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Well today is my appointment with the SS doc, and I woke to a flare in my shoulder, I am tellin you I have never been so thankful for a flare! My appt is in 3 and half hours , so good luck to me! Good-luck Sherry!! Have a great day!! Hope all turns out well for you. Good luck - let us know how everything went when you can.Good luck Sherry!

Good Luck!!  I hope it goes smoothly and turns out well!!!

Good Luck Sherry!!

Peace & Love...Neasy

Good luck, will be looking for your update! OK guys, I think went very well, It was my right shoulder that was flared this morning and by the time i drove the 60 miles to the dr my right hand and right foot had flared also! and i was juts generally stiff al over, the dr focused alot on my right side since im right handed, and i asked him when it was over , what he thought, he said by law he cant say anything but he thinks i have some major issues and i got a very good feeling about it. lord I hope it isnt that damn optimism getting in the way again! He can't say anything by law?  Why?By law he can't say anything???  What am I not understanding? what i mean is social security wont let him give me an opinion, he just sends in the results of what he found, and they make the decision.And you have no right to the results??  I'm sorry, I don't understand how SS works, but that sounds horrible!nope, i have to wait til SS notifies me, i think SS doesnt want him to tell me yes you got it and then SS says no you didnt or vice versa, does that make any better sense? because ultimately SS is the one that decides not the dr.You know its a world gone amok when we are cheering on someone to flare really badly to time with a medical doctor appointment to prove we really are sick with SOMETHING.  Gawd, sorry you had to flare, but very glad it happened at the right time.  This disease process is so bizarre.  Take care and GOOD LUCK  CathyArgh...that sounds so unfair. How many medical degrees does SS have?

Anyway, I suppose there's nothing easy you can do about that, so good luck
with the whole thing. Good Luck! Hope you get it! justsaynomore, I ACTUALLY prayed last night for a flare! and today when it happened I Thanked God for it, not sarcastically not feciously, but honestly and sincerely! I meant it then and I mean it now. What a great system when have eh?

That's what happens when the government is involved in medical treatment.  It'll be that way for everyone all the time if medical care goes scolialized here in the US.

I hope things go well for you and SS believes your doc.  Hang in there.

linncn, that is totally inaccurate. That's not how it works in Canada and
we have socialised medicine. That IS how it works in the US NOW,
ALREADY,where you don't have socialised medicine, as we see from this
thread. Don't you think if you're going to harp on about the evils of
socialised health services you should at least find examples from
countries that have it. The above thread only highlights how your system
fails people.

The more I read posts on medical boards the more I realise it's Americans
who have other people dictating their healthcare, wether it be their
inusrer or their social services. In Canada it's all at your doctor's
discretion, and if you don't like what they decide you can go to different
doctors (or pay out of pocket if you have/want to). Also, many Canadians
have extended insurance through their employers so there's quite a bit of
covergae for care from naturopaths, osteopaths, massage therapists and
etc (plus a limited amount annually under universal health care for these
services as well).

Here's an example: when I decided to go on AP I went and saw my GP and
she wrote me a prescription fro brand name minocin and i went to the
drugstore and got a 2 month supply and it cost me about (of which
my extended insurance will reimburse me ). Every day on the road
back message board I see people saying their insurance won't pay for
minocin. They have to prove they have a mycoplasma infection. Or their
insurance will only pay for generic (which doesn't work as well or even at
all on some people). Then when the DO finally get it they have to pay
hundreds of dollars for it! That's friggin' crazy! Here, if your doctor
prescribes it it means you need it. End of story. Give me socilaised
medicine any day of the week.

Gogo: I think the Minocin hike in the US has more to do with the AP politics than the health care system. Wyeth did own Minocin and also owns (in conjunction with Amgen) Enbrel. Kind of a conflict of interest. JMO, though. They recently sold Minocin to Triax-- a small dermatology parmaceutical company.

Also, our health care system was pretty strong when it was privatized. When they introduced "HMOs" the quality began to decline.

I don't know what the answer is now... Maybe just do away with all HMOs?

Take care, Karin

Funny thing: I just looked up Steifel, the manufacturer of the Minocin sold in Canada. And it is headquartered and manufactured in South Florida; and it is sold in Canada, but not in the US. Weird.It's whack all right.
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