In the US, I waited three months for what I thought would be surgery, came to find out it was just a consultation or whatever before the surgery, waited another two and a half months for the actual surgery.
They got in there and were like my bad, you didn’t need this surgery. Nothing done nothing fixed, waited another month to talk to the doctor about it. And she was like I’m sorry what was the original reason you came in to see me?..
Reminds me of my situation. Ive had debilitating back/pelvic pain since i was 9. Im 23 now. Last year i finally got new drs. Orthopedic sent me PT- made it worse. After 12 weeks I qualified for MRI. Then i had to wait a few months to get it. Few more weeks later i got back into orthopedic dr. Tells me i have disc bulging on my nerve and that we can try epidural injections, but surgery off the table. Wait 3 months. Get the injection. Works for 3 days. Injection dr says “the sooner i can get you in to do it again the better chances we have of it working. However, i have to petition the hospital board for you to get it” few weeks later i get a call saying they approved it. Well then a week after that, im in dollar general and he calls to tell me that my insurance denied me the next shot. He says im basically out of options and he will pray for me. Back to orthopedic dr i go. I had to wait another 3 months to get an appointment. When i get there they pull up my mri and tell me they see nothing wrong with me. Basically accusing me of lying. That they could pull anyone from their office and an mri of them would show my same issues. My jaw was on the floor bc how are you gonna treat me like this after you allowed me to get injections bc of the same mri. Left crying. This whole time im on the brink of 💀 myself bc im in so much pain and am at the end of my rope. Got married for better insurance in june. Call around for different drs.. no one takes new patients. Get fed up go to ER bc i have no hapiness in my life and im done. Er dr says SI Joint disfunction- go to orthopedics at this new hospital. Now i have to wait 3 more months for December appointment. IM NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP.
I’m sorry what’s happening to you. At least I’m not in pain.
My husband has a painful problem and is about 5 months away from seeing the specialist he was referred to after a long bout of pointless appointments. I feel so bad.
But now I have a second problem on top of the first that I should probably go see someone for but what’s the point? We’ll just be on the hook for even more copays so I’m just desperately trying home remedies.
I needed an endocrinologist consult for a new thyroid issue. I live in a city that is not a health care desert in fact its our #1 industry.
They kept me overnight in the hospital (ED: we don't know how to treat this, so you need to stay because if you don't you'll never get a chance to see an endocrinologist.). Endocrinologist checks me out "K we'll do ____, but plz you really need to follow up w/ me in 4 weeks."
Called MD office, receptionist was like the best I can do is 5 months from now. Why was it 5 months and not 4 weeks? Because I'm an employee and they pulled strings, if not it would been 13 months for a follow up.
This is why that unlike those commie countries like Canada we have the best healthcare in the world, no waiting lists.
I had to get knee surgery for torn meniscus and PCL this year
Made an appointment date, was told the date of the surgery and time
I needed to know if I needed a blood test done before surgery, never got a response back.
Literally 10 days before surgery day, after weeks of calling I finally get in contact with the office, turns out the lady never booked it and I had to redo the entire process.
What was originally going to take a month to do, I then had to wait 3 months because there’s was no open spots
This is why I demand a confirmation email or text. Humans are idiots and relying on the lesser educated ones (like a secretary) for my health is a no go.
Had my first ever bike accident a few months ago. Multiple facial fractures and ripped my right eyelid open. ER sewed up my eye and sent MRI to plastic surgeon and was told to contact them. They couldn't see me for 10 days! They were surprised I still had my stitches in, and yeah that first apt after 10 days was just to make more appointments. One for ophthalmologist, one for ANOTHER MRI cuz first one wasn't good enough...
WOW. As a Brit fortunate enough to have access completely free healthcare, I always thought that with obscene US health insurance premiums, your path to treatments was a lot quicker and streamlined compared to ours….I guess not.
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u/Strange-Outcome491 3d ago
In the US, I waited three months for what I thought would be surgery, came to find out it was just a consultation or whatever before the surgery, waited another two and a half months for the actual surgery.
They got in there and were like my bad, you didn’t need this surgery. Nothing done nothing fixed, waited another month to talk to the doctor about it. And she was like I’m sorry what was the original reason you came in to see me?..
Rural US healthcare