I just settled in to open my snail mail. I received a notification from my insurance company stating they only covered 20% of the torture of getting the friggin' IUD. This is after the doctor's office checked with them and was informed the insurance company covered one hundred percent of this procedure. In fact, I didn't even need to pay the $30.00 co-pay for a specialist visit.
I am steamed.
First of all, this stupid thing has caused me nothing but pain, discomfort and excessive woman-yukkiness. It's a birth control method alright - who the heck wants to be near THAT? Certainly not my husband.
And they want me to pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars for it? I don't think so. Tomorrow I'm going directly to the doctor's office. I know there is a whole explanation in my file concerning what the insurance company approved because the insurance handler (I'm sure that's the wrong title for her) had to point out the note to the receptionist as she was trying to get a co-pay from me.
*shaking head*
I'm not even sure I'm keeping this thing in. It was a mistake to agree to this. I'm getting worse instead of better. Supposedly these "symptoms" are normal and they could take years to subside. Excuse me, I live with chronic pain already, don't you think someone could have filled me in on the bad stuff instead of "all the benefits." I should have insisted he tie my tubes just like I wanted. I cannot imagine the recovery time would have been worse than the weeks of misery I've already experienced.
I was chilled when I got home from working with the horses in the pouring rain but now I can feel the heat coming off my body and from my face.
Pissed, pissed, pissed.
Naturally, tomorrow when I go to the doctor's office I will be nice and appeal for their help. They are the ones who told me, more than once, this procedure was covered 100%. I am such a penny pincher, if it was going to cost me anything I would have investigated every other avenue and compared prices.
Now I feel the doctor's office gave me the pharmaceutical company's rose-colored glasses presentation and none of the real life experiences. I hope they didn't do the same with the insurance assurances.
Deep, cleansing breath.