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[bmom]

I am getting tired of fumbling around on my own without guidance. I am thinking of taking my son to a DAN doctor, but I just dont know if I am at that point. I have not pinned down his problem, and I am worried about them trying to give him too much. Who has gone this route and do you think it is only beneficial?

[Andy]

I am getting tired of fumbling around on my own without guidance. I am thinking of taking my son to a DAN doctor, but I just dont know if I am at that point. I have not pinned down his problem, and I am worried about them trying to give him too much. Who has gone this route and do you think it is only beneficial?

 

 

What state do you live in, maybe I can offer a few names that I heard praise about. As for DAN doctors they are very expensive and a lot of stuff that they do now is out in the open for people to be able to do themselves. Such as ordering supplements, some chelation agents, tests that the DAN doctors use themselves.

[faith]

Great point, Andy.

You may just need the DAN doc to guide you on testing and what supplements. I keep mine around because of the B12 shots, but he is not a key player in my son's plan right now. However, yes, I needed some guidance and a starting point, for I wanted to have some testing, but we have not gone all the way with him, we wound up doing the Igg and metal testing with our Naturopath. If you decide to see one, at least know what you want to accomplish from him, for it will probably be hit and miss in the beginning. Not saying I don't recommend it, I definitely do, but if you are making headway without one, again, go in there with a plan, for he may just recommend the things you are already doing.

 

Faith

[kim]

bmom,

 

A couple of thoughts. A chiropractor can order tests thru Great Plains.

 

You could probably get a stool test for bacteria/fungal levels (good and bad) and fatty acids done fairly easily.

 

Claires testing thread, which I think is "pinned" now has some good info on getting blood testing ordered, which can be done in a lot of states with their (the labs) slip only. Our state would not accept it. It had to be ordered by someone in their/our system, even thou I was paying out of pocket. The labs would not do the draw that was needed.

 

The Dr. that you mentioned having an appt. with is very highly regarded from my understanding but I do think for autoimmune issues, you may end up with Actos

recommendation as another family here did? Maybe she will pop in and confirm that i'm not confusing an issue. ((((Michelle))))

 

I guess a lot of this depends on how much time you're willing to track down the results and how comfortable you are acting on the test results, without a physician.

With my guys, we had a lot of luck with Bonnie's vitamins, i wasn't afraid of omega's, comfortable with digestive enzymes etc. With my youngest son, and limited diet, there were some things like B12 (we started with a mixed, then went to a sublingual methyl B12) that were pretty obvious to me, that he would be lacking.

 

It's a difficult decision how far to take these things bmom.

 

I wanted to add again, when I said (on another thread if you read that) some of these Dr.s aren't as informed as you would think, I was mainly talking about the ones that sort of dabble in alternatives. Maybe have one test like a stool test, that they have found beneficial info from for some of their patients. There seem to be a lot of thoses out there.