Zeraph

IIRC I shared my story a few years ago. But I mine well do a quick recap on my experience with healthcare. I was in college, (broke of course) and my family is fairly poor. So I didn't go to the doctor when I started having terrible seizures (didn't know then). It wasn't till years later that I learned I was getting an odd type of seizure, but I suffered for years where I wanted to kill myself because I didn't get any treatment. I had no idea what was happening to me and they'd come out of the blue. Its a rather horrifying experience not knowing when you'll lose control of your body. I was constantly nauseous, constantly in fear of when the next one would hit (was as often as once a week, and lasted for close to 24 hours...)

I should say I went to the docs a couple times out of pocket initially. But they had no luck figuring it out for several years. And I just didn't have enough money to go to a specialist at the time (especially because I needed to see an ENT and a neurologist many many times before they figured it out).