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MKnight's avatar

Here’s a true story (that I’ll get around to telling as I write out my kids’s stories) - my oldest son was in a bad psychiatric meltdown. A few years ago. He has autism and PANDAS - so in our moment of crisis, as we had exhausted the limits of our regular doctors and they just wanted to drug the crap out of him with psych meds, I reached out to our integrative doctor in desperation. He basically said, hang with me here, and this is gonna sound weird, but let’s do a parasite medication. He prescribed a round of Alinia, which my insurance fought me on because it’s stupidly expensive in the US (I have since easily ordered it from overseas), but within days, that medication pulled him out of a meltdown so severe, our only option was possibly psych hospitalization. People have a hard time grasping that what saved him from heavy psych meds was parasite protocols.

As my father-in-law, who was a microbiologist and hospital lab technician his whole life once told me, “we literally know nothing. Nothing.”

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Gary’S's avatar

The best health advice I ever received from a doctor (when I needed a physical exam as part of a permanent residency application) was “Stay away from the medical system.”

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