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Healthcare with no money.

  • 02-01-2015 1:54am
    #1
    LegacyUser
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    Hey all i'll try and make this as coherent as possible. Okay so i pretty much had a chain of awful experiences early 2014. I feel into a major depression. I haven't been officially diagnosed because i can't afford to go see a doctor but I have researched extensively the symptoms and signs and i check all the boxes all of them. I'm not going to go into my symptoms exactly but needless to say they are fairly extreme. Anyway recently I've started feeling dizzy a lot and every time i turn my head to the right my ears start ringing i lose my vision and my brain feels really odd. When i straighten my head again my vision slowly returns but remains blurry for a while and a strange sound remains in my ears for a minute or so. It sounds like when you listen to a shell to hear the sea or snow on a TV set. I hope i have described this well enough but the sensations are bizarre.

    So i reckon there must be something going on but i can't afford a doctor as I lost my job due to company difficulties. I'm sick to death of the whole depression thing its an absolute nightmare. I don't have a medical card but i really would like to try and address both issues. So finally my question is there any way to receive medical advice or treatment in Ireland outside of having a medical card if you have no money or am I just doomed?


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  • #2
    Pawwed Rig
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    Contact your public health nurse via social welfare. They will give you advice


  • #3
    RiseToMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭RiseToMe


    With having lost your job you'll be entitled to a medical card as you have no income.

    Unless there's other income in your household? In which case it may be a GP visit card that you could get.


  • #4
    DoomZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 166 ✭✭DoomZ


    Have you tried for a gp card or medical card. You should if money is that bad.
    Also as regards depression etc, look for some community based services some do it very cheap for people on low or no wages.
    Also maybe start a journal to get the issues out...
    Best of luck.


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