Personal experience here.Dr. L doesn't even see most of the patients
there. I almost always saw Dr. D., or Dr. S.
The treatments are pretty much like what I've
read everyone else has done as far as the IV.
Dr. S. never even looked for co-infections
that I'm aware of, But Dr. D. did. She
Seems to be really up to date on everything
and is pretty agressive as far as insurance
will allow. From what I gathered, If you
wanted orals, they would give them if you
asked, but they didn't suggest them.
Next... they require Monthly PCR's for a
year post-treatment. They must all come back
neg. for you to get the all-clear. (I never
made it farther than about 3-4 months clean.
I am however suspicious of the money aspect
there. As I was awaiting an insurance
approval for yet another 56+ day run of IVs
one of the workers mentioned that it would
be a good thing. The reason surprised me!
They stated that it would be helpful to
THEM because they needed the money.
Don't get me wrong... I did have a pos.
test result. ??however, they seem to
ONLY use MDL for PCR results and I did see
Dr. L. having something to do with that
particular lab itself. I saw it on the MDL
site. Anyone with more info on this??
Finally, Last try on IV, rejected so
they tried orals after I requested them.
They made me too sick to continue treatment
so I left a message with the office. NEVER
got a response. Basically, I told the Dr.
I had stopped the therapy. They knew I was
still sick...and now was off therapy...and
they left me hanging. They are very
difficult to deal with as far as sharing
records with ANY other MD's. (It's like
pulling teeth for the other MD's!!)
Another kicker...last time I was to start
treatment, they stapled a credit application
to the back of the therapy instructions!!
Well, There's the "straight dope" on that.
At least all I know of it. SSL, but I
wanted anyone interested to have a little
"look before leaping".