Getting Botox.....for my butt!!

I should write a book about the saga that is my life at 25!  Well I was supposed to start remicade today but my wonderful insurance company won't pre-authorize my treatment and they are going to send it to medical review if they do get any bills so I decided not to risk it.  My tummy is doing great with Pentasa my fissures however are not!  I sent my Dr. an e-mail yesterday and told her that I can't deal with this pain everyday and that I wanted to try Cipro since Flagyl gave me nerve issues.  She told me that Cipro has not been proven to help with the anal issues but we could try and see.  I see a lot of people on this board with Cipro so something has to be going good, right?  Well anyway,  she said that surgery is absolutely not an option so we are going to try Botox!  I have heard about it before and it has shown some success.  At this point I am willing to try anything.  It has to be done under sedation and since my last sedation did not work and I woke up in the middle of them slicing my abcess open, I have decided that I will never take any sedation so they are going to have to give me general anesthesia!  The doctor said that she has to insert the injection inside my rectum to get to where the specific muscle is.  It's supposed to paralyze the muscle so it does not spasm and it allows the fissure to heal.  There is no guarantee but I am willing to try anything.  If this does not work I will either have to deal with the pain or have a temporary ostomy so that I don't use my butt and the fissure heals.  I actually have 2 fissures but one of them is the killer.  The doctor examined me under Anesthesia in June when I was diagnosed and she said the fissure went all the way down into the muscle.  I just want to be pain free and not wake up everyday thinking how much is this going to hurt today??? =(  I am crossing my fingers and hoping this will work! 

I can't wait until I get my renewal for my insurance bill...I am going to go up 200% at the rate that I am going! The problem is that I started this insurance on May 1st and 4 weeks later developed my first fissure and then 2 weeks after that developed my second, had my colonoscopy and surgery to remove a skin tag and place a seton drain. Needless to say 2 months into coverage they have paid a billion times more than what I have paid to them in premium. Since before I started with the insurance, I had not seen a doctor in 5 years, I am afraid they are going to try to claim that this is pre-exsisting and not cover it. They will not pre-approve it for nothing in the world. I had the doctors office call yesterday and nothing. I told them to look into it before I got the treatment to approve it and they said that they will not look into it until they have a claim sent to them. Insurance in this country is the most pathetic thing I have ever seen! I want them to go and search for and pre-exsisting conditions but I can't risk them not paying the treatment and the first 4 treatments are $20K! I had read a little about the Botox before, it's not very common but the idea behind it seems to be a good one so anything is worth a try. It's can't physically harm me so away to Botox I go...I wonder if she can fix a few eye wrinkles while she's at it! =P

Remicade is not specific in my policy. I technically am covered for any treatment and an outpatient facility with my $200/co-pay. The problem started when the OP Hospital called to get authorization and they said that yes I am covered but I have a 2 year pre-existing clause. When I called them to see what the heck they were talking about (because of course I did not know about this clause), they said that most policies come with a pre-exsisting rider and that this treatment is most likely a treatment that will be flagged down for review. You have to remember that I started this policy on May 1. A month and a half after that I was diagnosed and went for surgery. They are paying out of the wazoo for me right now and adding a treatment that costs $5,000 a session is not something that they are going to want to pay. They will not review it and authorize it before I get the treatment so I have to risk getting the treatment and them not covering it. They are not going to find anything that shows that I had this pre-existing but they are going to try anything not to pay. I had not seen a doctor in the last 5 years so that is going to be there number one excuse. That I have seen a doctor and am just not telling them about it. After all..it is a really big coincidence that one month after I get the policy I get diagnosed and have surgery to fix some problems. My Husband is actually a personal injury attorney and we deal with this stuff all the time. I would have to wait until they actually deny the claim (which could take months in the review process and in the meantime my treatment bills are stacking up) I would then have to start to battle with their departments, and the state and possibly even court. I am doing fine with my intestines, what I am not doing fine with is the fissures and the fistula. Do I really want to start this battle when I am not in grave condition???

Let us know how the botox goes. It would be great if it was a quick fix for us. I often wonder about collagen injections too. This is what they use to plump up lips. It would be like fake skin to fill the hole. Also, they have a new super glue like substance they use in place of stitches. Why cant they fill a fissure with that and stick it back together lol?