Hello all! Apologies for the long hiatus. Alyssa has been transitioning into her PhD program at Santa Cruz and I (Willow) have been surviving grad school and batting with my health and everything that comes with that
The latest adventure is my pharmacy health insurance, navatis, is denying ivabradine. EVEN THOUGH there are Studies that show it’s effectiveness in POTS patients. Just like the week before when I pleaded with navatis to approve my medication (all $1500 of it ) they smugly informed me they weren’t STOPPING me from getting it, just declining to pay for it.
What are chronically ill folks supposed to do when our conditions are rare and not included in FDA approved uses of certain prescriptions???? It is simply an elitist, evil, cost preventing stategy to prevent patients like me from getting medication that has research to back up it’s effectiveness.
I’m so tired of fighting my insurance just to see my humanity.
As I hung up the phone with navatis I said “when I die, that’s on YOU, (insert you can buy it yourself ) you’ve signed my death certificate. I hope you know that”
