First off let me start off by saying the people people here are amazing and are extremely polite. This review isn't directed towards anyone.
So I get a upper respiratory infection about twice a year, once in the Spring and once in the Fall. As Spring hit I started feeling it coming. I was getting my cough, congestion, and constant clearing of the throat.
So I go in to get ahead of it because based if I let it go it will get very bad. I get checked and I'm diagnosed with GERD. Completed shocked because I have never been diagnosed with that before I go ahead get the medication and go to the store to get GERD friendly food.
Several days go by and I'm getting worse, I'm getting hot/cold flashes, I'm coughing ALOT more to the point it's uncontrollable, so I go back to Medwise. This time they tell me it's allergies, so they give me a list of OTC medication to get and spend roughly $150 on OTC medication. Go home and let it take it's course. Once again several days later I'm feeling even worse, now I can't hear out of my left ear and have severe pressure in it, I can't smell, I'm coughing up green mucus all day long and my voice is extremely hoarse due to my lungs having fluid in them. This time they decide to take X-rays and determine I now have pneumonia. Now I'm pissed because the first time I came in I tried to tell them I had an upper respiratory infection but they misdiagnose me for GERD. It took 3 revisits before they finally got it right except it only took me getting severely sick. I finally get proper medication and I'm able to overcome it about a week later (2 week of being sick) however I'm still fighting this ear infection so they instruct me to go see an ear, throat, and nose doctor.
At the same time my wife starts to get sick and guess where she goes, Medwise. What do they tell her? That it's just allergies and that pneumonia isn't contagious. Well folks I'm here to tell you it is because she got it too and we work from home so we rarely leave the house.
Fast forward to a month and a half later I'm feeling mostly like myself again however I still have fluid behind my inner ear and the ear doctor has mentioned about having to put a tube in my ear drum to drain it out. I have NEVER had an ear infection in my life and I firmly believe had Medwise properly diagnosed me I wouldn't have had to go through all of this and spend the hundreds of dollars on medication that did absolutely nothing for me. Thankfully I have health insurance so they covered the majority of my visit fees minus the copay. That's another thing yes I had to pay each time for another diagnosis because they misdiagnosed me. Absolutely ridiculous, and what's even better is after I told my ear doctor where I was misdiagnosed so many times their response was they were not surprised that any time someone needs to go to urgent care they will always refer them to a different urgent care.
All of this all because they wouldn't listen. I may not be a doctor but I do know my body. read more