When Your Body Reminds You Of Your Age – My Virtual Doctor Visit with Health Plan USA.

I am in partnership with HealthPlan USA and they have provided me with compensation for this campaign. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

Recently, one of my Facebook friends made a post about things that suddenly start happen to your body when you’re close to or as soon as you turn 40. I remember scanning the comments & nodding as her friends lamented about their ailments that seemingly came out of nowhere.

As I rapidly approach my 40th birthday next year, I can definitely relate. For the past few months, it seems that my body was trying to show my age (prematurely) and had taken on a life of its own. One day you’re going about your business and then the next your body reminds you that you’re not necessarily as young as you think. 🙂

I even mentioned some of my random aches to my husband, and he jokingly said, “girl, that’s what happens when you’re *almost* forty”. Of course, I rolled my eyes and laughed.

Then one morning I woke up & I couldn’t turn my neck.  At first, I was a bit scared because I went to bed fine and woke up with limited neck mobility. Eventually, the pain went away so I figured it was the regular stiffness that comes with an ill-positioned pillow or something similar.

But a few days later the same thing happened.

I mentioned in my last post that I had the opportunity to test out HealthPlan USA discount membership program and as promised I’m back to share my experience with you.

READ ALSO: When Life Comes At You Fast…There’s Health Plan USA. 

While Health Plan USA is not insurance, it does offer discounts on health, dental, vision & prescription costs. One of the other perks of the service is the TeleHealth/virtual doctor visits (from a board-certified physician) via the MDLive App.

Did I mention that you get everything mentioned for under $20 ($16.48 to be exact) per household, per month?

Although my neck pains were a bit sporadic, I was taking no chances so I took the opportunity to utilize the virtual doctor visit option just to make sure it wasn’t something I should be concerned about.

Just like the sign-up process for HealthPlan USA, accessing the App, requesting the appointment and being seen by a doctor was super quick and painless. Within 10 minutes of requesting an appointment (which can be done via phone or video), I *saw* the doctor, discussed my symptoms and got a plan of action without having to wait in a doctor’s office or pay a co-pay for the service.

It turns out that my pain falls in the “this is pretty common” as you get older, category. My doctor was super friendly and suggested a few options for me to look into. For starters, I’m going to get a Massage as well as take more breaks from my laptop because it is possible that I could be developing a case of “tech neck” from sitting at the computer for long periods.

As a precaution, she suggested seeing a Chiropractor to make sure that nothing is out of whack.

I absolutely love that this service is available, accessible and most of all affordable because I know that health-related costs are an issue for millions of Americans.

As a matter of fact, HealthPlan USA founder Asafu Thomas found himself in that predicament after losing his job (and health insurance) during the great recession of 2011.