miserable

[invisableshortay]

I feel exausted, anxious at times, I have terrible BODY pain, and when I say body pain  I mean just that, because Im having pain in to many places to explain, for instance shoulders, lower back, knees, ankles, chest, neck, spine, migranes, leg pain shooting down ,diareah, consipation, increased thirst, lower appitite, depression from all of this. I heard it could be fibermyalgia, but the doctor i seen said its too hard to tell and sent me to a rhematologist, which of course wanted 400 dollars just to be seen in a initial visit without the doctor, lets just say that idea flew out the window...so what does a girl like me do  when no one wants to listen and you must be a hypocondirac right? Do I live with this or is there an answer? Or does my son have to live with a mother who cannot even come close to keeping up ne more?

[AR-10]

You can go back to the free clinic, can't you? I would go back and explain why you couldn't see the specialist as was recommended to you.

The free clinic is associated with a hospital or clinic, yes? Go to the finance department and explain your situation. Ask if there is a way to set up a payment plan for testing and then maybe a doctor can start sorting your problem out one test at a time. If you can offer to pay them twenty dollars a month they should be willing to help you.

If that is not an option ask them if there is a teaching hospital within range or just what is the procedure for getting help if you can't pay for services up front or all at once.

Good luck, and I hope you find more help than you have been offered so far.

[invisableshortay]

Thanks for your suggestion, I do want a doctors help, and yes there is medical aid if you qualify, but my family doesnt qualify for Any of the help I have knowledge of , we dont qualify for Medicaid, and my husbands employer wont and doesnt offer any insurance plan, and we do have a free clinic in my town, but Ive already went to them once this year, and  as far as my reasearch has taken me there are no other options in my state. Im not throwing a pity party by any means and my family didnt know for a long time because I never complained, I suppose I am just now taking the first steps to find answers myself, as for the treated thyroid, I havent found a doctor who will test my thyroid because we have to "expire" all other options before we go to that extreme. I will check out that link. I am not trying to blame anything or anyone, I just want answers so that I may be myself again.

[GravesLady]

You didn't say if you are treated thyroid.

Well,  if every suggestion from doctor gets blown out the window, you many never get an answer to  a diagnose and proper treatment.  So who's to blame.

Thyroid is not the blame for every undiagnosed symptom that's out there in the world.

You might try the Undiagnosed Symptoms doctor forum and ask Kevin Pho, M.D.
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/undiagnosed-symptoms/wwwboard.html

If you don't want to follow doctors suggestion, than yes, you will have to live with it.  

There is medical finical aid out there, you just have to find it, and you will if you are feeling all that bad.