Terri,
If you don't find a way to settle down a little you will through yourself into a flare and than the rest won't really matter any more. You have to figure out what is the most important at the moment and then work on it and then the next one. I would say it is the doctor that is the problem at the moment. To often doctors are now about quanity instead of quality not the way it is to be. If it were me I would be calling the doctors office and telling them that you were in to see the doctor he talked to you for like 5 min. and then left you still had concerns to talk to him about and are calling for a phone conf. (to avoid yet another office visit charge and 2 hours trip) to talk about your blood work and meds. Try to remember that You are not being rude just forceful with your care. I would also talk to their billing manager and let her know that you are contacting your insurance company about the treatment you did not get at your last visit and see what you can do about fighting the charges being billed to the insurance company when it was a 5 min. visit and nothing was done or talked about to help you at all. We have to take charge of our care if we don't no one else will.
It seems that you have a full plate to handle at the moment. Your care is at the top of the list because if you are not healthy then none of the other stuff will matter. I hope you start feeling better soon.
If you don't find a way to settle down a little you will through yourself into a flare and than the rest won't really matter any more. You have to figure out what is the most important at the moment and then work on it and then the next one. I would say it is the doctor that is the problem at the moment. To often doctors are now about quanity instead of quality not the way it is to be. If it were me I would be calling the doctors office and telling them that you were in to see the doctor he talked to you for like 5 min. and then left you still had concerns to talk to him about and are calling for a phone conf. (to avoid yet another office visit charge and 2 hours trip) to talk about your blood work and meds. Try to remember that You are not being rude just forceful with your care. I would also talk to their billing manager and let her know that you are contacting your insurance company about the treatment you did not get at your last visit and see what you can do about fighting the charges being billed to the insurance company when it was a 5 min. visit and nothing was done or talked about to help you at all. We have to take charge of our care if we don't no one else will.
It seems that you have a full plate to handle at the moment. Your care is at the top of the list because if you are not healthy then none of the other stuff will matter. I hope you start feeling better soon.
