Re: thank you for the doctor name

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Dr Whitman is with Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights (sp) NJ...close

to Newark and Watchung...I have seen him for 8 yrs...love him...he started

me on mino and on oral clindamyacin...he feels that it penetrates tissue

just as well as IV and is easier to prescribe. I find him to be brilliant

and he worked with Dr. Brown who developed the AP protocol...he knows

what he is doing..

I am doing ok...no matter what I come up with...he finds something to help

me. I just finished the book one of his SD patients wrote...A Place To Go,

Maureen ...she mentions him frequently in the book...She feels about

him the way I do. He treats his patients as partners in their battle...I

like it...He has saved my life. I still battle, but with DR Whitmans help, I

always know he pulls something out of his bag to help me! (I have

Scleroderma (SD) and tested positive for RA...I do NOT have Mixed Connective

Tissue Disease..or MCTD...I have Scleroderma and RA...both tests are

positive...but in order to be diagnosed with MCTD, one would need to be

tested for the RNP antibody...which I have...and mine is negative.

Therefore, I have SD and RA...Only if the RNP antibody tests positive...then

at that point, I would be said to have MCTD...That antibody is necessary for

the diagnosis of MCTD. Hope this helps.

Debbie

Good luck.

thank you for the doctor name

Debbie,

Hi and thanks. Where is he in NJ? Does he start off with clindamycin iv?

How long have you

had RA and how are you doing?