due to finacial issues i am going to move back to colorado in a month or two, this was the plan all along but i stayed in Ct. to be with my gram, who was very ill with cancer, she always understood i wanted to leave, but i knew she really wanted me to stay even though she never asked.
I also felt good about staying for treatment, this was when i though i could cure this thing in no time.....Ha ha ha ha
well she passed from cancer a week ago, and i just decided i have to get back to my life and buisness lyme or not. i am still sick and cant hold out anymore.her death was very hard on me and i need to get out of here.
I have been seeing doc. p in wilton and i am pleased so far with him. I have left a message but no return yet in reguards to treating me from a distance.
My symtoms have dwindled down to a handfull, and i am much better than months ago, i know there is a llmd in colorado springs, but they want full igenex testing and blah blah blah before you even see them.
i dont want to start from scratch and i like my doc and he knows my history, has anyone encountered this problem, is it possible for a dr. to treat from a distance or is this totally unrealistic.
any suggestions? thanks.....dj
Posted by SForsgren (Member # 7686) on :
If you already have an LLMD and a diagnosis, you should be able to transfer your existing tests, files to a new doctor. Many doctors will continue to do phone consults as well if they have already worked with you in person. You just have to inquire.
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
Don't think you could expect to do this indefinitely, though. It would get a doc in trouble if he did not see the patient now and then.
Not sure why this is because with most docs you get less than ten minutes which is so brief, why bother showing up in person. Seems like a good phone consult would be at least as good as the average in-person doc visit (non-Lyme). But that is the rule, so whether it makes sense or not.....
Seems like medical establishment talks out of both sides of its mouth. They do these high tech surgeries but still don't seem to have recognized the telephone as a useful instrument.
Posted by D.J. LYME (Member # 8384) on :
first off, boston i tried to p.m. you and your box was full.
i would not have a problem flying back out every few months if this was an issue, but the only good llmd in colorado who many here see, wants a complete work up with igenex prior to even seeing them for an appt.
I have tried to approach them, and mabye i should try again, but then im talking 1500 bucks or more just to be were i am at right now. doesnt make sense.
thanks for replies, i am just so tired of being scared to take my life back, i feel fearfull of leaving my confort zone of dr's someone told me on this site a while ago that the rest of my life could hang on the desicions i make right now and i full agree so i am trying to make the best blue print of attack.
Posted by David95928 (Member # 3521) on :
Is there a doctor you know in CO who is open to learning more about all of this. I think that as long as a local doctor is actually treating you, Dr. P. could provide consultation. Other LLMDs do this. I say, try to maintain the direction of Dr. P.
Posted by D.J. LYME (Member # 8384) on :
it is actually an infectious disease clinic and one of the dr's there i believe has lyme. i just figured all this out yesterday so there is much to figure out. I am just scared of the unknown, moving, starting over,but i feel that it is needed and if i can i would like to take dr.P with me. thanks for your reply....dj
Posted by viva (Member # 8183) on :
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[ 04. March 2006, 12:58 PM: Message edited by: viva ]
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
I would like to point out that Dr. Jones is currently in trouble for prescribing meds for a child he had not yet seen. Now this is a little different that your situation, but people read this board who are trying to persecute our doctors and collect information here for that purpose.
Therefore, it behooves us to keep anything like this in private messages. I would not want anyone to decide that Dr. P should be seeing his patients more frequently, or that he doesn't. Far as I can tell, just the suggestion, if not the actual practice of something is enough for the bad guys to go looking in a doctors files. What I mean is that Dr. P does do phone consults for patients he has already seen, that is common practice I believe and acceptable in other kinds of medicine. But the length of time between visits might get to be an issue the bad guys could use.
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!
Posted by viva (Member # 8183) on :
Sorry, Lou and all...my naivete is showing. Will send info via PM.