I have tried calling multiple hospitals, urgent cares, surgeons, dental schools, etc. just to get me in for a damn surgery. I can’t handle the pain anymore. It hurts so bad. I’ve been dealing with this for 6 fucking years. Financial struggles, parents who hate doctors but love their Adderall and weed more than their kids. Like shit I love weed too but people come first before that. I’m 24 need 4 wisdom teeth extractions and a root canal. I luckily have a family health insurance plan that I could use I thought. Well I was wrong, it doesn’t work for shit.
Each place I call first for an affordable option before I even consider using my health insurance either has only extractions for regular teeth removal, or they don’t do that at all in my area. I don’t have the funds or someone who has the time to go to Mexico or else I’d be happy right now. I start calling surgeons in network and out of network who’s the soonest I can get in with most of these appointments are a month or more out. Either I didn’t do enough research or I’m being super fucked until I find a place that can get me in next week for a consultation. So I get the appointment that’s in network with the health insurance I forgot I had.
Everything sounds great at the appointment just have to wait max 7-10 business days to get approved by my insurance for this surgery and the surgeon said I can schedule my surgery the next day or just the same week they call. I call my health insurance 7 days in because the pain has been so much more intense in the last few months than ever and worsening by the day. They say everything’s approved except the anesthesia and rpf treatment. Told me I can retry the anesthesia I go for it. Yesterday I get a call back from the doctors office everything’s covered except for the anesthesia and rpf treatment (why the hell did they tell me to retry it if they knew it was going to fail?? ) the total is $1400 something I can cover it’s fine. Then they say the soonest I can get in is a month from now why would you say I can get my surgery scheduled as soon as possible after the approval just for it to be a fucking month?!?!
I’m currently in so much pain I don’t know what to do I can’t wait anymore. I start looking up hospitals and urgent cares in network since the end totals are so bad after a visit I don’t want to try and go out of network. I visit all the websites see which are best especially since they have so few hospitals and urgent cares with dental services even when I do call they don’t have shit to help except some medication only if it’s an infection no extractions even though I read it on their damned sites that they fucking do! I hate this so much.
I have frequent headaches that are daily and lasting longer each time, ear pain, shooting pains down my arm, some pain behind my right eye as of most recently. I can’t speak for long periods of time without feeling the pain as the cavity actively scratches against my cheek and the back of my mouth constantly. I only eat once a day due to food lodging itself within my cavity and the scraping again. I can drink liquids properly I can only hold it within the confines of my teeth I can’t hold a mouthful of water or any liquid like I used to. I don’t know what to do. My boyfriend had to physically stop me for a full night when I tried to pull my tooth out myself I bought some cheap dental tools off of amazon to see the cavity since it faces my cheek not towards the inside of my mouth awhile back. I’m so depressed I’m probably dying because of my teeth or idk anymore something drastic. No place is available in the timeframe I need it and I can’t wait any longer.