Also got a referral for PT to "strenghen my core". I am to the point where I'll try anything in case I find something that brings my life back.

Hi ami.....when a doctor tells us "its stress" or "your fine"...its very demeaning and invalidating and frustrating. Most of us here have had that experience more than once. ALWAYS get copies/discs of tests, reports, labs, and dr notes. and keep track of them. Your symptoms could be so many things and might be more than one thing. You just have to keep going until you find a doctor who listens and takes the time to figure it out.

Good luck and keep us up to date.

So now my medical insurance is dropping me as of 12/31. I don't know what this will do as far as which doctors I can keep.
I got my back x-ray tonight. Will know more in a couple of days.

can you COBRA?

I can't COBRA because I work. And I learned this new ObamaCare rules that if your employer offers Insurance you HAVE to get it there or through an independent source. My already monthly prescriptions are so expensive that I have to get the most expensive plan at work so with the cost of that and what I NOW will have to pay for scripts I have lost $750.00 a month from my income. That leaves me way below poverty level because I am single, so one income household. The only way I may have a chance of surviving is to get on permanent disability and get food stamps, heating assistance, welfare, medicaid, etc.See how this new plan saves the government money?
The problem is still don't have a diagnosis-sigh.
I hurt all the time, I am exhausted all the time and now through nothing I did I will soon be dirt poor.

Oh-and I have also a new, very strange symptom. There are these couple of muscles in my upper belly area that jump periodically. It looks and feels exactly like a baby moving. My doctor's reaction was "well we know there's no baby in there". Wow-l said looks and feels LIKE!
I am maybe crazy but have never been stupid, thank you doc.