Looking after health costs a lot.

For a long long time I hadn't been writing anything. My lame excuse could be being busy, which wasn't true. However, I had been sick, very very sick.

Especially since last year I started feeling the familiar foreboding of having a seizure. It didn't happen, but I was consistently having those nasty migraines and dizziness. My energy level hit the rock bottom, and on one of those sick days I couldn't even get out of my bed. As a result my sick leaves were mounting up and of course my bosses weren't too happy.

The side effect from my medication were causing nausea, water retention among many other things that were making me feel ill.

Late last year I made many attempts to see a specialist doctor, however they were all busy and I was told that the waiting time would be nearly 3 months. If you live in Australia, you should be familiar with this bullshit.
General practitioner aka GP, especially bulk bill ones are only good for issuing prescriptions or medical certificates. If you really think you are think, you'll have to pay to get your body properly checked, because bulk bill GPs can't point out the problem you have by just hearing you speak about the symptoms. They don't take time to listen to you. Usually you are stuck feeling nothing's solved.
If you get injured and have to take some time off work, bulk bill doctors want absolutely nothing to do with work cover. It's safer to avoid responsibility, right?

Australian medical system isn't very kind to people will any serious ailments. It takes so long before being able to see a specialist. You can see one of them straight away only if something drastic happens to you, and more often than not, your illness would be so advanced and sometimes it could even be life threatening.

My situation was the same. I hadn't had a seizure yet, hence my condition was not serious enough to be seen "urgent" from their point of view.
Well, it was URGENT from my point of view. If I hadn't done anything by now I would probably have had a grand-mal seizure anytime soon.

That was when I decided to see an acupuncturist. It took me over a month before I found the right acupuncturist, but my immune system is working a lot better, my energy level's almost normal and I stopped having the twitches and ominous migraines. Plus my back injury doesn't bother me that much anymore.

From my experience, traditional Chinese acupuncture isn't for me. I have tried cupping for my back problem. There are two types of cupping; traditional cupping and mobile cupping with oil. For me the latter worked heaps better.
The one I have been seeing is an Australian practitioner and she is very good at controlling the amount of pressure she uses during the cupping session.

Still, it is extremely inconvenient having to wait so long to see a specialist. There are times I have to see one of them because the holistic approach alone isn't enough and since GP doesn't make any professional decision for me, I have to seek for a professional opinion every time I feel the medications or treatments are not working for me.

On top of all this, the fee for one consultation cost around 300 dollars, even after medicare rebate it still costs about 180 dollars if my memory is right.
With medicines, doctor visits, acupuncture sessions, etc the money I spend in one year costs a fortune.
Private health insurance is such a scam and you have to pay like 50 dollars a week and the insurance company won't give you the option of unlimited coverage for "acupuncture" for example. The claim limit is often a few hundred dollars a year for each different treatments; optical, dental, chiropractic, remedial massage, etc. and you can't claim any more after that. Probably you'll end up spending more if you are WITH private health insurance.

I can't do hard exercise but just do gentle exercise like yoga and walking. Fortunately my ab muscle is pretty strong so I can easily do about 50 plus sit ups at a time (not overdoing it is a key to pursuing with exercise).

Yes. It hurts having to spend so much for keeping my health under control but at least I can answer "pretty good" instead of "not too bad" most time someone ask me how I am.