Prescription Pain Killer Rant: Just had major abdominal surgery...

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10. it sucks; been there, but it gets better.

i get frequent migraines, 12-18 per month typically, sometimes daily for 3 months at a stretch.

i recently discovered botox for migraine helps. my insurance approved it. then my company switched to a different plan within the same carrier. they decided not to approve it but after months of fighting, they reversed and approved it. of course, they had no basis for ever denying it, as they had previously approved it, but this is what insurance companies do, this is how they make money, by delaying and denying.

in any event, i'm getting back on the botox in a couple weeks, so things should get better.

in the meanwhile, of course, i have to lean more heavily on my narcotics, because insurance companies are idiotic that way. well, no, just greedy. what the media won't tell you is that while treatment for narcotic addiction is expensive, the narcotics themselves are dirt cheap. at least, compared to other migraine medications. so insurance companies actually do several things to encourage narcotic use.