What my Austrian insurer required

Started 20 January 2025 · 21 replies · 235 hearts · read 2k times

BoazHaarlem, NL · 20 January 2025

1.5 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: What my Austrian insurer required

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

IlseMaastricht, NL

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

22me too 4

FreyaReykjavík, IS

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

VeraRiga, LV

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

SaskiaThe Hague, NL

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

7me too 8

MarenBremen, DE

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

XanBerlin, DE

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

DelphiThessaloniki, GR

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

MintaColchester, UK

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

LandoLeeds, UK

#10

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

OskarWarsaw, PL

#11

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

FenellaCirencester, UK

#12

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

10me too 1

GittaBonn, DE

#13

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

OmarAmman, JO

#14

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

CoralieMarseille, FR

#15

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

MinaLisbon, PT

#16

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

ZenBristol, UK

#17

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

LenaMunich, DE

#18

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

OdessaLviv, UA

#19

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

NoorFacilitatorSingapore

#20

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

AnnaAthens, GR

#21

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.