Re: First Bone density scan next week!
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:14 pm
mrt (imported) wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:26 pm I wonder if the people doing the bone scan are flipping your history to avoid a long fight with the insurance company? Or perhapes its "automatic" that surgical hypogonadism MUST = Testicular Cancer because why else?
I had a bit of a issue proving that surgery was a "valid" treatment for Orchialgia. It took printing out medical studies on the effectiveness of the treatment and the surgeon then doing some R&D on the authors to insure they were mainstream.
Anyway, glad you got a bone scan. Guys who are "testicularly Challanged" like us need to do so. And kudos to Jesus for saying to take your Calcium and Vit D... This is very good advise!
It's amazing how far doctors have to go to avoid protracted fights with the insurance companies. When I was diagnosed with my prolactinoma the insurance company, using old medical texts that said these tumors were exclusively a woman's problem, refused to pay for the confirming MRI until my doctor signed a statement that he had no financial interest in the MRI lab. They also wanted a copy of the film for their doctors to examine before paying. They paid promptly after their doctors saw the golf ball sized tumor on the film.
When a colonoscopy revealed a precancerous polyp at the opening of my appendix my doctor scheduled an appendectomy suspecting that there were more inside the appendix. (Later confirmed by the lab.) However, since this was so unusual, they just listed the reason as appendicitis to avoid a fight with the insurance company. This stuff goes on and on just to get necessary treatment paid for.
Let me add my congratulations on the results of the bone scan. Get your calcium and vitamin D and don't drink sodas!!!