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May not be the advice you want to hear, but... you sound like you're in a country with a pretty terrible healthcare system (US? India? Ah, Brazil according to y
by swombat 12y ago
May not be the advice you want to hear, but... you sound like you're in a country with a pretty terrible healthcare system (US? India? Ah, Brazil according to your bio on your site). The first thing I'd do in your position is move to a country with a proper public health care system - probably the UK.
Do it via finding a job or any other method, but somehow do it. The startup itself doesn't matter. You write "I have a great responsability" - yes, you do, you have a great responsibility to yourself to take care of your health. In terms of order of magnitude, the responsibility to the startup is a 1000x less. Fuck the startup, health comes first. And if fixing your health requires moving to a different country and canning the startup, do it.
Thats perhaps the most important thing you should take away from this: your priorities are all screwed up. Health first, startup a very distant second.
- andyjohnson0 12y agoHormone treatment for hypothyroidism is provided free by the NHS in the UK [1]. I'm not sure about the conditions that migrants to the UK have to satisfy to qualify for non-emergency treatment though. (I am not a doctor, the following does no constitute medical advice, etc) Hypothyroidism is a life-long condition, so you need to get your medication sorted out asap. Someone close to me has this condition, so I know from their experience that determining the right dose can be difficult, even with the help of blood tests and a doctor / endocrinologist. Be cautious about trying to do this yourself, although I appreciate you may have little choice. Finally, T4 is not usually prescribed in the UK because it has limited effect. Nevertheless some people claim it helps them in combination and they often obtain it privately from Mexico. The same may be true for synthetic T3, which is the conventional treatment. If you do this then be extremely careful. Good luck. [1] http://www.thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/NHS_Information/prescription-info.html http://www.thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/NHS_Information/prescription...
- throwaway_xl5 12y agoEntitlement to UK public healthcare is, essentially, that you are a current lawful resident. If you got a work visa (and are working - you can't be in breach of visa conditions) and moved here you'd be entitled.
- DanBC 12y agoSo, English residents would normally pay a small prescription fee each month for their medication. Health is devolved - England, Scotland, Wales, and NI have slightly different systems. If you need Thyroxine for thyroid problems you will get that free each month. But you will also get all your other meds free. It's a bit of an oddity with the system. There are a couple of doctors who privately prescribe unlicensed meds. I'm not sure how they avoid regulatory trouble. But there's a community of people who claim that T4 is important and these people sometimes pay a lot of money to dubious doctors to get it.
- atroyn 12y agoIt is very easy for good developers to get a Blue Card for the European Union, the member states of which have excellent healthcare systems.