Functional Medicine and OCD- Please, please, please, do you know about this?

[Guest guest]

I have a question for you all. I have been told by my son's therapist (not his

psychiatrist) that he needs to see a functional medicine doctor (she's an M.D.

as well) and get a lot of amino acids and also antibiotic and antivirals to help

improve his depression, anxiety, and OCD. She insists that he has some sort of

infection that isn't going away in his body (like PANDAS) and that this will

help him get better. She says he's malnourished (he eats like a horse but is

very skinny and also takes vitamins and such) and she thinks that this is why

he's got all these problems.

The thing is is that insurance will not cover any of the supplements and such

and these babies are super expensive and they may not cover the antivirals but

they will cover the antibiotics. THey also barely cover office visits and

they're super expensive. 65 dollars for each 15 minute session, phone call or

email. the blood work could run us in the thousands if it's stuff the insurance

company does not feel necessary, which is perfectly possible.

Anyone ever try this route with any success? Any thoughts on this? Please, I

need some information here. I want to really have an idea if this has worked for

some people or not.

Thank you so much,