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Kajiimagi

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I'll be in Las Vegas Monday in part because it's my birthday. Asked my wife if she wanted to watch a cirque show. We've seen all of them at least once. Went to get tickets for MJ One and apparently they don't do local discounts anymore. Ok fine but there was over $100 in fucking made up service fees ?! Guess we're watching TV at home Monday.
 
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What the fuck is this new requirement to confirm a reaction to a post? Cut that shit out.
 
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Burren said:
What the fuck is this new requirement to confirm a reaction to a post? Cut that shit out.
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I used to get that sometimes. I think the page didn't load all the way. Either that or you were put on the discouraged user list.
 
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ToeMissile

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Kajiimagi said:
I was really allergic to strawberries when I was a kid. Didn't stop me from eating them though. I'm not now. The micro dosing thing probably has merit.
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It does, depending on the allergy and severity, they’ll start with pollen and work up from there. I know a couple families that have done it for nut allergies.
 
Haus

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I probably said this before. But I once had an ultrasound done at the local hospital. I have a high deductible plan so I paid for the entire thing before the procedure. A few weeks later they tried to collect 'the rest of the money' from me because the insurance said I owed more. Got to looking into it and figured out they mis coded it and called it an emergency x ray. It was neither an emergency nor an X ray. What pissed me off the most was that neither the insurance company nor the hospital gave a fuck. The insurance company told me there was no way to fix it and the hospital said they weren't going to. Prior to that I always looked at my EOB statements to make sure they were correct. Now there's no point. That shit all goes straight in the trash. I filed a complaint with some state agency but if anything ever came of it, nobody told me.

So yeah I guess if I ever need something like that again I'll look for an independent center. I'm thinking of getting a life alert bracelet with a message to not take me to that hospital under any circumstances. That place actually has the highest mortality rate of any hospital in our region and it's not because they specialize in something especially deadly. I think they specialize in insurance fraud and unnecessary procedures.
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I handle all my mom's finances and my sister coordinates all her medical stuff...

Recently I get a text from one of her Dr's (Cardiologist) about her owning over $400 for some scan. I look into it. The Dr's website says the insurance paid $5, the insurance website says it's paid $150 and the rest was covered in the discount the insurance company gets from the Dr. I go back to the Dr and point this out, send all the documentation, and they say "Well, it is what the system says it is". And that's the exact full extent they will do anything on it.

So at this point, like you, anything that ends up in a dispute like this we just ignore. What are they gonna do? Sue a 75 year old who only has Social Security and Medicare to her name? Fuck em.
 
Haus

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ToeMissile said:
It does, depending on the allergy and severity, they’ll start with pollen and work up from there. I know a couple families that have done it for nut allergies.
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As explained by a Dr I had once, over time your body's histamine system (which regulates what you are and aren't allergic to) can partially rotate. Which means you can gain and lose allergies over your lifetime, and most people lose them over time. When I was a wee Haus I was allergic to a stupidly long list of shit, over time (in my late teens mostly) I seem to have cycled out of almost all of them. Now I just can't walk barefoot in Bermuda grass, and can't eat tomatoes. For instance into my teens I could be around cats at all (sneezing, nose would start running, eyes watering, etc...) , for the last 20 years we've had a cat around our house and no problems.
 
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Haus said:
As explained by a Dr I had once, over time your body's histamine system (which regulates what you are and aren't allergic to) can partially rotate. Which means you can gain and lose allergies over your lifetime, and most people lose them over time. When I was a wee Haus I was allergic to a stupidly long list of shit, over time (in my late teens mostly) I seem to have cycled out of almost all of them. Now I just can't walk barefoot in Bermuda grass, and can't eat tomatoes. For instance into my teens I could be around cats at all (sneezing, nose would start running, eyes watering, etc...) , for the last 20 years we've had a cat around our house and no problems.
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As a kid my mom could roll around in poison oak to no effect. In her early 30s that changed to weeping open sores after contact.

I would guess ‘cycling out’ of an allergy is less likely with increased severity
 
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Yeah growing up nothing bothered me, then 35 hit an I am allergic to being “outside” and take Zyrtec every other day just to not be randomly itchy
 
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