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What's Normal? - Do you get a physical/checkup every year with a doctor? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Keerock
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AAABatteries
Footballguy
Yep - I don’t understand people that don’t unless they don’t have the insurance or money. So many issues and conditions are treatable if caught early.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Due to my age and bad habits (smoking,diet) I should but only go when I need to. Last checkup was pre COVID 
Keerock
Caveman
Me too... 2017 was may last one. Scheduling one now...Due to my age and bad habits (smoking,diet) I should but only go when I need to. Last checkup was pre COVID
Keerock
Caveman
Honestly, I agree with you. But it just hasn't been on my radar, plus I always rationalize "let me just get in better shape/lose some weight first"
Poke_4_Life
Footballguy
Yes. Started this habit a year or two before Covid and have kept it up. The physical part is pretty short as I'm <50, but I do get a fasting blood panel to check my numbers. So far, so good.
Also, the main thing that got me started doing this is 1) it is covered by my insurance and 2) my employer actually pays me $100 to get one annually.
Also, the main thing that got me started doing this is 1) it is covered by my insurance and 2) my employer actually pays me $100 to get one annually.
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
I know I should, but I don’t. No real excuse for it aside from I don’t like going to doctors or hospitals. Because of that, I find myself only going almost as a last resort type of thing.
Skipdog77
Footballguy
Coward.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
You'll just end up spending more time in the hospital than you otherwise would. And for doofus stuff, too.
Doug B
Footballguy
Insurance isn't even good enough, really. They "find something early", and then you end getting treated (and charged) chronically for it on an ongoing basis.
Sounds silly, I realize ... but not knowing, not being bled that co-pay cash, and then dealing with disaster in 20 years can seem weirdly enticing to the deep lizard brain. For a lot of people, too ... having to regularly put out co-pays is a de facto pay cut that affects standard of living.
Doug B
Footballguy
This kind of thing certainly helps.
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
I voted yes, but not a full physical. Our insurance company does yearly screenings (blood test, b/p, weight, etc.) which give a small discount on insurance premiums and you meet (now virtually since Covid) with a nurse practitioner to go over your results, get recommendations, questions answered, etc.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
I totally get the monetary factor but we are all FBGs and set fires with 100's - yet over 50% of us don't get a physical every year. Just do it fellas.
PlayaHata
Footballguy
I started getting annual physicals a few years ago, starting around age 50 - which brings me to my pet peeve for the day. Most all insurance companies cover an annual well visit or physical, which is supposed to mean no charge, including my insurance. Yet my doctor's office has a policy that basically anything that you discuss including chronic conditions or any new conditions does not apply to said well visit so every single year I get charged and have to pay out-of-pocket from my HSA funds. It pisses me off every single year when I get that insurance claim and bill.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Get a new doctors office. My doc always asks if I have any questions or other concerns and I'm never billed extra for those conversations.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Same.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
every January, since I was 37
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Yep - that’s a ****ty policy. I’d tell them so and find a new doctor.
jhib
Footballguy
An upcoming scheduled visit actually is a good motivator for me. A month or two before it I think, "Uh oh, gotta go check in, get weighed, get blood checked, etc pretty soon. Better get in better shape/lose some weight before then."
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
I’ve tried to but doctors keep switching offices, closing, etc. So annoying.
belljr
Footballguy
Well what happened to me is my doctor passed away suddenly in a car accident.
I went for one sick appointment during covid right after it happened.
I have no idea who the doctor in the office is now
General Malaise
Poop Lord
As a giant fat guy who can't control himself, I have to take meds for cholesterol and high blood pressure. My doc won't renew scripts unless I see him each year and do a blood draw. And, with a family history of prostate cancer, I get the MOOOOOON RIVER treatment once a year to be safe. Also, it keeps me current on vaccines - last visit I did my shingles shot. I wouldn't have done that without that check-up on my own.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Yep.
My doctor doesn't do digital prostate exams and just goes on the PSA result. Kind of curious about whether that's normal. It definitely makes the visit less socially awkward. (My bloodwork has always been fine, so aside from my dad having had prostate cancer, there's no special reason why I should be considered at-risk.)
My doctor doesn't do digital prostate exams and just goes on the PSA result. Kind of curious about whether that's normal. It definitely makes the visit less socially awkward. (My bloodwork has always been fine, so aside from my dad having had prostate cancer, there's no special reason why I should be considered at-risk.)
TripleThreat
Footballguy
don't but need to.
Doug B
Footballguy
I understand that's a quite new thing (like within the last decade or so). Might want to @ one of the MedicalGuys for more background.
General Malaise
Poop Lord
I think my doctor just likes me likes me.
nirad3
Footballguy
This is my answer as well. Got one at the end of June. I know he's gonna tell me it's time for the colonoscopy. :(
FatMax
Member
This right here. I'm been on blood pressure meds for 15 years. Thankfully nothing else yet. (knocking furiously on wood)
Snotbubbles
Footballguy
My work pays me to get an annual check-up. Each year for the past 5 years, I get bloodwork done and then have my primary doctor go over the results. My first year the doctor wanted to put my on Metformin for my cholesterol numbers. I declined. I began a diet and exercise program and each year my cholesterol levels got better. I am proud to say that this year my cholesterol levels were finally in normal ranges.
B Maverick
Footballguy
I did for awhile, then I didn't and now I need to start again.....
ChiefD
Footballguy
They aren't that big of a deal. Very important for us old guys to do it, plus the process cleans you out.
With the working out you are doing it will make you feel better when your system is cleaned up.
titusbramble
Footballguy
I can't remember the last time I went to a doctor. Must be at least fifteen years ago
Peak
Footballguy
Tried to when I turned 40, then COVID hit and I haven't been back since. Turned 47 this year and got a message through MyChart from the doctor, which I assumed was to resume scheduling a regular checkup/physical. Turns out it was to schedule a colonoscopy due to my age and medical history. So I got that going for me....
General Malaise
Poop Lord
Like ChiefD said, the colonoscopy isn't that bad. You can minimize the effects of the prep and the process itself I don't even remember. It was like an hour long nap with no idea what happened to me and at the end, I got a package of cheese crackers and a ginger ale!
nirad3
Footballguy
I do like ginger ale.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Lucky. All I got was a wink from the doctor.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Plus a pleasant high when you wake up.
Zow
Footballguy
Mine as something similar but the doctor is at least kind enough to cut me off when I started asking about anything that isn't just the basic physical. It's annoying, but at least I can gauge whether the value to the answer to the question I am about to ask is worth a couple hundred bucks or whatever.
Zow
Footballguy
Up until a couple of years ago I never went to the doctor but have gone the last two years and plan to keep going yearly. I just hit 40 and have had friends/acquaintances my age start dying already so it's kind of spooked me into going more.
Message both the last two years is: you're totally healthy but you need to clean up the diet. Fun.
Message both the last two years is: you're totally healthy but you need to clean up the diet. Fun.
