{"id":31241,"date":"2023-12-18T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/?p=31241"},"modified":"2023-12-19T04:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:26:53","slug":"comprehensive-care-for-long-covid-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/18\/comprehensive-care-for-long-covid-n","title":{"rendered":"I Have So Many Symptoms and Have Seen So Many Specialists!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I knew exactly where this conversation with new patient, Mary, was headed (for me). In fact, when I read through my associate Brett Eaton\u2019s<\/a> intake notes, Brett herself had made Mary\u2019s diagnosis during her first visit to WholeHealth Chicago. She was seeing me for \u2018confirmation\u2019 and to discuss treatment. But equally adept diagnosticians are any of the WholeHealth Chicago team: Samantha<\/a>, Mark<\/a>, Dr. Samsami<\/a>, Jordan<\/a>, Wendy<\/a>, Dr. Halland<\/a>, Dr. Agrawal<\/a>, Dr. Scott<\/a>, Dr. Lazell<\/a>, Dr. Musso<\/a>, Vicki<\/a>, Dr. Crosbie<\/a> in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey, Dr. E., aren\u2019t you getting a bit too full of yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I\u2019d agree with you, except ironically, Mary herself had made her own diagnosis and couldn\u2019t get any of the specialists to listen to her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One big difference between \u201cthem\u201d (conventionally trained specialists) and \u201cus\u201d (holistically \u2018whole person oriented\u2019) is that \u201cwe listen harder”. <\/strong>I went to medical school in London for a semester (yes, it was that<\/strong> great!) and a valuable lesson I learned from a professor who held all the tests and scans that patients were being inundated with was this: \u201cIf you just listen hard enough and long enough, then your patient will tell you her diagnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary was trying to do just that. Only nobody was listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary, 45 years old, has always been reasonably well until two years ago (2021); she starts feeling irregularity of her heartbeat; she tells her primary care doc who refers her to a cardiologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having excellent insurance, she gets the best evaluation money can buy but nothing is found. \u201cYour heart is fine. Yes, it is beating irregularly but it\u2019s working well. Come back in six months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She tells him, \u201cI am having these weird electrical shocks down my arms and also terrible heartburn. I\u2019ve never had heartburn. I\u2019m tired and I can\u2019t think straight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh, jeez!”, he says (or some such expression of empathy), \u201cbut those aren\u2019t my fields. Let my nurse set you up with a neurologist, a gastroenterologist, and a psychiatrist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You discover these three appointments will occur four months in the future, be cancelled and rescheduled but ultimately result in scans, scopings, more bloods tests, and no answers. Since your joints are really beginning to hurt<\/strong> you schedule with a rheumatologist who orders more blood tests drawing more blood than you thought you had. The results are unrevealing. You ask if you could have \u201clong COVID\u201d; he asks \u201cDid you have COVID?\u201d. You answer that you don\u2019t think you did, but you might have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh, you\u2019d know if you had COVID. Nope, this isn\u2019t long COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, since you\u2019re getting no better, you schedule an appointment and wait three months for an appointment in the same medical center\u2019s long COVID Clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After your visit, you realize the \u201cclinic\u201d has been created to gather information about patients who might have long COVID. They tell you that you \u2018probably\u201d have long COVID but since there are no FDA approved treatments, just eat healthfully and get plenty of rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, click to this article from Nature magazine<\/a>, listing the symptoms of long COVID. I want you to do this to understand that every group of symptoms will get to do a different specialist which is exactly what happened to poor Mary.<\/strong> Moreover, despite electronic medical records, the specialists don\u2019t communicate with each other. The term for this is \u2018information silos\u2019 and makes healthcare (as Mary will be more than happy to tell you) \u201cvery inefficient”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO HOW ARE THE WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO PRACTITIONERS DIFFERENT?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Two significant ways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ONE: We pay meticulous attention to the whole person. Mary really was healthy her entire life until two years ago when her body was thrown into a Cuisinart of symptoms. What was happening at the time? COVID, of course. So our practitioners began asking about all the other possible manifestations of long COVID (electric shocks, joint pain, brain fog, fatigue, etc., etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did she remember having COVID? Of course not! Many people had really mild cases manifesting as a bad cold or just didn\u2019t want to bother getting tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TWO: We will recommend treatments (nutritional supplements, herbs, infusions) that are actually being used worldwide but aren\u2019t going through FDA testing because they\u2019re in the public domain. Why aren\u2019t these offered at the long COVID clinics? Because they\u2019re not FDA approved and every treatment has to pass a hospital\u2019s Pharmacy Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because severe cases of long Covid (especially the memory symptoms) can cause long term damage, we suggest patients with severe symptoms get to work. Here\u2019s a recent article<\/a> on brain damage from COVID. And for our Long COVID Treatment Plan, click here<\/a> and schedule a visit<\/a> with one of our excellent practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be well,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Edelberg, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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