@janeinnc Thanks for your prompt reply! I appreciate your advice, and help! My daughter, who is an RN, thought that I should have the effusion done at an effusion center too! With my polyneuropathy and Parkinson’s Disease, my hand dexterity is not what it used to be, so I didn’t think I could do it myself at home. I was in a quandary about that and what Medicare would pay! You solved my problem. I will talk with a patient advocate! Again, thanks a million! I’m so glad that Mayo provides this forum!

@janeinnc Thanks so much for your wise advice! I followed your advice, and found a patient advocate, who is, as I write this, lining up an infusion center referral. for me, where a nurse prepares and administers fusion I-V therapy, for my chronic, inflammatory, legs, feet, arms and hands centered polyneuropathy, which will be treated with gamma globulin medicine. I have low levels of gamma globulin, according to blood tests! So, perhaps this will give me some relief, from the annoying shooting down my legs ‘buzz like sensation’, which feels like an electric current! Could this be related to a loss within the myelin sheath of nerves, or am I merely speculating? Anyway, the constant tingling and buzzing wears on a person’s nerves after a while! Hope this solution works for me!

@janeinnc Update! My advocacy work paid off! The Doc. and office manager set up infusion. treatment for me, at an infusion center, and it is covered by Medicare and Medigap! I so appreciate your wise advice, on advicacy, to help me, in the situation I was in! 🤙