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Originally Posted by awkwardlyyours
Go ahead and email her, I say.
The amount of stuff you’re dealing with is just.... 
I don’t know your insurance situation but for my stuff, I went ahead and got two different “second” opinions (so on total three opinions) from not just specialists but very specialized specialists.
Two of those places are actually ranked among the top places in the country but I was like whatevs, it is my health.
A couple of the docs got super pissed and like grade-school sulky that I’d gkne to other docs (they could see it from the common medical software system) but I basically just ignored it — turned out that while the overall broad assessment was pretty similar, the specific nuances on how they wanted to treat me were crucially different.
If at all you can do it, I highly recommend the practice of getting second, third or even fourth opinions (assuming you haven’t already done it — in which case, totally ignore the above soapbox piece). |
Thanks so much. I will keep this in mind. Right now, I am in managed hell care, so my options are limited to what I can nag my doctor into referring me to. Before this news, I had already met my annual out of pocket limit and my therapist had suggested I bill for my therapy since my record is already maligned by other mh professionals, so I said yeah, let's do that, so the rest of the year is covered at 100% which is pretty nice. I have paid boatloads of money into insurance over the years. It's weird to have it actually be a benefit.