Is your diagnosis for life?
After having to deal with my current medical conditions for over a decade now, it's made me ask myself a question, am I ever going to get any better?
With osteoarthritis in several joints, and undiagnosed neuropathy in my feet and now my hands, will any of it ever improve? Or have I received a life's sentence of chronic pain?
I don't see my situation ever improving, I'll be living like this for as long as I'm willing to put up with the pain. It's been 10 years now, and some days are harder than others. We've been struggling financially ever since I had to retire in 2015, but my awesome wife is still working 40+ hours a week to support us. How we'll get by when she retires(she's 61) is something that worries both of us.
The thought of any new medical bills that we'd be faced with if I have any additional osteoarthritis surgeries would put us even further into debt, which is something that I swore to myself that I'd never do. I'm not going to bankrupt ourselves, or our kids with a bunch of medical bills.
Unless they somehow develop a treatment for neuropathy that actually helps with the pain, or a treatment for osteoarthritis other than surgery and pain management, I'm going to be like this until the day I die.
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I'm in your boat, only i have psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia. In pain every day and add to that the nausea that I have. Just was released from our local hospital on Sunday the 16th. Intractable vomiting for the days immediately following an upper endoscopy.
My husband is 71, an accountant, trying to retire but worried my medical debt will break us.
Val F
i read that robert f kennedy, jr. feels that joint replacement for elderly is too much. i would like to know what instead he is working on to treat osteoarthritis
i left a few inquiries on rfk jr sites
i went to billing at the local hospital. they gave me paperwork for a program to help with medical bills. i was wanting to make payment plan. maybe you could get lucky too. and i own my house