Hospital - Fibromyalgia Message Board

kdel · 11-21-2007, 08:10 PM

I just want to check into a hospital and not leave until they've done every single test imaginable. Anyone done that? Can you even do that?

AnnD · 11-21-2007, 09:01 PM

If you have the bucks$ you can do anything you want.Pretty much all you would need is an intensive MRI that details all your insides including the brain from all angles and that would pretty much tell them everything. I can't even imagine the cost of that but they sure will do it for you...It isn't something the insurance co. would cover but maybe you could negotiate a reasonable price. We have a small hospital but state of art MRI and CAT equipment and Lab. and they will do pretty much whatever you wish done if you can pay for it....Hospitals are all about the money(even non profits) so maybe you could do that. That is a great idea isn't it!

kdel · 11-22-2007, 05:32 AM

Well I do not have the bucks. I just don't understand how you can have so many problems that also show in lab tests and we are just expected to wait, wait, wait and suffer.

jam338 · 11-22-2007, 01:10 PM

If you are waiting for doctors to find answers and help, it is likely not gonna happen in our lifetime. In order to get better with this disorder, you have to take responsibility for your own healthcare, research, read, and try different options where others have had success. Doctors are just going to keep sticking you on drugs until you shut up and go away. That will work for awhile until you build tolerance and what worked for a while now won't work, and you are right back where you were, but now worse. It is a vicious cycle. Everyone's experience with symptoms and treatments differ, so you just have to read as many message board threads as you can and find out what is working for others. It is sad that we have to be guinea pigs functioning as lab rats, but that is regrettably a reflection of where science is about this disorder. It's very frustrating isn't it?

stac8454 · 11-28-2007, 09:42 PM

I know EXACTLY how you feel. I don't know how many times I said the exact same thing over the past year...and this was before I even knew I had fibromyalgia.