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New member looking for advice on doctors and navigating illness
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: 8 hours ago | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Thank you so much for your response, Barbara. That is heartening news. Again I see how many things we have in common. For my last birthday, my daughter, her dad and several friends put their resources together to gift me a couple of sessions and additional testing at the functional medicine/holistic clinic that helped my daughter, and which is extremely expensive and out-of-pocket. I was able to get about half of the testing covered by Kaiser and the rest had to be out of pocket, luckily with a 70% discount—but still around $400.00. At the first visit, the P.A. that saw me at the clinic asked to see my tongue when I told her I had been on antibiotics for two years and observed that it was completely coated in white—a clear sign of candida. That has been the case for decades. She immediately said that though they seldom prescribe pharmaceuticals, she wanted to prescribe systemic Nystatin and some lozenges for thrush to try to get at a better baseline to restore the health of my microbiome, which we are learning is so important to overall health. In two weeks I go for my second appointment, and I just completed the course of Nystatin.
Barbara, would you be willing to share what your supplemental insurance is? It sounds great. Finally, I sent you a direct message several days ago and was wondering if you had seen it.
I always appreciate your insights.
Aida
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Yes Nystatin was the medication I was on when I had the Candida. I also was very careful with what I ate, as I am now, once I learned about a yeast infection due to antibiotics. In my case with having disability insurance I was able to go on disability leave from teaching, it was that debilitating. As you know working with a chronic health problem is difficult and therefore difficult to help oneself fully.
My health insurance is with the State due to my being a teacher so it is not one of the typical insurance companies.
I may have done something incorrectly if you didn't receive my direct message because I did write a reply to your direct message.
If you are not on Medicare and do not qualify for Medicare as yet you will have the opportunity to choose what company you would like to have as the carrier for a Supplement Insurance to Original Medicare. If you are not as yet on Medicare there is a great deal of information on the internet about when and how to apply. There are guidelines about how, when, where and the importance of knowing that once you make a decision, if a person chooses an Advantage Plan and then decides they made a mistake and you want to go to a Supplement Plan you have an extremely short window to change. If you wait too long after choosing an Advantage Plan you will be subject to the insurance carriers underwriting department and a person can be turned down if they have a health condition that the insurance company doesn't want to be insuring a person for. A Supplement Plan to Medicare, I believe, makes life a lot easier in several ways. You may already know this.
Research, decisions and timing is everything, in almost everything.
Just hope I am not holding off too long in taking the antibiotics since I feel well and have not had an exacerbation. Looking forward to my talk the end of the month with my BE pulmonologist.
Hope you are having a good weekend.
Barbara