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Good News is that she is probably one of the most experienced Lyme practitioners in the Seattle area - having treated over 7000 patients when she worked back east. Since she set up her practice in Seattle this winter she has taken on over 70 patients, including me. She also had Lyme Disease herself and was on antibiotics for 4 years etc. and now is more or less symptom free. Nothing like direct experience!!!
She is cautious, comprehensive, thorough, yet aware that in my case, time is of the utmost importance in terms of getting rid of this before it gets the best of me. She is a good scientist. In addition to the standard pharmacological approach (antibiotics etc.) she works with lots of things for collagenous, immune and digestion support, based on her naturopathic training. I have high hopes that this will work.
Only drawback is that its all out of pocket, thanks to the AMA's standard line and she would rather help patients heal than fuss with insurance companies. I don't blame her. After spending over $20K plus insurance working with doctors who did nothing for me over the last two years until I found Dr. M, her medicine may in the long run be cheaper!
She is also an ILADS member, tests Lyme and its coinfections through IGENEX and FRY, as well as local labs such as Quest for the normal blood work stuff to see things like liver enzymes, EBV, etc. Quest will draw the samples, as she doesn't do any of that in house and one has to track down one's own supplements (in my case, I can order these through my regular naturopath who refered me to Dr. M. Also get my blood drawn at my regular naturopath)
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Casey:
That is really great information. Thank you.
If you think of anything else, and want to send it PM, that is fine too.
Appreciate your feedback.
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