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ArtistDi
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Yes. I am familiar. DR. H is very knowledgeable, compassionate and has a good repoire with other pcps, etc. Dr. H is my backup for my main llmd who is in NJ and is sick himself.
Also, Dr. H takes insurance.
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I know Dr. H. For those looking for other MA doctors, e-mail me at [email protected]. Expect to tell me a little about yourself before I'm willing to give out any names. I do have her e-mail address as well.
Dr. H is a smart, sweet, compassionate doctor. She favors both antibiotic therapy, as well as supportive therapy including nutrition, exercise, spiritual, herbal and so forth.
Her fee is average, though she dose accept medicare. Expect a co-payment as she doesn't accept Masshealth. She is willing to work with other doctors, but if you're seeing two LLMD's, do not expect her to "agree" with the same plan the other doctor is using. Her words "You can't have it both ways." -- she can treat you using nutritional, herbal or various unrelated therapies, while you receive primary antibiotics from a different LLMD, but she will not go "back and forth" prescribing things to you while the other doctor does the same with medications (antibiotics).
She does not support testing too much, as her opinions are nearly always clinical diagnosis. When I tried to get her to support Igenex testing or going through Stonybrook, she said it wasn't needed. I worked hard to persuade her -- and I am quite good at that -- and she still refused.
She only wanted to use Quest, but as most of us all know, Quest is worthless for most tests related to tick-borne infection! What if I had a co-infection? What if I needed confirmation for my family? Of course all of my tests came back negative. The only thing that was useful was my HLA showed that I'm screwed and prone to chronic inflammation and post-lyme syndrome. Which I think is entirely B.S.
I improve on antibiotics, so I don't buy the HLA thing right now.
So that area she didn't pass the test. She's still worth seeing though, but I would get your testing done with someone else, or just do it yourself with your PCP and your local blood draw lab. I would in-fact support using Igenex for the Fish, and Western Blot, and other co-infections but Bartonella testing is sketchy at Igenex, and some people aren't confident about it. Fry labs however appears to be quite good in Bartonella testing.
This is all here se about the labs, so don't take it as the gospel.
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