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March 9, 2006, 4:40 pm PST
look for help....
Quote From: reena9The only thing I really found interesting and useful for me as a person with Bipolar is the brain imaging. I wish I could have that done, I wonder how much is costs. Wouldn't it be nice to have that kind of technology available for everyone going through this? It would have eliminated all of those years in my early twenties trying every mediation possible including drugs and acholol just to shut my brain off. Finally 8 years later I found the right combo of meds that don't zone me out with little side effects. But I would still today like to do that brain imaging thing.
i, too, was very interested in these tests. i went to the link for the company wand was dismayed to see they were in co and ca. then i started researching it on the net and i found out the tests has been out for a few years. i looked for sites in my home state and only turned up 2, a distance away from me. i called a local large teaching hospital and spoke to the people in nuclear imaging. they knew exactly what i was referring to. all i need is a prescription from my doctor, and if there is a documented need for the test, medicare will pay for it. i don't know about private insurance, but it seems to me, since it is an fda approved diagnostic test, they should cover it. i hope this helps. God bless.
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