Doctors

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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:31:38 -0800, acoftil gnn4ever@...> spoke

thusly:

>I've come to the conclusion that I might need to go outside my HMO for a

>consultation about a diagnosis and advice as to whether or not to proceed with

>surgery.

Thank you for all the responses I received. I now have FIVE potential nsgs to

see--all at my own HMO! Thank you all so much!

The number for Dr. Boggan on the doctor web page is wrong. It should be

1-. Do I need to email someone to get this changed?

When I called Dr. Boggan's office they referred me to FOUR Kaiser doctors. All

4 of those doctors used to work with Dr. Boggan. One member here also

recommended a nsg at Kaiser--Sacramento.

The doctors are: Dr. Mark Hawk, Dr. Alan , Dr. Conrad Pappas, and Dr.

Kamran Sahrakar. I also have a recommendation from the ACM list from a person

who had surgery done by Dr. Melicharek. All of these nsgs are at Kaiser,

North Sacramento, Morse Avenue.

HTH!

Damn it Jim! I'm the moderator, not the doctor!

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In a message dated 1/19/2006 1:39:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,

ezcmezwent@... writes:

My thought is this one reason why not all doctors are

the same....and a good reason why " House " is a

fascinating TV show.

AWESOME show. Won't miss it. I like the concept of telling it like it is,

and speaking your mind.

DebbieL

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Hi everyone i've never posted here before but read the posts every

day. I have had fibro since i was about 12 (i'm 27 now) but wasn't

diagnosed with it until about 2 years ago. My PCP is currently

treating me but says that I have no options left and I'm pretty much

out of luck, in those two years I have been to a D.O. a Neurologist, a

Rhumatologist(sp?), and an anesthesiologist at a pain clinic and have

been put on pretty much every drug that is said to help according to

my current dr. Anyway I guess i was wondering if anyone lived in the

DFW area and knows of a really good dr, there has to be something that

will help i can't live like this, as a single mom of two little boys i

have to be able to function.

thanks for listening

sarah

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

There is a Fibro and Fatigue Center in Dallas. I've been going to the one in

Fort Worth for a few months. Have you heard of them? They are supposed to have

like a 94% success rate in improving our lives. It has not helped me yet, but I

thought I would mention it because maybe I'm in the 6% and it would help you.

They do NOT take insurance......

Jill

Doctors

Hi everyone i've never posted here before but read the posts every

day. I have had fibro since i was about 12 (i'm 27 now) but wasn't

diagnosed with it until about 2 years ago. My PCP is currently

treating me but says that I have no options left and I'm pretty much

out of luck, in those two years I have been to a D.O. a Neurologist, a

Rhumatologist(sp?), and an anesthesiologist at a pain clinic and have

been put on pretty much every drug that is said to help according to

my current dr. Anyway I guess i was wondering if anyone lived in the

DFW area and knows of a really good dr, there has to be something that

will help i can't live like this, as a single mom of two little boys i

have to be able to function.

thanks for listening

sarah

[Guest guest]

Jill, when they opened a center in Pittsburgh, I decided I would see

if they could really help me. I walked out of the first appointment

after writing a rather large check for the B12 shot, all of the

supplements and also the compounded meds. From there, I went to a

nearby lab to have what seemed like a 100 vials of blood drawn. I

also went to our pharmacy and got the prescription drugs that were

also part of the " program " they put me on! When it was time for my

second appointment, I could barely drive myself to the office for the

appointment. I saw the nurse and then the doc for a few minutes, got

another B12 shot and then went into the room where they hooked me up

to an IV drip for what seemed forever!!! Now, there was one

advantage to all of that --- my husband and I were scheduled to fly

to San to see his mother and stepfather. As far as I am

concerned, that woman can trigger a full blown flare in 4 hours! So,

I cancelled my flight. There was no way I could have spent a week or

however long we were to have been there. My only regret about not

going was that they went to the Mexican Restauant they had discovered

a few years ago that makes a to die for stuffed pepper dish. (they

even tried to see if there was a way for to bring one home for

me!)

The second appointment was my last as I did not see any improvment in

how I felt after my second appointment and all of those bottles of

pills, the IV, etc., etc.

Not long after that, I was web surfing and discovered that a doctor I

had seen previously had returned to practising medicine and was much

closer than my PC doc. So, I made an appointment, took the shopping

bag of supplements, the results of all of the blood work done at

quest and she looked it over, said, " well, this won't hurt, take it,

but no you don't need to be taking all of the rest of that! " But

even more interesting was that the Doc at the center had been a year

or two behind her at the big medical school in Philadelphia and she

had no good words for him.

One thing I should mention is that they won't do the paper work for

insurance at that center, but you get all of the documents you need

so that you can file with your insurance company and depending on the

benefits, they may or may not reimburse you for some of the costs.

But that was the second time I had heard of someone who could cure me

of this vile condition. I was temping for a company back in 2001 and

the lady who was out on medical leave came back and worked a few days

after she recovered but they had me stay for another short period of

time. She told me about a pharmacist that she went to and said I

should go see him! It was another joke. He and someone else had

done this study that included about 50 people and they had used

supplements, several meds, oh, and I got a print out of what all

areas I had problems with. Well, another chunk of change down the

drain!! None of the stuff had any effect on me and once again, I was

sicker than I had been before I went in.

After 30 plus years of this getting gradually worse and going from

short periods of time (first time it lasted perhaps 6 weeks), now I

have a few days sometimes that I am not in pain. I don't have the

levels of tiredness or the degree of pain very often (and by that, I

mean what I experienced after trying the two other solutions), so I

have become very leery of any group that says they can solve your

problems with fibro. I will say I don't have the energy I used to

have, but that may just be that I am so anxious for June 30th to

arrive and we move from Pittsburgh back home to our new house when my

husband retires.

Mostly, these days, I am on my antidepressants -- one is really not

supposed to be for that purpose, it is intended to help me sleep,

another one is also not supposed to be for psych reasons but as a

muscle relaxant. But I take 2 antidepressants in the am, one in the

pm, Valium as needed, and two blood pressure meds. And I just

checked my blood pressure and those meds are doing a very good job.

Perhaps other people do find help at the Fibro and Fatigue centers

but I just found it not to be the thing that worked for me.

Hi ,

>

> There is a Fibro and Fatigue Center in Dallas. I've been going to

the one in Fort Worth for a few months. Have you heard of them?

They are supposed to have like a 94% success rate in improving our

lives. It has not helped me yet, but I thought I would mention it

because maybe I'm in the 6% and it would help you. They do NOT take

insurance......

>

> Jill

> Doctors

>

>

> Hi everyone i've never posted here before but read the posts

every

> day. I have had fibro since i was about 12 (i'm 27 now) but wasn't

> diagnosed with it until about 2 years ago. My PCP is currently

> treating me but says that I have no options left and I'm pretty

much

> out of luck, in those two years I have been to a D.O. a

Neurologist, a

> Rhumatologist(sp?), and an anesthesiologist at a pain clinic and

have

> been put on pretty much every drug that is said to help according

to

> my current dr. Anyway I guess i was wondering if anyone lived in

the

> DFW area and knows of a really good dr, there has to be something

that

> will help i can't live like this, as a single mom of two little

boys i

> have to be able to function.

>

> thanks for listening

> sarah

>

>

>

>

>

>

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Hi . So sorry to hear of the unrelentless pain. What kind of meds have

they tried???

It is so hard to have small children when we have this illness.

Hope someone can point you in the right direction to a good doctor. I am in

Lufkin Tx.

hugs,

Debra V.

nebelle138 sarahlizzybeth@...> wrote:

Hi everyone i've never posted here before but read the posts every

day. I have had fibro since i was about 12 (i'm 27 now) but wasn't

diagnosed with it until about 2 years ago. My PCP is currently

treating me but says that I have no options left and I'm pretty much

out of luck, in those two years I have been to a D.O. a Neurologist, a

Rhumatologist(sp?), and an anesthesiologist at a pain clinic and have

been put on pretty much every drug that is said to help according to

my current dr. Anyway I guess i was wondering if anyone lived in the

DFW area and knows of a really good dr, there has to be something that

will help i can't live like this, as a single mom of two little boys i

have to be able to function.

thanks for listening

sarah

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