Guest guest Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 , The military pharmacy should be able to get Levoxyl as well...that's what I was on through our base pharmacies for a long time and I did much better on it than the brand name Synthroid. The doc can specify which brand. Have you tried the mail order pharmacy??? They should be able to ship to any base worldwide... The unfortunate trick with military docs is to kinda flatter them into thinking they're making the decision while all along you're kinda wheedling them in your direction...it's truly an art form and I've become very good at it!!! I just had my first ever endocrinology appointment today after 6 years of begging for one. The alternative is to get mean and when they refuse to do what needs a doing...write a letter stating they've refused you this treatment and you demand they sign it and you want a copy in your file. Tricare TRIES to dictate a lot of what they do and a lot of the docs wimp out and allow it. We can't let that happen. Tricare is NOT our doctor-our doctor is. The claims person with a high school degree shouldn't be telling the MD or DO what we need-our doctors should. It's unfortunate that managed care has made things this way now. Can you tell this is a sore spot??? I spent all week last week on the phone trying to get the practice I work for paid by managed care companies. We have patient accounts that are unpaid all the way back to January at this point. It truly sucks... Grr... Forgive my rant, please and I so hope you get the proper treatment you need AND deserve!!! From one military spouse to another.... ____________________________ in *mild* Jerseyopen proximal rny 9/18/015'9", 31yo297/173 Quote
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2006 Report Posted August 29, 2006 I could go on for days about Tri-And-Get-Care. Hah! LOL. I have so far been fortunate enough to get either new docs who don't know any better yet, or resident docs who know better than to listen to what Tricare tries to dictate to them, and the doc I have here seems good too. I think (not positive) that my doc here is an Endo. Gonna check next time if I think to, just out of curiousity! She knows a LOT about the hormones and stuff, and she's an obgyn at least and they are usually great with thyroid patients in my experience. Re: Pregnancy and HypoT , The military pharmacy should be able to get Levoxyl as well...that's what I was on through our base pharmacies for a long time and I did much better on it than the brand name Synthroid. The doc can specify which brand. Have you tried the mail order pharmacy??? They should be able to ship to any base worldwide... The unfortunate trick with military docs is to kinda flatter them into thinking they're making the decision while all along you're kinda wheedling them in your direction...it's truly an art form and I've become very good at it!!! I just had my first ever endocrinology appointment today after 6 years of begging for one. The alternative is to get mean and when they refuse to do what needs a doing...write a letter stating they've refused you this treatment and you demand they sign it and you want a copy in your file. Tricare TRIES to dictate a lot of what they do and a lot of the docs wimp out and allow it. We can't let that happen. Tricare is NOT our doctor-our doctor is. The claims person with a high school degree shouldn't be telling the MD or DO what we need-our doctors should. It's unfortunate that managed care has made things this way now. Can you tell this is a sore spot??? I spent all week last week on the phone trying to get the practice I work for paid by managed care companies. We have patient accounts that are unpaid all the way back to January at this point. It truly sucks... Grr... Forgive my rant, please and I so hope you get the proper treatment you need AND deserve!!! From one military spouse to another.... ____________________________ in *mild* Jerseyopen proximal rny 9/18/015'9", 31yo297/173 Quote
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