Diabetes care and medicare

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Avatar n tn Hello, I have been reading a lot lately about the side effects of Seroquel. The one that concerns me the most is the diabetes. I am obese and diabetes runs in my family. I even have a brother that is insulin dependent. I am wondering if I should get off this drug? Does the diabetes continue even after the drug is discontinued? Is there another antipsychotic I could take that does not have this side effect? Thank you so much for your time.
1530342 tn?1405016490 No drug plans on my mother's medicare. No hospitalization either. Between medicare and home health care professionals (not covered by medicare), my mom's pension barely covers her bills now.... Medicare is horrible.
Avatar f tn t necessarily mean a child will develop diabetes, and in particular not develop type 2 diabetes. Type 2 is primarily controlled with diet and exercise, so there is likely no greater risk of the child developing diabetes than anyone else. If the father is diabetic, either type 1 or 2, it is irrelevant to intercourse or child birth. The best way to prevent type 2 diabetes in kids is to let them get plenty of exercise and make sure they eat a well balanced diet.
Avatar f tn First and foremost, to get home health care services through Medicare, you need to be eligible for and obtain Medicare. One does this by being ... meh, no need to repeat myself ... that information is HERE ... Medicare goes with Social Security so feel free to lose yourself in the boredom of government web design (kidding, mostly): http://www.medhelp.
672839 tn?1305792947 How to live on $1000/mth. and get medical care? I live in Georgia, am 50 this year, and have lived with BP for many years. I'm covered by Medicare original, and gave up seeing doctors due to expense, and lack of psychiatrists accepting Medicare. Hoped to survive without prescription drugs. My world has grown very small (really dependent on one other person). Any suggestions appreciated....
Avatar n tn I have Type II diabetes and have been told I have fibromyalgia. I get tingling and pain in my arms and legs and low back area and often a burning sensation. My low back and legs become so tender I can hardly stand for anyone to touch them. Is this really fibromyalgia or my diabetes? A couple of months ago I became ill with the flu and was down for nearly a week. My right arm and hand ached a lot. After a few days I noticed my index finger was numb.
Avatar n tn I live about 30 mins from dallas and never spotted. It only happened in the 2nd trimester and after sex. I don't use Medicare but a lot of drs will take it and any public hospital does too!
979826 tn?1389036358 i get to stay on my parents insurance until im 26 and there are no longer preexisting conditions so for me and alot of us that is huge!!!!!!! its no longer such a worry!!!!!!!!
Avatar m tn Hi everyone, In this post i need your help to find the best senior home care service for my elders. Please help me on this matter and give the information about better elder home care service.
Avatar f tn s and purchase LTHC, I would definitely do it. It might not be MS that stops me and requires care - it could be any number of diseases and unfortunately, now that I have MS I can't afford to even think about LTHC. I would look into it, and do it now.
Avatar f tn He was warning against legislation that would guarantee health care for older Americans — the program now known as Medicare. Conservative Republicans still hate Medicare, and would kill it if they could — in fact, they tried to gut it during the Clinton years (that’s what the 1995 shutdown of the government was all about). But so far they haven’t been able to pull that off.So John McCain wants to destroy the health insurance of nonelderly Americans instead.
Avatar n tn Besides Liver Transplant Centers (where you MUST be treated to have your cirrhosis and portal hypertension managed) usually take both Medicaid and Medicare for payment so there is no advantage to Medicare. In fact Medicare is very expensive. You say you have one doctor. Any one doctor can NOT treat all of your health conditions and certainly not your liver disease. You will have to make sure the liver transplant center takes Medicaid. This should be the first think you do.
Avatar f tn This is random i know. So i faxed over my new adress and stuff for medicare and its been literally almost a month since and still waiting for approval and i was just wondering if im not sure if i have it yet that i can just go into the hospital in the outpatient section for treatment because im literally almost 4 months preg and still have not seen a doc. even for an ultrasound for christ sake.... can somebody tell me how i can get immediate care?
Avatar m tn whites - diabetes (36.4%) and alcohol-related disease (23.5%), blacks - HCV (31.9%) and alcohol-related disease (20.3%), Hispanics - alcohol-related disease (29.9%) and diabetes (28.0%), and Asians - HCV (31.7%) and diabetes (26.5%). These findings indicate that the current increase in incidence of HCC in the U.S. may be fueled by different factors in different racial/ethnic and gender groups.
415684 tn?1257329318 Many need cancer care and treatments and chemo, and should be treated in their countries, not burden our hospitals and doctors and have us paying for it. There are Americans with cancer, some with OVCA who are struggling to pay for their own treatments.
Avatar n tn I'm a volunteer here and I've had Type I Diabetes since I was 18 (over 10 years). As far as having all the symptoms that you mentioned -it isn't really "normal" per se to be experiencing those once you're under the care of an endocrinologist. However, since you have been diabetic less than a year (and it definitely changes your life), you may need time to cope with everything and get things under control.
Avatar f tn It is relieving to be taken seriously. I am 50 and have no children under 18. This excludes me from both medicaid and medicare. I have to use indigent healthcare. It will be several weeks before I can get an appointment. Those people are not as caring, informed as other private Drs. They are overwhelmed in their jobs and I understand that. Because of this, I am worried about competent diagmosis.
211940 tn?1267881266 This was one of the things that I hope the health care bill will fix. It's crazy, isn't it?
Avatar f tn I still believe that if it is passed before then there will be some revisions in it as there usually are (as there are negotiations between both sides) and unfortunately some political pork thrown in. Health care coverage should be available for all Americans. I don't know if this bill is the optimum way to provide it. I have the text of the bill bookmarked from a thread a while ago and I am still trying to read it through it: http://help.senate.gov/BAI09A84_xml.
Avatar f tn My brother is 28 yrs old, and had diabetes and severe CHF. Because of his illness' he cannot get on insurance and because of prior drug use (over a year ago) noone will treat him. Is there anything I can do? We have already lost our mother and our father at very young ages, I cannot sit back and watch my brother go without trying to do something to help him Thanks for any advice.
Avatar m tn I have medicare in California I will enroll in it next month,I have liver transplant with hcv and cirrhosis ,I need to find out how medicare and if medicare pay for sovaldi and olysio.
649848 tn?1534633700 Looks like the pharmaceutical companies come out on top!!! Here's part of an article I found this morning; THE INFLUENCE GAME: Drug lobby's health care win By ALAN FRAM (AP) – 6 hours ago WASHINGTON — Chalk one up for the pharmaceutical lobby. The U.S. drug industry fended off price curbs and other hefty restrictions in President Barack Obama's health care law even as it prepares for plenty of new business when an estimated 32 million uninsured Americans gain health coverage.
Avatar f tn In addition, beginning next year, Medicare beneficiaries won’t have to pay co-payments or deductibles on many preventive health care services, including diabetes and cervical cancer screenings. Medicare will also pay for an annual wellness visit to the doctor. To help pay for the health overhaul, Congress is cutting payments to Medicare Advantage plans, beginning the year after next.
Avatar m tn m American and was approved for Medicare for the first time about five months ago. I was only approved because without my parents I'd be homeless. My diabetes has caused a deep chronic depression that has left me unable to maintain any real or meaningful relationship, especially outside of my family, and has limited me in several ways that I never expected. My depression has now caused a rift between me and most of the people I know.
Avatar m tn My dad is doing so well right now and he needs and wants more of it. My family and I are not sure what to do. Any help would be great.