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The Saddest, Loneliest Patients In America

Posted on November 13, 2016 by

Posted in Blog, Knowledge Base, L, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, S — 14 Comments ↓

Imagine this: one night, you awaken from sleep feeling itchy all over. You scratch and scratch, eventually getting back to sleep. The next day, you feel like your skin is crawling. Your hair just doesn’t feel like your hair. A few days later, you see skin lesions on different parts of your body. You go to a dermatologist who looks at the lesions and prescribes Read More

Tagged with: Bartonella, chronic Lyme disease, ILADS, Lyme disease, Morgellons disease

It’s All In Your Head—Go See A Psychiatrist

Posted on April 18, 2016 by

Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, I, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons — 4 Comments ↓

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Tagged with: Candida, chronic fatigue, chronic Lyme disease, fibro, fibromyalgia, food sensitivities, functional symptoms, gluten, gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity, gluten-free, heavy metals, hypoglycemia, leaky gut, leaky gut syndrome, Lyme disease, mold, Morgellons disease, multiple chemical sensitivities, normal lab test, parasites, psychiatric treatment, tick, yeast

“They Crawl Under My Skin and Come Out At Night”

Posted on July 6, 2015 by

Posted in Blog, Case Studies, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, T — 11 Comments ↓

Earlier this year, iconic folk singer Joni Mitchell was found unconscious in her California home and immediately hospitalized. Although she was subsequently discharged and seems to be doing well (in late June her spokesperson said she’d experienced an aneurysm), the hospitalization revealed that she’d been plagued for years with Morgellons Disease. She describes her experience with Morgellons in a 2010 LA Times interview: “I have Read More

Tagged with: Bartonella, Borrelia, Joni Mitchell, Lyme disease, Morgellons disease

Controversial Diagnosis #3: Candida Overgrowth Syndrome

Patients come to WholeHealth Chicago regularly with this common refrain: “You’re the fourth (or seventh or tenth) doctor I’ve seen. I feel terrible but am always told that my tests are normal and there’s nothing wrong with me. Recently I read about Candida overgrowth and the symptoms seem to fit me exactly. But the doctors I’ve seen all tell me there’s no such illness.” These Read More

Controversial Diagnosis #2: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

In the mid-1980s, two outbreaks of what appeared to be infectious mononucleosis appeared in the US. Unlike typical mono, which caused exhaustion for a few weeks, people with this type were left in a permanent state of fatigue, with low-grade fevers, swollen lymph glands, muscle aches, and poor focus/concentration. In some cases, the fever and lymph gland swelling subsided, but the utter exhaustion persisted. Because Read More

Controversial Diagnosis #1: Fibromyalgia

I encountered my first significant controversial diagnosis when we opened WholeHealth Chicago in the mid-1990s. The concept of combining conventional and alternative medicine was new to the Midwest and right away we began seeing patients who came to us with chronic symptoms but no solid diagnosis. One group that stood out was made up of primarily women who had longstanding and severe widespread muscle pain Read More

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The Saddest, Loneliest Patients In America

It’s All In Your Head—Go See A Psychiatrist

“They Crawl Under My Skin and Come Out At Night”

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