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Title: Been a while...
Post by: Magnus on September 23, 2011, 03:31:00 PM
Post by: Magnus on September 23, 2011, 03:31:00 PM
So where to start?
I'm covered with Kaiser Permanente through my mom's employer right now (and maybe until 2014). So I went to their 'mental health' place and had my first appointment over there a few days ago. Much to my dismay... they know absolutely nothing. The person they had there who deals with these 'problems' left and they basically said there is no program or procedure for this (but that there USED TO BE a program in the 1990's with a whole bunch of steps, one year of therapy before T and another before surgeries and etc.). So what this guy is going to do for me is to check into Kaiser's current policy on what they will and will not cover, if anything at all. So that's where that is and I'll be finding out sometime in October I guess.
And then there's some potentially good news, on the female junk front. I've officially (and finally) been diagnosed with Menorrhagia, which is all of a sudden not responding to contraceptives that I've been on since age 16 to control this very same problem. It has, in fact, been going on and on and on since August 28th and so perhaps, just perhaps, this is the grounds on which I will maybe be able to at least get them to rip out those parts. It can be life threatening... so I'm praying at least that will happen for me, so I won't have to deal with it: it's destroying my life and has ever since this crap started when I was 11 years old.
As for T... no freaking clue. Perhaps if they took that stuff out and I'd have to be on one or the other anyway, and I could find a cool physician with Kaiser, I'd be able to start it because of that. No idea though. Just a little update. Sorry I haven't been around. That might be changing soon, if I can finally get this ->-bleeped-<- rolling along in the right direction.
I'm covered with Kaiser Permanente through my mom's employer right now (and maybe until 2014). So I went to their 'mental health' place and had my first appointment over there a few days ago. Much to my dismay... they know absolutely nothing. The person they had there who deals with these 'problems' left and they basically said there is no program or procedure for this (but that there USED TO BE a program in the 1990's with a whole bunch of steps, one year of therapy before T and another before surgeries and etc.). So what this guy is going to do for me is to check into Kaiser's current policy on what they will and will not cover, if anything at all. So that's where that is and I'll be finding out sometime in October I guess.
And then there's some potentially good news, on the female junk front. I've officially (and finally) been diagnosed with Menorrhagia, which is all of a sudden not responding to contraceptives that I've been on since age 16 to control this very same problem. It has, in fact, been going on and on and on since August 28th and so perhaps, just perhaps, this is the grounds on which I will maybe be able to at least get them to rip out those parts. It can be life threatening... so I'm praying at least that will happen for me, so I won't have to deal with it: it's destroying my life and has ever since this crap started when I was 11 years old.
As for T... no freaking clue. Perhaps if they took that stuff out and I'd have to be on one or the other anyway, and I could find a cool physician with Kaiser, I'd be able to start it because of that. No idea though. Just a little update. Sorry I haven't been around. That might be changing soon, if I can finally get this ->-bleeped-<- rolling along in the right direction.
Title: Re: Been a while...
Post by: Jasper on September 23, 2011, 04:33:28 PM
Post by: Jasper on September 23, 2011, 04:33:28 PM
Well at least you've taken a step. Let's hope it's in the right direction!! ;D
Title: Re: Been a while...
Post by: Wolfsnake on September 23, 2011, 05:11:36 PM
Post by: Wolfsnake on September 23, 2011, 05:11:36 PM
I'm a Kaiser member and here in Northern CA they are incredibly trans-friendly. See if your practitioner can get in touch with the Oakland CA branch for some advice.
Title: Re: Been a while...
Post by: mm on September 26, 2011, 10:26:40 AM
Post by: mm on September 26, 2011, 10:26:40 AM
If you have a medical reason and insurance, I would get my extra parts removed as quickly as I could. I am too poor and young with no insurance so I will have to wait awhile.
Title: Re: Been a while...
Post by: Magnus on October 15, 2011, 08:08:03 PM
Post by: Magnus on October 15, 2011, 08:08:03 PM
Yep... I have another week and a half before I (hopefully) get the info I need to start something. I'll be 22 next month and that's two years over when I'd wanted to start T... as the younger you are when you do that, the better off everything will turn out (especially bone thickness and squaring-off in the face, I've read). I don't want to be in my 30's and going through puberty again... I'd rather do it now while I still look 14, you know?
And I had an ultrasound and they claim it is normal... problem is still ongoing... I'm about a breath away from stabbing the freaking thing so they'd HAVE to take it out. So frustrated with it I can't see straight. But apparently they won't remove those organs because I "might want to have a kid later"... and I have to say, even as a Constitutionalist Conservative myself but who has no want or desire to have a kid of my own, that this pro-life ->-bleeped-<- is getting ridiculous when an UNCONCEIVED zygote has more rights over my organs than I do... that's just crap.
I'll come back if I have any news. I know I've not been around much, it's just difficult for me right now reading everyone else getting their stuff done when I've been stuck in neutral for the past several years. I'm sure some of you will understand what I mean...
And I had an ultrasound and they claim it is normal... problem is still ongoing... I'm about a breath away from stabbing the freaking thing so they'd HAVE to take it out. So frustrated with it I can't see straight. But apparently they won't remove those organs because I "might want to have a kid later"... and I have to say, even as a Constitutionalist Conservative myself but who has no want or desire to have a kid of my own, that this pro-life ->-bleeped-<- is getting ridiculous when an UNCONCEIVED zygote has more rights over my organs than I do... that's just crap.
I'll come back if I have any news. I know I've not been around much, it's just difficult for me right now reading everyone else getting their stuff done when I've been stuck in neutral for the past several years. I'm sure some of you will understand what I mean...
Title: Re: Been a while...
Post by: insideontheoutside on October 15, 2011, 08:53:28 PM
Post by: insideontheoutside on October 15, 2011, 08:53:28 PM
Quote from: Magnus on October 15, 2011, 08:08:03 PM
And I had an ultrasound and they claim it is normal... problem is still ongoing... I'm about a breath away from stabbing the freaking thing so they'd HAVE to take it out. So frustrated with it I can't see straight. But apparently they won't remove those organs because I "might want to have a kid later"... and I have to say, even as a Constitutionalist Conservative myself but who has no want or desire to have a kid of my own, that this pro-life ->-bleeped-<- is getting ridiculous when an UNCONCEIVED zygote has more rights over my organs than I do... that's just crap.
I have heard that getting a hysto is one of the hardest medical procedures to make happen. Which I always thought was bull->-bleeped-<-. Yes, obviously the majority of people want to reproduce, etc. but there certainly are those people that don't want anything to do with that - yet they apparently have no rights at all to have that stuff removed. Even when you're having a dire health problem like you are, they claim that "everything is fine". Well, if you're bleeding all the time it's certainly not fine and you need to get a 2nd opinion at the very least.
Title: Re: Been a while...
Post by: Magnus on May 17, 2012, 08:03:17 PM
Post by: Magnus on May 17, 2012, 08:03:17 PM
Sorry I've not been around for a while again. Nothing's happened, at all. I am getting extremely frustrated too.
That 'therapist' never contacted me back, the second appointment went the same way as the first one and the guy didn't even remember me let alone get the information so I gave up on that. This is many in the long list of reasons why I positively DETEST 'therapy'...
I did however muster up the courage to speak with my primary physician (Internist) the other day about it and she is supposedly going to speak with her boss about it (OFF of my medical record, no names - I specifically made that very clear I do not need this complicating coverage or care as I do have a metabolic disorder that's been out of control from 12, diagnosed at 16 and so I really don't need that complicating getting coverage or whatever).
We'll see. If they won't cover at least the top surgery then I don't believe I will start T. I have been unable to find any work out here since graduation in 2007 so I am just kind of screwed on all fronts presently. Can't go to college without a job, can't do anything else without a job either so just don't know what in the hell to do about it.
Going to be 23 in about six months here. By the time (or IF I ever start) T would take full effect I'll be in my damn 30's and still in puberty, what I DIDN'T want. What a joy that is going to be...
Sorry for my negativity but GRRRRRRRRR!
That 'therapist' never contacted me back, the second appointment went the same way as the first one and the guy didn't even remember me let alone get the information so I gave up on that. This is many in the long list of reasons why I positively DETEST 'therapy'...
I did however muster up the courage to speak with my primary physician (Internist) the other day about it and she is supposedly going to speak with her boss about it (OFF of my medical record, no names - I specifically made that very clear I do not need this complicating coverage or care as I do have a metabolic disorder that's been out of control from 12, diagnosed at 16 and so I really don't need that complicating getting coverage or whatever).
We'll see. If they won't cover at least the top surgery then I don't believe I will start T. I have been unable to find any work out here since graduation in 2007 so I am just kind of screwed on all fronts presently. Can't go to college without a job, can't do anything else without a job either so just don't know what in the hell to do about it.
Going to be 23 in about six months here. By the time (or IF I ever start) T would take full effect I'll be in my damn 30's and still in puberty, what I DIDN'T want. What a joy that is going to be...
Sorry for my negativity but GRRRRRRRRR!