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@4kleo
I'm glad to hear you were tenacious about getting a referral and appointment to a neurologist. I'm afraid you're correct about advantage plans. They seem so good from the financial investment side, but if you get sick and need to jockey around among specialists to meet your healthcare needs, it can be a problem.
I'm worried that all of us on Medicare will only have advantage plans to choose from, fraught with all of their limitations. Fingers crossed.
I have yet to fully understand the relationship between the pain and the neuropathy. One would think as the nerves are damaged that there would be less pain rather than more. The pain in my feet is really quite severe when it raises it's ugly head. Other times, I forget about it entirely. It does impact my balance and that's a concern. I used to see older people hobbling around and thought that they must be terribly out of shape but I was a distance walker prior to neuropathy. It's incredible how fast it changes your lifestyle.
I do hope that your appointment in April helps. Will you let us know how things go?