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I tried to go before, but insurance wouldn't pay. It's a long story, but the current insurance I have is my best bet overall because no matter if I lose a job or not I can still get asthma meds. My other insurance options would leave me open to not having any coverage in the event that I have to go to the doctor a lot, which has happened before. Again, it's a long story. National Jewish's programs for financial aid do not help me, since they told me I couldn't use them since I had health care insurance (even though the insurance was refusing to pay for a trip there).
The reason I haven't gone is due to healthcare insurance problems and cracks in the healthcare coverage system as well as how disability is determined in my state. If I qualified for disability, then I would have more healthcare insurance options.
So, I'll see what options are available when the exchanges start up and go from there. In the meantime, I spend my time doing things that should help overall-exercise, trying to improve my diet, etc. Like you, I would love to lose weight. It would make moving around so much easier.
I tried to go, but I haven't been able to due to cost and healthcare insurance issues. I'll see what happens in October. Thanks for the feedback.View Thread





As already mentioned, I added in fruit smoothies with 3 bananas at least 3 times a week, and I guess the bananas took care of it becuase as long I keep that up, I'm fine. If I don't keep it up, the cramps come back.View Thread



The main thing that concerned me at the time was that there where no studies that looked at the long term effect of Xolair, so it was an unknown. It could be better or worse than prednisone in the long term. I would rather know my monster so would have refused it even if my IgE was high. But, there's no right or wrong answer....some would take the chance in hopes that it is better than prednisone in the long term.
I would look for studies of the long term effects of Xolair. My doctor brought this up several years ago, so I don't know if they exist now or not.
Since I never took it, I can't give you a report of my experiences with it. I have heard on this board some people who've had good results with it. Good luck...View Thread

I went to the natural food store today to get more anti itch lotion. I noted they had added two other items made by the same manufacturer. One is a creme for psoriasis and eczema (it has neem, burdock root, bearberry, Fagara bark extract, and a bunch of other root and leaf extracts.) It is thicker creme and looks like it stays on longer than the lotion. It says it both soothes dry skin and relieves itching and it moisturizes dry skin. They had another creme with antibacterial stuff (like tea tree oil, which is a weak antibacterial agent). The lady said she didn't know the difference, but since the doctors said I probably had atopic dermatitis or eczema then probably the creme for eczema and psoriasis would be best. She then said, "but the best supplement is the one you don't have to be on for the rest of your life....so if you can do something internal, you should. What are you doing wrong that you have to use this stuff consistently?"
Well, that goes to show the amount of support you get from those who don't understand that sometimes a person has a medical condition and doesn't do anything wrong in accordance to current knowledge and yet still has it. I'm doing all I know to do, perhaps I'm ignorant of what to do, but ignorance is not the same as negligence.
I'm glad your doctor is open minded. Thanks again for your support and thoughts, both of you. By the way, I bought two of the creme to see if it will work better. I'll just keep trying new things until something works. Thanks again.View Thread
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