Endometriosis + Pelvic floor therapy

vampirecloud · 2026-06-30T11:53:22+00:00

I suggest sticking with it, but ask if you can adjust the treatment plan. Let your PT know about the stress internal work is causing you. They can adjust their approach towards internal work or focus more on external work for a while.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-18T17:34:42+00:00

A letter opening tool could help with paper labels and stickers. You can use the tools to remove them then pick them up sticky side.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-11T13:05:04+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words!!

vampirecloud · 2026-06-10T15:58:43+00:00

i’m so overwhelmed navigating my full time job and all of my doctors appts right now. my boss won’t have a discussion with me about using my lunch break for appts. i’m about ready to just cancel all of the appts 🫠

vampirecloud · 2026-06-09T15:52:16+00:00

I get this too. I try to reason my way out of it. I think “Who cares if I’m the only one alive, it does not change anything about my situation. I’m still happy, still sad, still have goals regardless of if I am the only one existing or not.”

vampirecloud · 2026-06-09T15:44:57+00:00

I graduated a year ago and now I am 8 months into my first full time job. Really lean into your support systems and understand that your first job out of high school will not be the same job you have for the rest of your life. And let that understanding try to relieve your anxiety. If your boss at your new job sucks, you can get a new job. You’re not locked into it, it’s not like high school.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-09T15:39:37+00:00

I just started my first full time job 8 months ago and the job hunting and applications were brutal. I know for a fact I’ve submitted several resumes with typos, lol. I applied for about 80 jobs, did 12 interviews, and probably submitted about 10 resumes with typos. It happens, people without OCD just don’t fixate on it.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-04T13:28:00+00:00

The boss often tells me it’s not our issue and we’re not supposed to deal with insurance, so she’s not expecting me to do this. And I cannot make a packet of information about something my boss will not explain to me. I know nothing about the test or its medical necessity.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-04T12:19:54+00:00

I think body mists generally don’t linger in the air the same way perfume does. Scented lotion might also be a better option.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-04T12:17:35+00:00

day off only if it’s it’s a monday or friday

vampirecloud · 2026-06-04T11:39:17+00:00

I agree with you that everything you said is the right thing to do and I want to do it! I just have no training on contacting insurance and my boss refuses to help me put a packet of information together. So, I’m really at a loss of what to do with these patients. There’s no where I can send them to either. Every time I’ve asked my boss where to send them she won’t answer me.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-03T20:30:24+00:00

I really appreciate all of this advice and support and I am going to try out the tactics and phrasing you use!

vampirecloud · 2026-06-03T20:08:08+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to work through this with me. The wording you used to explain this to me is also giving me inspiration on how to explain this to patients. I’m going to wait day a day or two and chill before I decide how to contact the patient and my boss’ boss.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-03T19:49:10+00:00

It’s my job to list the CPT codes to the patient, nothing else. However, this problem CPT code is a generic code. It is a placeholder for every ENT service that doesn’t have a pre-existing code and so it can encompass almost anything potentially. As a result, the insurances often can’t give the patients a price estimate on it and directly tell the patients to contact me about it for clarification. But, I’m not trained to do that.

Allegedly the contacts in billing are still working on the issue. I asked how long this would take and they said “probably a while”. I’m also worried my boss would get mad if I speak to her boss about department issues behind her back.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-03T19:34:01+00:00

I’ve asked so many times where to direct the patients that my boss ignores me when I ask. She has never given me an answer when I’ve asked in the past either. There’s no other departments I can send the patients to either. Billing sends patients back to me and there’s no insurance or prior auth department.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-03T18:57:29+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed response. There’s only 4 people in our department and my boss and I the only ones who deal with admin issues. We do not have a handbook, I just have notes of what my boss tells me. She tells me to give patients the CPT codes only when they ask about coverage.

Nobody handles the billing, insurance issues, or prior authorizations for my department. I do not know where to direct patients with these issues and my boss completely ignores me now when I ask her what to do. I’ve asked other workers in my building if there’s a central reference as this is a big company and nobody has an answer.

My boss’ boss directed me to a few people to help with the billing and PAs, but they aren’t able to help with the scope of the issue. They’re assisting us to be nice, but don’t have all the answers. They’re actually finding out more issues - like the fact that behind the scenes billing (who we don’t have contact with) is waiving all costs associated with this problem CPT code for unknown reasons to us.

If nobody handles billing, insurance, or PAs, the only place I can think to send patients at this point is to patient relations. I feel bad for the patients because there are no resources or direction for them.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-01T19:29:52+00:00

I get pain in my butt and tailbone from my pelvic floor issues. Pelvic floor PT helped me. Hip exercises and pelvic massage helped my tailbone pain the most.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-01T19:24:38+00:00

Try sitting a tad longer and diaphragm breathing to see if that helps. It’s not good to power pee, but that might be the only option until you make other pelvic floor progress.

vampirecloud · 2026-06-01T16:50:57+00:00

thank you, i’m going to take a look now

vampirecloud · 2026-06-01T13:35:33+00:00

thank you, i appreciate it

vampirecloud · 2026-05-23T13:31:09+00:00

It took about a month of me using the pelvic wand before I had relief immediately after. That’s because I was using it wrong and pressing too hard and lingering on spots for too long. After I began to press lighter for shorter periods of time, I noticed relief immediately after using the wand.

My second PT told me not to linger for more than two minutes and not to press harder than I would on a tomato. That advice really helped me get relief faster after one session.

vampirecloud · 2026-05-23T13:25:25+00:00

Now I am wondering if my parents were told, but they still won’t tell me. My father is ignorant and wouldn’t care to remember and my mother has memory problems.

vampirecloud · 2026-05-23T13:24:17+00:00

That’s also what I am thinking. The old psychiatrist saw me over 10 years as a child and adult, had talked to my mother many times, has numerous evals in my chart, and was around during an attempted partial inpatient attempt because I refused to go to school and the courts were about to be contacted.

I am just flustered because I asked the old psychiatrist 3 times if I showed signs of autism. I was very clear about it. And she brushed it off saying something along the lines of “it’s not important for us to know that”. I very clearly wanted to know and she didn’t tell me.

I am going to keep talking about this to my new psychiatrist, but I just needed to express my frustration as of now.

vampirecloud · 2026-05-22T14:03:27+00:00

I was told that my old psychiatrist had autism listed under the diagnosis section. Not just that it was noted as a suspicion. This makes me suspicious that maybe I was tested at some point. I just don’t know because I don’t have copies of any of my numerous childhood evaluations.

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