What you mean is, your HMO has had to dust off the "not medically necessary" stamp.
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Do every test available for prevention and prophylaxis.
Get your general practitioner to do a full health check, ECG, EEG, cardiac ultrasound, a full blood panel, bloodpressure, pulmonary function, skin cancer prevention ect.
Schedule a gastroscopy and colonoscopy.
Check in with an urologist to get your prostate and urinary tract checked.
If you can, get a full body scan. Either PET or MRI.
Nearly every serious disease or health issue is easier prevented or treated when caught before it casues real issues.
Every cancer there is, has a better outcome and is easier treated when found early. Most of them are silent until very late in the game.
This is something I would recommend to anyone: Take advantage of every preventative messure or examination that is available to you!
There is no illness that you can detect too early.
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When this happened for me, I went and refilled my sumatriptan injections as fast as I could and actually used those for two years afterwards, it did save me money. If you need any extra dermatologist stuff, mental health, physical therapy, do it now.
Similar boat. Getting my snoring looked into. Got a sleep study done and now I'm having an ent do a scoping to see what's actually vibrating and what can be done.
This is a major one!
Sleeping is a third of your day. There's a lot of health issues that result from bad sleep/snoring. and the worse is that you'll never even know it.
My wife had a sleep specialist provide helpful strategies after her pregnancy and her back pain stopped.
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Dentistry. This shit is always hard to get for free so you should do everything you can.
Not covered by my health insurance, or even most health insurances in the US. We have special horrible dental insurance for that.
Ew, i'm not even surprised, this seems to be trend in all capitalist countries, in Poland dentistry also went to shit after 1989 and even worse after 1999 healthcare reform.
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Start a fist fight with a random stranger!
(not me please)
Thatβ¦can have other consequences besides medical.
Is anything cracking or sore more than it should be? Time to go get that treated.
I say blow your free healthcare on something frivolous and fun.
See if they'll swap your left kidney with your right one.
Frivolous? Yes. Fun? π¬π¬π¬
The surgeon deserves a little fun too
A surgeon can have a little fun as a treat.
If you're on any expensive meds, now'd be a good time to get them refilled. ...and 'my backpack got stolen!' them and get them refilled again if that's covered.
If you've got anything you think needs to be addressed with any urgency at all, skip the normal process and go to the ER to complain about your symptoms, especially if you've got ANY pain in your abdomen or tenderness in your lower back (which could mean kidney stones).
Infact, even if you don't have pain, go in and tell them you feel nauseous after eating anything greasy or fatty, and you'll get a free ultrasound of your gallbladder to see if there's any stones in there. ...don't actually accept surgery to remove it unless there are stones that look like they're for sure going to be problematic, cuz you WILL have symptoms once it's gone (eating will make you feel like shit... your body should adjust eventually, but that's not a guarantee, and it can take anywhere from a few months to years).
So, if they offer a scan or any diagnostic, do it. If they offer surgery, have a long think about whether it's actually worth doing.
Not only refill your meds, but there are places where you can get 90 day prescriptions filled, so you can go into the new year with several months of pills already ready.
The ER idea is brilliant, especially because I just moved here and donβt have a PCP yet. Even better, I can hit up urgent care every day!
Yeah your biggest obstacle right now is going to be "our next available appointment is in 4 months", so ER is the way passed that. It's not super ethical, but neither is the way our healthcare system operates, so do what you gotta do.
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