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I like to have my bloodwork done just for fun to monitor the basics. I also have a bicuspid aortic valve that regurgitates moderately that they like to do an echo on every 18 months or so even though there's little change.
Maybe 1-2 times per year. I shouldn't have voted one or less after thinking about it more. Oh well. I contribute the max they allow into my HSA account and keep it invested in an index fund... tax free money invested in the market I can use to pay future health expenses... why not?
Im 47 and I go once a year only because I collect a disability from the VA and was told I need to do so in order to stay current. Before the VA, I had been to the doctor maybe 3 times in 10 years.
I go to my ob/gyn (well woman checkup), optometrist (for contact lens prescription), and oncologist (just to say hi, more or less) once a year each.
I went to urgent care once this year for a UTI.
I haven't had a standard well checkup with a primary care physician for more years than I can remember. Maybe 30+ years. I was just thinking about scheduling one (free with our insurance) to get basic bloodwork etc.
I went through cancer treatment twice (2008 and 2014). There were periods when I had multiple doctor appointments every week. I had multiple surgeries. I had chemotherapy. It all really sucked. Then there were years when I had scans and appointments with several specialists twice yearly. Right now I am just really enjoying not having to go to the doctor very often.
Excluding dental and eye wellness exam, in an average year 1-2 times; once to my cardiologist, maybe to my PCP. Every few years another visit or two for periodic screenings (colonoscopy etc.). We don't have "urgent care" options here so if it isn't an outright emergency, you either see a PCP or deal with it yourself. I've been to an emergency room twice since my one and only car accident in 1997.
Twice in this century. Once for eye issue which turned out to be an internal stye, which he said was best left alone, and the other for a physical. To us, preventive medicine means being proactive in our choices. I swear as a kid, every time we went to the doctor, we came home with something worse than we went there to get rid of! So far, so good at almost 7 decades!
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I am nearly eighty and I only go to renew my scripts twice a year.
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