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Hi all,
Heading to SE Asia for 3 weeks (after spending a couple days on Germany), and then possibly travelling around Europe for a week or so after), in August so wanting to get travel insurance.
Only problem is that I had open shoulder surgery about 10 weeks ago (so once we're travelling it will be 15 weeks ago). I am still having physio at the moment, not certain when it finishes.
SAo, any recommendations on who to go with, who won;'t rip me off due to the above?
Also, we plan to do a bit of scuba diving, elephant riding etc, so want to make sure we have cover for those kinds of things.
As well as repatriation, personal belongings, medical cover etc.
Any help would be great.
Ta, Duane.
there's a great big thread on the moneysavingexpert.com forum about travel insurance with pre-existing medical issues
Thanks.
I'm a little confused as whether I actually have a pre-existing injury, as I have been discharged by my doctor, and hopefully will have finished my physio by the time of travel. But I have been in hospital within the past 6 months.
Guess the best option is just to ring around a few different companies and see what they say.
Try world first they do loads of pre-existing stuff - way more than physio
Guess the best option is just to ring around a few different companies and see what they say.
take anything they say with a pinch of salt. Travel insurance is widely mis-sold, in the sense that its insurance that is often sold without asking the buyer any questions whatsoever.
When all the fuse about PPI dies down I reckon the travel insurance industry will be the next to get a big shake down.
It probably won't be too bad - my GF has a pre-existing condition - an very rare autoimmune thing that appeared from nowhere, nearly killed her yet she made a miraculous recovery from (in the eyes of the consultants). She's on a couple of drugs to lessen the chance of it coming back but medical science has no idea what triggers the condition so it could come back at any time.
Extra travel insurance: £27 for the year.
It probably won't be too bad - my GF has a pre-existing condition - an very rare autoimmune thing that appeared from nowhere, nearly killed her yet she made a miraculous recovery from (in the eyes of the consultants). She's on a couple of drugs to lessen the chance of it coming back but medical science has no idea what triggers the condition so it could come back at any time.Extra travel insurance: £27 for the year.
Just out of academic curiosity, may I ask what your GF has? Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?
Pulls up chair.... this is going to be like an episode of House 🙂
Hah, House cracks me up! Me and some of my Biomed friends have drinking games based on watching House. Good times. Someone my rents new died of brain Aneurysm, she'd had REALLY REALLY foul breathe for a few days before hand. Take a guess at what I came up with? HAHAH (House content) 
Vasculitis that caused acute kidney failure... this sort of covers it:
In the mid 1970s, a group of patients was described who fit the clinical criteria for rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis but in whom no cause could be established. Many of these cases were associated with systemic signs of vascular inflammation (systemic vasculitis), but some cases were characterized only by renal disease. A distinct feature of these cases was the virtual absence of antibody deposition after immunofluorescence staining of the biopsy specimens, which led to the label pauci-immune rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. More than 80% of patients with pauci-immune rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis were subsequently found to have circulating antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs), and, thus, this form of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is now termed ANCA-associated vasculitis.
Except... she's one of the 20% that's ANCA negative... apparently.
Anyone one used NoLimits Travel Insurance before? Quote for £33 which isn't too bad.
Just rang up World First and because I fly to Germany first, before heading to Asia (and then back to Germany), they would only be able to cover me on the flights from the UK, which isn't much good.