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I work at a school as a paraprofessional with sped students. I love my job and my kiddos, but I hate my workload especially with how it affects my daily life with pots, and especially compared to my pay rate.I go home every day exhausted to the point where I can’t cook, I can’t clean, and I can’t properly take care of myself (shower, brush teeth, etc.) I’m on my feet all day and even with accommodations, I can’t avoid that. There are very few chances I actually get to sit down throughout the day and when I do, I’m usually right back up again in a matter of minutes. My pay is $17,000 salary 🫠 I can barely pay for rent, gas, and food, let alone get to enjoy life- ever.This year, I started paying for insurance through my job. Most cases, when I need to go to the doctor for “typical” things, like the flu or something similar, I have a $0 copay. But when I need to go to the doctor to re-prescribe my medicine for POTS…or anything POTS related for that matter…it’s a $70 copay. $70 that I do not have. After rent, I have to live off of $40 for the next 2 weeks, including things like groceries and gas. There is literally no way that I could go in to see this specialist simply because I cannot afford it. They even offered for me to pay half now and half later, but again I only have $40 to spend on everything I need for the next 2 weeks. Impossible.To top it all off, the only specialist who is in network for my insurance and is willing to take POTS patients is a cardiologist. Every cardio I’ve been to, has told me “there’s nothing wrong with your heart. it’s just anxiety” despite my official POTS dx I got from a previous neurologist who no longer takes my insurance. Even the cardio who claimed to be a POTS specialist. I know there is nothing wrong with my heart, bc this disorder is not a heart disorder. It’s a nervous system issue, that simply affects the heart. Yet still, no neurologists in my area who is in my network will take POTS pts 🫠I’m scared that when I do finally scrape up $70 to see this cardio, that he’ll tell me what every other cardio has told me. That there’s nothing wrong with me and I don’t need the medicine that I’ve been prescribed and taking for the past 3 years. The medicine that has been the only thing keeping me from being bed ridden. And that he won’t re-prescribe it and I will have wasted $70. I only have a month’s worth left 😢as the title states, I’m feeling hopeless and like I should just give up trying and give in to my symptoms. Let myself become bedridden and then maybe someone will take me serious. I hate living in a capitalist hell that doesn’t care for its people’s health enough to make healthcare affordable or at least pay its people enough to get by😢
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