31-03-2015, 09:21 PM
Well.. seeing as this post has turned into a basic frustrations of Elain post.. time to add another one lol...
As many of you know I intend to fully transition. At least that is my goal anyway. However I keep getting roadblocks thrown up in my path and guess what? Yup... another roadblock. This time it is my health insurance in relation to paying for Psychiatrists/Therapists... It seems that in my area nobody accepts it, or those who do are not taking new patients or simply don't understand GD and transgender issues at all and are unwilling to take the time to learn.
Having personally called every Psychiatrist and Therapist in the state for literally 200 miles around me... I am now stuck in a holding pattern in my journey because to progress further... I need a Therapist/Psych to sign off on taking HRT medications.... and can't find one who takes my insurance and is taking new patients. Catch .22 and causing me no small amount of frustration and aggravation right now.
The hard part is, my insurance coverage kinda falls between the cracks where this is concerned. It's not an HMO with set parameters etc. Because I am 100% disabled it is through the state and federal health care system and they have me planted right smack in the middle of.... nowhere. In an ambiguous grey area of coverage. What is so ironic about all of this is that one of the reasons for my disability (aside from the physical) is the severe social anxiety I suffer and the horrible panic attacks I get at random... and because of my coverage right now, I can't even get those issues treated either. Color me /facepalming.
I am trying to get things worked out but at this point I am literally just treading water and going nowhere slow. My PCP did auth me to start ramping up my Aldactone to 100mg a day (from 25mg a day) over the next two months so that is a start I can work on while I struggle to get my coverage figured out and rectified. I am def very aggravated by all of this. I have never ran into so many idiotic bureaucratic roadblocks to my healthcare as I have here in Oregon lol.
~Elain
As many of you know I intend to fully transition. At least that is my goal anyway. However I keep getting roadblocks thrown up in my path and guess what? Yup... another roadblock. This time it is my health insurance in relation to paying for Psychiatrists/Therapists... It seems that in my area nobody accepts it, or those who do are not taking new patients or simply don't understand GD and transgender issues at all and are unwilling to take the time to learn.
Having personally called every Psychiatrist and Therapist in the state for literally 200 miles around me... I am now stuck in a holding pattern in my journey because to progress further... I need a Therapist/Psych to sign off on taking HRT medications.... and can't find one who takes my insurance and is taking new patients. Catch .22 and causing me no small amount of frustration and aggravation right now.
The hard part is, my insurance coverage kinda falls between the cracks where this is concerned. It's not an HMO with set parameters etc. Because I am 100% disabled it is through the state and federal health care system and they have me planted right smack in the middle of.... nowhere. In an ambiguous grey area of coverage. What is so ironic about all of this is that one of the reasons for my disability (aside from the physical) is the severe social anxiety I suffer and the horrible panic attacks I get at random... and because of my coverage right now, I can't even get those issues treated either. Color me /facepalming.
I am trying to get things worked out but at this point I am literally just treading water and going nowhere slow. My PCP did auth me to start ramping up my Aldactone to 100mg a day (from 25mg a day) over the next two months so that is a start I can work on while I struggle to get my coverage figured out and rectified. I am def very aggravated by all of this. I have never ran into so many idiotic bureaucratic roadblocks to my healthcare as I have here in Oregon lol.
~Elain