• themoken@startrek.website
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    5 days ago

    Even if you did, 90% chance they’d charge you a few hundred bucks just to tell you to put Vaseline on it. 10% chance it turns black and they get to charge you big money to save you the trouble of cleavering it.

    … Fuck insurance.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      I’m pretty sure it’s a flare of up dishydeotic eczema. I had one on the same fingers about 15 years ago but way worse.

      I know what they’d do is prescribe me some special ointment and it would go away in a week or so and cost less than $50 between the copay and the script.

      But the goddamn fucking hoops they make you jump through just to get a doctor to say “yep, that’s what you think, I’ll send a script” is infuriating.

      Which lets me know they’re doing it on purpose to cut costs by getting people to avoid getting care even if they can.

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        If you know the name of that ointment then I’m sure you can find it on a website somewhere.

        I’m lucky, I don’t have to pay for doctors or prescriptions. But if I did then I’d deffo buy ointment off the net rather than wait and wait and wait.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          If it’s available by prescription I don’t think it’s available online. But I might be able to find something similar at Tractor Supply. Their apple-flavored antibiotics work and taste great.

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            If you are not bothered about the legality then most things are found online if you go to the correct places…