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Primary doc wants to see me 2x year (IMO once a year is enough but her office is close so), dermo doc also wants 2x year and gastro PA 1x year to renew my meds for gastro condition. It's really a LOT of doctor appts when dental is added in.
At least I don't have a gyno exam anymore at almost 70.
Also an eye exam every year. I should see my ear doc once a year but since I got hearing aids from Costco he isn't much interested in seeing me. Costco doesn't so yearly hearing tests anymore, I asked because it's been 2 years since getting hearing aids and was told they'd changed policy to every 2 years for hearing tests (no longer every year).
So that is 7 doctor appts a year not counting times that I actually NEED something like antibiotics or a vax (I get that done at CVS). Then add in the times I want to drive my slightly older husband to an appointment where maybe his eyes get dilated or he isn't feeling well enough to drive.
More appointments I haven't done that doctors want me to do: mammogram, bone density and colonoscopy.
Too Too Many Doctors Appointments!!
LOL, I hear you! Kinda reminds me of when I was back in my early 50's trying to imagine how I might get through my old age without ever having to see a doctor. I realized that was not likely as I started taking prescription meds for high blood pressure, then heart rate control, but thought maybe I might manage those with a once a year visit to a primary care doc.
Around that time I overheard two elderly gentlemen talking, one of them commented " geez, if I didn't have all these doctors' appointments, I would have no social life at all!" I felt so sorry for that guy, having to go through so many doctors' visits they took up that much of his time, and I figured that was for sure not a fun way to spend one's old age.
Well... fast forward a number of years and various old-age related maladies creeping in, requiring some sort of medical management to keep any kind of a quality of life, and here I am. My visits to docs annually include, two to my PCP, two to the cardiologist, three to the eye doc ( for treatment of glaucoma), and currently four to the oncologist ( cancer surveillance), and to the dentist twice a year.. Additionally there is an annual in-office pacemaker check, CT scans twice a year. This is all for wellness checks, any visits for problems would be more, but I try to avoid those.
I try to keep my social life active so I don't have more doctors' visits than I have fun things to do. But yeah, I agree with you, too too many doc's visits.
LOL, I hear you! Kinda reminds me of when I was back in my early 50's trying to imagine how I might get through my old age without ever having to see a doctor. I realized that was not likely as I started taking prescription meds for high blood pressure, then heart rate control, but thought maybe I might manage those with a once a year visit to a primary care doc.
Around that time I overheard two elderly gentlemen talking, one of them commented " geez, if I didn't have all these doctors' appointments, I would have no social life at all!" I felt so sorry for that guy, having to go through so many doctors' visits they took up that much of his time, and I figured that was for sure not a fun way to spend one's old age.
Well... fast forward a number of years and various old-age related maladies creeping in, requiring some sort of medical management to keep any kind of a quality of life, and here I am. My visits to docs annually include, two to my PCP, two to the cardiologist, three to the eye doc ( for treatment of glaucoma), and currently four to the oncologist ( cancer surveillance), and to the dentist twice a year.. Additionally there is an annual in-office pacemaker check, CT scans twice a year. This is all for wellness checks, any visits for problems would be more, but I try to avoid those.
I try to keep my social life active so I don't have more doctors' visits than I have fun things to do. But yeah, I agree with you, too too many doc's visits.
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yeah, seriously.
and right now, I still have a 99 temperature, comes and goes and I am on the 4th day of Methylprednisolone plus the cough syrup....kill me right now.
and I have to have my eyes checked (as I read a lot), and I think I need stronger glasses, so there's now another visit, and new glasses
At 69 I have to go to my GP yearly for her to renew my HBP meds and asthma meds. The last few years I have had to go yearly to a dermatologist for an exam because my mom and grandpa had many different types of skin cancer. I have had a few precancerous spots that they have frozen off. I do most preventative tests but not all. For instance I won’t do the bone density scan because I am not taking any more medication unless absolutely necessary.
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