I'd like to put in my 2 cents to hopefully reassure everyone that this doctor isn't a quack. I'm the one who introduced Karen and her dh to this doctor, so I've been going to him longer. He is definitely radical, in that he refuses to accept the contemporary notions in the medical world that there's a prescription for every problem, and if we just treat the symptoms we're good. Karen has tried that approach and ended up getting prescriptions to treat the symptoms created by other prescriptions, and never really getting better. Getting well for Karen means being able to go to church on Sunday, being able to join her quilting buddies for a road trip to the LQS, being able to go to the grocery store. The kinds of things that most of us take for granted.
With the help of this doctor, I've regained a lot of the energy and vitality I was missing in my "middle age". I take no prescriptions at the age of, dare I say it, 49. I have no physical complaints unless I decide to hoe the entire garden in one afternoon, or shovel snow for 2 hours (!). Though diagnosed with osteopenia, I have not needed to go on the prescription the contemporary doctor tried to put me on (and which was, in the small print, NOT supposed to be used by pre- menopausal women which I definitely am) and Dr K has been able to identify what is causing my calcium to pile up in my bloodstream rather than go into my bones and is treating it without prescriptions.
The difference is, and what is causing all this suffering that she is going through, is that our Karen has, fundamentally, a very frail constitution whereas I have a fundamentally strong one. She's always been what you might call sickly. When she was a developing fetus, she shared her mother's womb with a non-cancerous tumor that grew as she grew, not only stealing nutrients that belonged to her, but affecting the chemical balance in the amniotic fluid in ways no one can know or quantify. This doctor is digging down to the molecular, or root causes, for her problems. This isn't easy, nor is it quick - but it's worth it.
Please, pray for Karen, cheer her on, encourage her. But rest assured, and don't worry - she's in the best hands money can buy.
Musicmaker