as small as a world and as large as alone

10:02am June 27, 2013

clatterbane:

youneedacat:

clatterbane:

youneedacat:

nicocoer:

survivorwaver:

lesshumansmorecats:

mewtwoalaid:

like what is so hard about “people who can get pregnant”

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I did get an IUD, but only because it might prevent cancer and the hormone pills that would do the same were messing with my migraines.

But I wish I hadn’t. I’m now $1400 in debt because nobody told me it wasn’t going to be covered by Medicare even as cancer prevention with my condition plus a family history. And I had to get it out on under anesthesia because I can’t even do a normal gynecologist exam without screaming my head off and clamping my legs shut because it feels like they’re ripping flesh apart every time they stick the speculum in.

Which they try to tell me is my muscles clenching from anxiety. But I suspect spasticity is more like it. Because when I woke up from the anesthesia I still felt like flesh had been ripped, and the muscles around my urethra are spastic too. And it’s not like I have anxiety in my sleep. (I’d never let my ex touch me there either because it hurt too much - as he found out once when I nearly threw him off a bed. It was years before I could even give myself treatment for yeast infections. I can’t figure out why vaginas are supposed to be erogenous zones, and wish I could just get my uterus removed to stop the worry about cancer without having to put in IUDs I’ll never be able to afford. But they’d never pay for that either.)

Yowch. :(

I’m surprised it wasn’t covered, but that’s definitely something they should have told you in advance! Medicare and Medicaid are pretty different, but when I was on Medicaid the only things with no copay were family planning services. (That was also 10 years ago, so a lot may have changed there with the evangelical wingnuts getting more control, anyway.) But, yeah, I would have expected that to be covered by Medicare, even if it had been for the usual purpose.

Sticking this under a cut for mentions of medical abuse and assault.

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Ugh.

I have both Medicare and Medicaid. (Weird situation specific to people who were on SSI then changed to Disabled Adult Child benefits under RSDI. Which is not a typo for SSDI, completely different benefits.) Both refused to cover it. )

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