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Hello, my name is Jeff, and I need to get my fiance in to see an LLMD as soon as possible.
We are located in Western Michigan, around Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids area.
Her situation is almost definitely life-long lyme, as her mother remembers being bit by a tick and having the rash 2 years before she gave birth to Serena - my fiance, who is now 22 years old.
Her mother has had medical problems ever since, and just recently went through her 3rd TMJ jaw replacement surgery. Her doctors thought she might have lyme last year when he asked her, but then they went and gave her a diagnosis of Lupus.
Serena has had leg pain and other problems, like ADD and stuff her whole life and never could the doctors figure out what it was.
We met more than a year ago, and she was on her own in the world with no insurance and had not seen doctors in years and was managing her symptoms by taking adderall that she was prescribed from a young age, and she was taking pain pills like Ultram and Vicodin to manage the pain.
I have seen her without the pain medication and she is basically incapable of doing anything and cries and cries in pain.
Her mother is in denial that she probably has lyme also, and recently her pain in her abdomen got really bad and we had to go to the Emergency room. They did a sonogram and found that she had a full-blown kidney infection, and an enlarged liver.
She has seen another doctor who said to try and get an emergency MRI scan because this doctor thinks she has Multiple Sclerosis.
I know better from all the research I have done, and from her case history, and from the symptoms that I have seen in her - ranging from all the joint pain and arthritic problems, to the neurological problems.
We are trying alternative methods, like taking Samento and various other natural anti-biotics and immune-system helpers. But we really need to get her on some kind of insurance or at least to see a real LLMD to make the right kind of assessment of her situation.
Please help us find a doctor in the Michigan area. She is at the end of her rope and I know that she has so much potential and has had a horrible experience with having this her whole life.
She is sick of being told that she is a hypochodriac and that the pain is all in her head, or because she went out on her own in the world and takes un-prescribed pain medication that she is just a drug addict and the horrible symptoms
are just withdrawals, or a bad person for not taking care of herself and everything and I know she can live a long healthy life if we just start finding the right professional help to go along with our alternative treatments.
Please help. Thank you.
-Concerned future husband, who might have lyme also, but my fiance is the reason I am posting.
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