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I HEARD OF A DOCOTR NAMED DR SEGAL AT ROBERT WOODS HOSPITAL ( I THINK THATS THE NAME).HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THE TOP LYMES EXPERTS IN NJ. ANYONE HEAR OF HIM OR SEEN HIM?
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Michelle M
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Hi A. Burns.
Please edit your post by clicking on the little pencil icon and change the doctor's name -- use only his last initial, i.e., Dr. "S". It's a rule around here, on account of the persecution Lyme doctors suffer, especially recently! No last names are used.
We also have a "Seeking a Doctor" board where you can post about this doc also or ask for recommendations by your particular area (though using just last initial there as well.)
Thanks and best wishes!
Michelle
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Ann-OH
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I believe the doc in question spells his name with an "i" rather than an "e". If that is so, run, don't walk, in the opposite direction as fast as possible.
This is the doctor who writes learned papers describing "pseudo Lyme disease" and denigrates Lyme patients at any chance. Testifies for Insurance companies, etc.etc.etc.
As he once said: "Lyme disease, although a problem, is not nearly as big a problem as most people think. The bigger epidemic is Lyme anxiety. (The New York Times on the Web, Wednesday, June 13, 2001)
Here is his idea of treatment:
From a paper he wrote on Lyme:
"Duration of therapy is still not fully established and may depend on disease manifestation. Anything between two and four weeks seems to work.
Some communities use four weeks because of the degree of anxiety, but two weeks seems to be more than adequate.
For people with arthritis, we typically treat for six weeks, although that is not well established.
For people with meningitis or severe carditis, we use two weeks of intravenous therapy and that would be ceftriaxone 2 grams a day or cefotaxime 3 grams twice a day. Those are the adult doses; the pediatric doses are based on weight of the child.
Those drugs for two weeks are effective in the treatment of Lyme meningitis or Lyme central nervous system disease. If somebody has not responded to oral antibiotics, or if somebody has evidence of central nervous system disease aside from meningitis, we typically treat for four weeks.
We don't know what the optimum duration is, but what we have noticed over the course of the years is that that duration does work.
Note that in patients with Lyme arthritis, and especially in patients with central nervous system Lyme disease, the time to ultimate resolution may be measured in months and even years.
So a person with cognitive dysfunction, memory and concentration difficulty, who is treated with intravenous antibiotics, is cautioned that a response may not be obvious over the course of the first couple of weeks or even months.
Physicians do interim cognitive testing in order to demonstrate to the patient that there is improvement. But it has taken 18 months in some to see a really good response when cognitive and behavioral changes have been the manifestation of Lyme disease. [end quote]
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I believe he'll tell you don't have Lyme or it's all in your head or it's Fibromyalgia or you're cured or etc etc etc. But that's just my opinion.
Worthless tests & labs, a dangerous vaccine, insurance companies refuse to pay, undertreatment the norm, all about money. MO. Posts: 281 | From CT | Registered: Oct 2005
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Just a small piece of advice from this long term lyme sufferer and a victim of this person we are speaking of.. He will most likely tell you that you do not have lyme disease, or there is no way it's still lyme disease and he will add "if you ever had it to begin with", he may tell you that you have fibro, or CFS and when all else fails he will tell you , you're under stress and or you have a mental disorder.. SO if I were you? Id run like my *** was on fire the other way... Just my $.02
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