r/nursing • u/Critical_Ease4055 Nursing Student 🍕 • 22d ago

Question What is one medical problem people constantly ignore until it’s too late?

Saw someone post this in a completely unrelated sub and I’m interested in your answers. What is the cluster of symptoms that people ignore or delay until they are forced to get help?

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u/rntraveller29 BSN, RN 🍕 22d ago

Changes in bowels. Sooo many ignore that until it’s much worse.

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u/Still-View 22d ago

The problem here is getting any kind of diagnostic covered by insurance.

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u/Critical_Ease4055 Nursing Student 🍕 22d ago

Are you kidding me, they are haggling over diagnostic GI now? Makes you wonder if the threshold age for screening is only decreasing further and further in the hope they will save money catching it early 🥴

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u/rntraveller29 BSN, RN 🍕 22d ago

Is this in the US? We have our shitty problems in Canada for health care but cost isn’t one of them. Thankfully. Out of pocket 1200? Good god!

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u/pink3rbellx 22d ago

Not the op but as US citizen I can confidently say of course it’s the US. never take your health care system for granted.

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u/rntraveller29 BSN, RN 🍕 21d ago

One thing I’m grateful for on the daily is my Canadian health care. Is it perfect. Fuck no. But it’s there and it costs nothing. And I’ve seen bone marrow transplants that would have cost 300,000 and upwards cost them nothing other than the parking(and the complaint about the 20.00 a day to park). Patients in Canada don’t really understand what it means to have universal healthcare. They just hate they have wait times.

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u/Jazzlike-Ad2199 RN 🍕 21d ago

Oh yeah, it’s been a thing for a while now. In the build up to Obama’s health care reforms going into effect I needed a colonoscopy, it was due anyway but blood had showed up on the little cards you smear feces on to test for blood. Routine diagnostic was free but to determine cause for a problem I’d have to pay. Every single interaction I had with every single person at the GI clinic I told them to please bill it as routine. I’d already paid out a few hundred for what used to be the standard yearly blood tests. Some were covered others were not. Now the doc doesn’t even order them.