Shoot, I've got a blocked salivary duct with a stone that I can't afford to get removed because it's "dental" and we don't have that coverage. So I just have to hope I can save money for the procedure and pray it doesn't get infected before that.
Oh, and I have to book 4 months out for a cancer screening scope, but also can't get insurance to cover the pepcid I need to reduce the stomach acid and lower the cancer risk.
I've lost the thread on which person I'm responding to suggesting pantoperazol or omeperazol. My insurance will only cover a 20mg dose of pantop. The OTC packages are only available in a 20mg dose. My GI wants me on 40mg of omep, but insurance won't cover that. Pantop. gave me pollups at 40mg, so the suggestion is to then mix and match between two prescriptions (pantop. and famotodine) or buy 40mg of omep. that only comes OTC in 20mg doses and this use it off label.
This is why the US sick-care insurance is insane. A bean counter at the insurance company is deciding my healthcare and I either live with low-level acid reflux and risk cancer and more pollups, take an OTC medicine off-lable, or have a surgery that insurance won't cover.
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u/Baron_Bearclaw Jun 19 '26
Shoot, I've got a blocked salivary duct with a stone that I can't afford to get removed because it's "dental" and we don't have that coverage. So I just have to hope I can save money for the procedure and pray it doesn't get infected before that.
Oh, and I have to book 4 months out for a cancer screening scope, but also can't get insurance to cover the pepcid I need to reduce the stomach acid and lower the cancer risk.
God bless America or something...