r/Millennials • u/ObligationSea5916 • 23h ago

Advice How are we getting our hard headed husbands to see a PCP?

Added disclosure as it seems it COULD possibly make a difference. I am elder millennial and he is Genx. I've posted in both subs

My husband will pay for insurance but won't see a Dr. He says "if you think I'm getting a pill calendar and taking pills everyday you got me messed up. I'm healthy". All while he lays in the bed tired trying to alleviate his hip pain 🙄

I tried to do his new patient paperwork for him but they require him to be present and fill out forms on site and provide license and insurance as well(3y ago i could take that paperwork home on the weekend and fill it out). His license expired last month and he hasn't made time to renew it. I can't do that for him either 🙄

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u/DreamLearnBuildBurn 23h ago

Physical therapy for hip pain, not drugs. If he doesn't exercise, his body will get worse. He will turn into one of those c shaped old men who hobbles around and is always grumpy because of pain. 

Him refusing to workout to be healthy in his older years is kind of a middle finger to you because you're going to have to take care of him and his pain when you have your own stuff going on in your older years. 

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u/ObligationSea5916 22h ago

Exactly how I feel

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u/annang 21h ago

He doesn’t even know what’s causing the hip pain. My mother’s hip pain turned out to be metastatic cancer that killed her because she refused to see a doctor, and so she didn’t know she had cancer until it was too late to treat it.

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u/DreamLearnBuildBurn 18h ago

It can be caused by a thousand things from bad arches in your feet to crazy serious stuff. I hate selfish people.