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Many Appointments Scheduled but Months Out?
Visiting Mayo Clinic | Last Active: Jul 1 1:09pm | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
I will give you another option. Come to your first appointments, get an initial opinion (or in your case 2nd opinion) from provider and then discuss follow up appointments / tests and if any can be done locally or coordinated with your local providers. Explain the inability to keep coming back and forth to MN. Maybe after first appointment, some of the future appts will not be necessary.
It is hard to get initial appointments at Mayo, so I do not want to see you lose that opportunity.
It is harder to do tele-visits now seeing the provider has to be licensed in state where patient is. So that might not be an option, but if able to share tests from another location, might be more efficient.
Are any of the test scheduled at Mayo tests you have already had done? and if so have your shared results with Mayo?
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Laurie,
"It is hard to get initial appointments at Mayo, so I do not want to see you lose that opportunity."
I have 3 appointments in July 2024. My first appointment was last June 2023. I saw Dr. Dahl. Through the portal she requested this recent appointment. I want to continue my relationship with Mayo. My eGFR is hovering around 25 and gets worse over time. In 2017 it was 42 and gets worse every year. If a kidney transplant is needed, Mayo is where I want to go. It's my understanding I should continue yearly checks and appointments with Mayo in Rochester to keep that relationship. Is that correct.?
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I think it would be good to get a second opinion at Mayo clinic since they aren't able to figure out here, but it just seems like if it's just to do the one appointment and nothing else, it might be too much for all the travel!
I have shared all my results with them, quite a few of them! Around 10 spine and brain MRIs (they do them pretty frequently to monitor the lesions), along with a lot of eye tests (fluorescein angiography, fundus, oct, etc). They have those tests scheduled at Mayo but not until August and September.