I have called everywhere known to man. There is nothing like that for miles and miles I called even places an hour away... it just isn't available here.
I found one clinic, they saw me 4 months after my first phone call and it took them almost 3 months to call me back. It is all volunteer based.
Symptoms aren't there what am I going to do go to the ER and say my stomach aches and I feel dizzy? Without insurance they aren't going to do any of the tests they'd do for someone with insurance (been dancing that game since last April).
I will hopefully have insurance soon now that I am finally working again at somethign that will actually give me insurance, and I'll go then if one of these episodes happens again. Or I will discuss it at my first appointment (which is probably a good idea). I think I have about 2 more months before insuance kicks in. I waited longer than that to get into the only clinic I found to see me. Even that clinic only does prevenative care, meaning no specialized care, no x-rays, or anything like that. It is for people with things like High BP and need check ups and refills, or someone with depression who needs antidepressants, or any other "normal" type thing that goes on.
The past 11 months have really been some of the roughest for me, and I haven''t exaclty had the easieist life. I went from working since I was about 14 to being laid off and not workign for the first time in my life at 29 years old. From a paycheck to paycheck gig, to no paycheck, to unemployment, to loosing unemployment to waitressing and making if I was lucky $30 on a full shift it really stunk. Finally I have a "real" job again.