Please Help, Scared, No Insurance, Need Advice. Posted: 07-26-06 12:31pm
Hi.
I'm a 19 year old female. I have no
insurance right now, so i'm not able to
just make a doctor's appointment. If it
seems like it's something more serious,
though, I might find a doctor and just pay
for it.
Problem 1:
i've dealt with this problem before, but
it would come and go after 1 day, or just
hours. But, for the past few days, it's
been coming frequently and staying longer.
I'm not sure what triggers it, because it
seems to happen very randomly. A few
weeks ago it happened after I had just
been at my friends house for a while, went
outside for a few moments on the front
steps. Only thing I touched in that time
was her railing. Not too much later I
noticed my hands were having issues.
Here is what happens to them...
I see red blotches, with no particular
shape...Sort of round, but blotchy none
the less. They appear to be under the
skin, but can still be seen. My hands
start to feel "tight" for lack of a better
word, have a tingly/almost itchy feeling
that I find rather hard to explain.
It's very uncomfortable, and scary because
i'm not sure what it means.
Sometimes the red blotches will go away
and white ones will show instead. At this
point the tightness/uncomfortable feeling
is much less severe but still a little bit
noticable.
If this makes any difference...When I
shovel or clean off a car in the snow, or
work with a shovel or something for too
long, my hands get very tight, swollen,
and appear sort of white/red and very
tense/hard.
Now on top of this, starting last night I
have a sore throat. The pain is something
I can deal with, but I can't tell if it
will get worse or not. My throat feels
somewhat slimey, but not too bad. My nose
is a little bit runny, also not bad at
all.
But still, i'm scared that this might be a
severe situation so please help.
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mama5603
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 135
Posted: 07-26-06 12:55pm
If I was you I would go to the hopital and
have them check you out I have never heard
of something like that happening so just
go to the er. Then you can pay payments
on that bill.... How long has this been
happening?
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ndbtluver
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 3
Posted: 07-26-06 13:18pm
Well the problem that happens while
shoveling has sort of always been there.
I remember it used to happen to my legs
when i'd be outside playing for a while in
the snow.
The blotches, i'm honestly not too sure
when the first time I noticed it was. But
sometimes my fingers would randomly feel
swollen. I just assumed the issues had
something to do with each other, that it
was my diet and the amount of sodium/water
I was taking in.
I've recently changed my diet a lot, cut
sodium out as much as possible, and have
lost about 57 pounds since january. Now,
I don't have problems with my
fingers/hands randomly swelling but this
red blotch problem is there still.
I feel like maybe it has something to do
with circulation, but i'm not sure. I
have been spending a lot more time at home
and on the computer the last few days.
But, I used to spend a lot of time at the
computer when I was a little younger and
this wasn't an issue. So, I dunno if
sitting at the keyboard for so long has
anything to do with it.
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sandyallen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
Posted: 07-26-06 13:22pm
They also have those immediaate care
facilities that are similar to er if you
do not like going to er but their are also
dr and hospitals that will take payments
and some will even knock some off the bill
if you do not hve insurance. Have you
applied for state aide?
Good luck?
Keep us posted.
We are here for you!
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mama5603
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 135
Posted: 07-26-06 13:22pm
I would still go to the er what if
something happens to you if you don't go I
would go just to be safe.
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msconcerned1
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 2 Location: brooklyn
Please Help Posted: 07-26-06 14:49pm
Hi, I am not sure what state you live in
but it is very important you find out
about any aid for your state for people
whom do not have health insurance. The
matter at hand is your health and your
body (you only have one in a lifetime)!
Its signs that your body give off to let
us know something isn't right, we must
listen. It amazes me how we take care and
time of everyone and thing else but
ourselves we second guess and
procrastinate.
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innovaty
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 6
Posted: 07-28-06 13:52pm
I'm not a doctor, but the blotches may be
a sign from your body when you are
overheating or overexercising.
When spending a lot of time doing no
exercise (keyboarding is no exercise), and
suddenly doing something, even just
standing up quickly, your body can't react
that fast so there is not enough blood and
nutrients going to all your body, so you
may feel dizzy and you may get blotches.
You also mention that you lost 57 pounds
being 19 years old, this tells me you were
overweight, or you're anorexic, neither is
good.
Recommendations: go see a doctor, eat and
exercise properly to reach the recommended
weight according to your
completion/age/height. Take life easier,
being 19 you still have a lot to learn, so
enjoy life and take it one step at a
time.
Hope you get well.
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ndbtluver
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 3
Posted: 07-28-06 16:39pm
innovaty
wrote:
i'm not a doctor, but the
blotches may be a sign from your body when
you are overheating or overexercising.
When spending a lot of time doing no
exercise (keyboarding is no exercise), and
suddenly doing something, even just
standing up quickly, your body can't react
that fast so there is not enough blood and
nutrients going to all your body, so you
may feel dizzy and you may get blotches.
You also mention that you lost 57 pounds
being 19 years old, this tells me you were
overweight, or you're anorexic, neither is
good.
Recommendations: go see a doctor, eat and
exercise properly to reach the recommended
weight according to your
completion/age/height. Take life easier,
being 19 you still have a lot to learn, so
enjoy life and take it one step at a
time.
Hope you get
well.
well the 57 pounds is because I was
overweight, but now I do eat right and
exercise on a fairly regular basis and i'm
not all that far from my goal weight.
The problem disappeared, and I treated my
throat with some home remedies and that
went away after one day. Right now I seem
to have a cold.
I still don't know what it is that makes
my hands get so tense and swollen when i'm
shoveling, but I do think the blotches and
tightness had something to do with blood
flow since it was just those 3 days where
I hadn't been doing much at all.
And on top of it I hadn't been getting
much sleep, so I think my whole system was
thrown off. That used to happen to me
quite often, so I just need to force
myself to not get into the bad habit of
not sleeping.
The medical insurance I used to have was
public aid because my mom is a single
mother, but once I turned 19 I was no
longer eligible. I'm going to find out if
there's anything else, but I don't think
there is. I'm just going to have to find
a job with coverage.
Thank you all for the advice. I feel
alright, but if this problem comes up
again I definitely will go to the er. I'm
not really comfortable going on my own,
and my mom's out of town anyways. Plus, I
know for a fact they wouldn't do anything
now that the problem is gone. Trust me,
i've seen what the er and even urgent care
does, and they're worthless unless your
arm is falling off.
