Today, I went to the doctor's for the third time in a week for a huge growth under my jaw. I have seen an urgent care doctor, an emergency room doctor and an ear, nose and throat specialist who all gave me different diagnoses. I've so far spent $300. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I'd finally had enough of feeling awful and went to urgent care. As it turns out, the reason my throat was sore was because I have a sinus infection. The doctor explained my nose is producing pus, and that's what I'm swallowing and coughing up. Yuck. I also have pink eye on top of that. FML
Today, my dentist called and told me that the surgery to remove my wisdom teeth - which I desperately need and saved for a year to be able to afford - will actually cost nearly $2000 more than originally stated. The surgery is supposed to be in three days. FML
Today, I rushed to urgent care after suddenly developing a dark spot in the vision of one of my eyes. Long story short, I paid $110 for the doctor to remove an eyelash. FML
Today, it was the fourth time I've had major dental work done, because my dentist messed up my root canal. After almost a dozen needles, three missed work days, over $1,000, and 2 broken tools, I only have a tiny, barely-successful filling to show for it. FML
Today, after three months of wait, I expected to have a diagnosis and treatment plan from my doctor. Instead, I got an appointment with a surgeon "just to be sure", and an appointment with a GP to get referrals to two other doctors for more appointments. Meanwhile, my health gets worse and worse. FML
Today, I finally got insurance after months of paperwork, and so I went to the doctor. I was billed $873 for a "consultation" that pretty much consisted of being weighed and told to "Google it." FML
Today, and for the past 2 weeks, I've had a massive pain in my throat. It went down for a while with antibiotics, but when it came back I had to go to the hospital for an emergency surgery. There was a 3 cm abscess growing in my throat. Happy birthday to me! FML
Today, the gums around my wisdom teeth are so badly swollen that I can't talk. I called a dentist to find out if I could see them for a removal. They told me to contact a surgeon, or go to the hospital emergency room. I have no insurance. FML
Today, I woke up to the most excruciating pain in my jaw. No dentist that takes my insurance has any openings, and the one doctor I can see to get antibiotics isn’t in. FML
Today, after two root canal procedures done on the same tooth in last two years, the tooth had been acting up for a few days, so I went in to get it checked. Turns out, it got infected AGAIN and I gotta get a THIRD root canal done on the same tooth. FML
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doggone456 0
hey your better safe than sorry, money can be replaced and gotten back, a person can't, u might wanna get a PET scan on it to see if it's cancerous or benine
ktbird 0
It seem obvious to me that you should trust the third doctor (the expert). ER and urgent doctors are adept at all medicine but only experts at emergencies like trauma.
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Comments (112)
sarahpft 2
It's probably a lymph node. You either have an infection or had an allergic reaction.
Gameguy602 0
In the words of Doctor House, "When you pick your specialty, you pick your diagnosis."
minette08 0
You've gone to the doctor 3 different times and ONLY spent $300?? Be happy, that'd be in the thousands for me. Sounds like you're lucky enough to have health insurance.
VertigoSD 0
Cut it off, and lay off the chew!!
GloriouSally13 0
Oh wow ...that sux
skylarbee 8
if you were Canadian you wouldnt have paid so much
gozar_fml 1
Actually, they would have paid more. However they would have paid it through their taxes, not at the doctor office. "Free" medical care is not free.
ADTR106 0
Your comment : Did you hit puberty? If so then thats called a "beard!"
doucheyfart 0
$300? Try cutting your hand at work and getting a bill for $625 from the ER. I didn't even need stitches. And they charged me $50 for showing up after 10:00.
katj 0
If you've only spent $300 you must have health insurance. **** everyone else's life for paying 10 times that to go to the only place that will take you: the ER.
bling79 0
if that's all you have spent your doing pretty damn good.