Hi MrsKlemme, I have not applied to my insurance personally. My pain specialist looked at my insurance and said thats what they will need before accepting the implant procedure. She told me that the insurance needs a 50% success rate with the nerve blocks twice before they would cover the implants. They will also do a trial for ten days with the electrodes inserted with small incisions and with the little machine on the outside of the body so they can adjust and find out how much comfort it will bring me before the full implant is done. My insurance is Advantek. It is a school district one in California. I hope that helps. I get so angry at insurance companies. To me if a doc says you should have it .. they should cover it! End of story! Chloe Post edited by: cmiller, at: 06/26/2009 11:08 AM Post edited by: cmiller, at: 06/26/2009 11:09 AM I am not a medical professional. I sufferered Occipital Neuralgia and had right and left occipital nerve release surgery in 2010.
Before surgery I would throw up almost daily from the severe dizziness and had severe light and sound sensitivity. I stayed in bed, curled up in the fetal position wishing I had the courage to kill myself. If I didn't take a cocktail of antiseizure, opiates and muscle relaxers I suffered hundreds of electric shock type pains per day in my head and had a constant migraine type pain 24/7 from july 2008. I lay grieving for my life that once was the friends who once were and the void in my future.
Right surgery 100% relief; left surgery, scarring grabbed a crown nerve and I had surgery again to relieve that june 2011. Surgery really helped but was left with daily migraines triggered by certain sound pitches making living in this noisy world very difficult |
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