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Which healthcare would you choose?
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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I came down with flu symptoms this week and went to the local urgent care. Waited an hour to be seen, they did a rapid flu and covid swab and it came back negative. They told me that the flu strain going around right now doesn't test positive for a few days and that it's probably the flu given all of the symptoms. They told me that I am young and healthy enough so I should just take Tylenol and drink fluids and ride it out. All in all it took 2 hours and there was a $100 co-pay with my insurance that I pay out the ass for. No tamiflu script. This medical system is trash. Every time I get sick my wife urges me to go to urgent care and I'm like "no, they are completely unhelpful and it costs too much money"
I would be much more willing to go if it didn't cost so much and take so long.
One of these days something is actually going to be wrong, and my distrust for the medical system is going to land me in the hospital for something that was treatable.
Why would you go to urgent care for the flu? Unless you had a dangerously high fever or something, is that not just a waste of resources and cause of longer wait times...?
You might be mixing up urgent care with emergency care. Urgent care is a walk-in for sicknesses etc. If I tried to make an appointment with my primary physician, it's like 2 months out, minimum. Another awful part of our current system.
No, I understand that. But if you don't have any symptoms aside from "having the flu", they're just going to give you Tylenol and send you home. It's a waste of hospital resources, unless, like I said, you have extraneous circumstances.
Oh, I was hoping for a tamiflu prescription. I was hanging out with my family last Saturday, and my brother-in-law came down with symptoms on Sunday. He went to urgent care on Monday, similarly tested negative, but was given a tamiflu script. The script helped him kick it in 2 days. I came down with symptoms on Tuesday and went to urgent care hoping for the same thing, but got nothing. Now I'm on day 6 of being sick but today is the first time I didn't wake up in a pool of sweat, so that's good.
Ibhave two very young children and I wanted to reduce my chances of spreading it to them. One of them is safe so far, but the other, is down for the count. Having to take care of a toddler with the flu while also down with the Flu was something I was trying to avoid. It's been a tough week.
if the symptoms are so intense you could not treat it with otc, it can happen. like with covid, the sore throat i had was so severe i tried seeing a physician for it, but i dint want to risk infecting others.
Unless you had a dangerously high fever or something
did ever get retested?, flu symptoms come on hard and fast, covid sometimes take a while, if not milder.
My daughter tested positive for Flu A a couple days later. So I'm assuming that's what everybody has.
that make sense, a couple people around where i work is sick with"flu" right now.