Well it’s funny because it will cost me, but I’m in an unusual position for me where it would be essentially heavily discounted lol. I can’t see that happening anywhere again in the near future. So it was part of my reasoning for considering it. I have an incredibly high deductible plan which I never meet. Before my deductible, I pay 100% the cost of medical care. After my deductible, I pay 20%.
Gastric cancer is terrifying. With a family history, I hope you are able to continue to be monitored. Luckily there are other ways to monitor it beyond imaging. Like how colonoscopies are regular screenings for colon cancer, they can scope your stomach as a way to screen for gastric cancer.
I have a family history of esophageal cancer which is a bit scary to think about! I’ll have to remember to get it monitored as I age. One of my uncles died of it and I’m not sure if the other will end up dying from his.
Yes but my insurance sucks and I somehow managed to meet my very high deductible this year. I can’t see that happening again in the near future. So it’s probably the cheapest I’d ever get an MRI lol…that part is part of the reason I’m considering doing it.
Insurance says it was approved so I would pay 20%. Normally when I haven’t met my deductible (most years), I would be paying 100%. I am comfortable financially to pay for something at 20%.
Damn! Very glad to know you’re still with us! Was it suspected or totally unrelated to why you got the imaging?
Well essentially I had a bit of an odd biopsy result and one of the possibilities can be a strange hormone effect. I wanted a second opinion on the biopsy to make sure it was benign. I also recently had some blood hormone testing which doesn’t seem to find anything too odd outside of the possibly of way earlier menopause than normal. The second opinion was benign which made me happy. But then the doctor suggested an MRI to have a better look at my adrenal glands (which are also producers of hormones) and ovaries. I think because she noticed that I have excess hair on my face and body. This can also be due to a hormonal effect, but this particular hormone wasn’t tested and would not have effected the biopsy.
What happened of you don’t mind me asking?
Haha yes I work in healthcare and we used the world “incidentaloma” when I was in school lolol.
Sometimes things diagnosed incidentally do save people’s lives though. I had an uncle diagnosed with renal cancer indicidentally when they were imaging him for some other reason. He had the kidney removed and has been cancer free forever now…might have been more than a decade ago. In many cases, a random scan can save someone’s life.
But the other hand causes things you describe, unnecessary stress and intervention for otherwise benign but odd things that people see. It’s one of the big reasons why you don’t generally just get an MRI just to get one.
I’ve been fighting back and forth with what to do in my mind here.
Potential monetary cost, “wasting” medical resources needed by others, possibly finding something incidental but benign leading to unnecessary further testing/surgery/etc. There are reasons why these generally aren’t done willy nilly.
I’ll copy a reply I said to someone else.
“Well it’s funny because they are the second opinion I was referred to. Had an odd result to something so I wanted to make sure it was fine. The second opinion also said it was fine which made me relieved, but then they asked if I wanted an MRI. At first I was like well ok sure I met my deductible but now I’m like wtf am I even thinking.”
Ah gotcha! There are actually a lot easier ways to find out if PCOS is on the table. Blood hormone tests and ultrasounds can help and are super easy for an office to do! Hope your doctor actually wants to help you out and investigate these things.
Well it’s funny because they are the second opinion I was referred to. Had an odd result to something so I wanted to make sure it was fine. The second opinion also said it was fine which made me relieved, but then they asked if I wanted an MRI. At first I was like well ok sure I met my deductible but now I’m like wtf am I even thinking.
Endometriosis?? I’ve heard that sucks major ass. I actually work at a hospital where patients get a bunch of tissue from their abdomen/pelvis removed when it is involved by endometriosis. I always wondered if that helped these patients much or not.
Endometriosis can be really fucking crazy too. I’ve very rarely seen it do wild as fuck things like explode an appendix or even cause a bowel obstruction!!!
Nah, ordered by a physician. I did not even bring up the idea.
I guess that’s why I never understood relationships or romance. I don’t have the urge or capacity to feel sexual things, so being in a relationship goes out the window with 99% of people. And then what would I even be doing in a relationship different than a friendship? Sorry idk what I’m trying to say…just blathering as a lifelong lone wolf.
Huh…I guess I remember this dude. Interesting that someone decided to archive these.
Huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genu_valgum
Don’t think this has anything to do with being skinny unless you had malnutrition. Looks like if you have it as a kid, it’s normal enough and you tend to grow out of it. If it’s severe or you don’t grow out of it, it’s due to malnutrition or other disease processes.
So I’d wager most people on Lemmy do not have this. I’m fairly thin and I have never had that.
I’m on board with you. Yes, some things are a bit worse, but most things are the total opposite. All I see online anymore are doomers and I just don’t have that mindset anymore. Makes most of the internet (Lemmy in particular) unrelatable.
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A bit silly, but I wear motivational wristbands! I have a favorite one I gravitate to, but sometimes I switch it up when I want a different word/phrase of comfort/motivation.
Well bois…I’m fucked because now I missed the cutoff to cancel it