No. Insurance won't cover it. They covered the bloodwork though ($3,000 worth. Ouch!) The pellet was $325 and should last 3-6 months depending on how active you are. I love my pellet !!...
I have the BioTe pellet that is inserted under the skin on your butt. It is fantastic ! They will take your hormone levels and compound the pellet for you with right amount of estrogen and...
Wow. I thought I was the only one with weird cysts. I never thought about them being Crohn's related, but perhaps they are. Mine are on my shoulder blades and back. Usually just unattractive bumps,...
Well, I didn't think I was menopausal yet either, as I still get periods every so often. The doctor was more worried about osteoporosis since I don't absorb nutrients as well as "normal" people. She...
I just started hormone replacement therapy (I'm 51). This is the biologic kind - they insert a "pellet" under the skin. I don't think I'm imagining this, but I have had a 99.9% decrease in my Crohn's...
Matthew, how did you extract the medicine from the MJ?...
I agree. The insurance company screwed you over, not Obama. I haven't been able to have insurance for the last five or six years because of this wonderful pre-existing disease. I am over the moon...
I have a recurring recto/vag fistula. Whenever I notice that it might be resurfacing I take the Cipro/Flagyl combo and it clears up. I haven't had a recurrence in a year of so. Fingers crossed.......
I too have been wrangling with a stubborn abscess/fistula. Hopefully, now though I think I've turned the corner. My protocol has been Cipro & Flagyl; sitz baths - if you can call them that. I bought...
You're right. I'm going to call the corporate office on Monday. I don't think there's any point in wasting my time with the store, if they didn't care when it happened, they're not going to care now....
My dr refilled my flagyl script, so I raced down to CVS to pick it up. Noticed on the outside envelope that all my info was there and checked to see how many days it was for (10). Raced back home and...
I don't have a proper bathtub either, so what I do is..... I bought a child's tub. It's perfect, albeit it's pink.... Target and Walmart carry quite a few different ones in various sizes (infant,...
I think next time I will say, "Gosh, you're so very, very fat. How do you do it? Tell me your secret. I want to be fat like you." I'll let you know how that conversation turns out. I'll probably get...
On more than one occassion I've had total strangers come up to me and say, " OMG you're so skinny !" (with a disgusted look on their face). Can you imagine what would happen if I went up to someone...
My sister in law actually said to me, "You know, you are really blessed that you have Crohn's, because you won't have to worry about gaining weight when you get older...."...
I've been going through the same thing - not surgery, but the painful abscess/fistula nightmare on my butt cheek. So far, I've been taking Cipro and Flagyl (about 3 mos now) and it has finally burst...
I've had this before. Is the pain right below your butt cheeks? It's a vitamin b deficiency. I started taking the sublingual b12 "dots" and the pain went away in a day. Good luck!...
I just recently got my own insurance policy through Aetna. I had heard that they were easing up a bit on the pre-existing disease restriction and I guess they are ! They rated me up a bit because of...