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I was diagnosed with Lyme disease but we didn't know what it was for a very long time.
I've had lyme
disease for about 13 years. It was
eight years before it was diagnosed.
I believe it was eight doctors over a period of a year and a half
big bills but no results. With each event,
I had excellent insurance and was referred to a specialist.
I couldn't find a doctor to help me
they basically said nothing was wrong with me.
Here at Sierra Integrative Medical Center we really draw on
all schools of medicine. The type of practice that we have here
really is meant to promote an integrative healing process.
What really makes us unique is that we really really wanna spend a lot of
time with our patients. We want to develop essentially a
partnership for healing. So time is not a limiting factor for us
so we're not restricted to a fifteen minute visit. Most of our early intakes will be two to
two and a half hours we spend with the patient and their family.
One of the big things we try to do is put a lot of TLC out there.
We want our patients to feel like they're in a partnership
working with us because you can never go wrong that way.
We're really a full service clinic. We try to take care of everybody.
By training I'm an internist, so I really really wanna look at the
minutiae of the body to help figure out what's going on from a physiologic
standpoint for my patients and help them correct for that.
Really I think the tipping point for me was when I spent time
working with the potential for treating cancer patients outside the box.
In integrative medicine the sole tenant is the patient's outcome, and we
must pursue
all avenues to get the best results for that patient. Integrative medicine
is a broad spectrum approach to the individual patient.
I started my process here
knowing this was my only hope. It was the first time
in a year and a half that I felt like there was hope.
So there were about 6 pretty rough weeks of treatment,
but it worked. It's given me so much quality of life. I can carry my daughter
again, I can ride a bike. I can, I can just like have fun.
I do credit him for saving my life because otherwise
they would have just kept sending me to specialists and getting treated for things
I didn't have.
It's showed me a whole new face
of medicine.
Here I have hope, and before I had none.