Functional medicine

I have Crohn's disease. My first gastrointestinal today me I could do nothing to make things better but take expensive immune suppressing drugs. I found a holistic doctor similar to functional doctor. He did a complete health history then blood tests and then coached me to health.

This is a link for finding functional doctors
https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner

xiomarah, Bless you. I totally understand you. There is a shortage of Rheumatologists in my area. I have been to two already and get conflicting diagnoses. I have been referred back and forth from Endocrinologist to Rheumatologist and still have no definite answer.

I have Fibromyalgia. Hashimoto's Thyroditis can resemble Fibromyalgia and often they go hand in hand. I have Hashimoto's & Hyperthyroidism. All of these cause pain.

I have Osteoarthritis all over and having the other 3 mentioned above, seems to have worsened my pain. My arthritis did not start until I was diagnosed with both Thyroid issues. COVID did a number on me pain wise as well.

I encourage you to go to an Endocrinologist and get a full panel done of your Thyroid and see if that is the culprit. Most primary doctors will not do a full Thyroid panel.

Praying for you. Please keep me posted. Blessings.....

Hi,
Have you been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease ?
Migraines and anxiety are not the sole domain of autoimmue diseases they are generally resulting from us dealing with the disease. Pain can be from several causes seen or unseen and can be very difficult to diagnose with a long drawn out frustrating journey to find the culprit. There is no cure for autoimmue diseases only treatment of the symptoms. There are many causes of pain, after a decade of testing and sampling I finally recieved a diagnosis. Unfortunately Dr's go for the simplest first then hit you with the psychological determination when they can't prove any cause, until some smart Dr recognises the symptoms and makes the correct diagnosis.
Cheers

@xiomarah76 In addition to Denise's recommendation for a functional medicine specialist, you can also try Forum Health https://forumhealth.com/ which is a nationwide group of functional and environmental medicine practitioners, although not in every state. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine also has a provider search. https://www.aaemonline.org/

A searchable list of functional medicine doctors is at ifm.org

@beebe there another link for finding integrated practitioners

Denise

Jennifer, Thanks for the links, I will check them out:)

Oldretiredguy,
Thanks for the link, I will check it out and hopefully get lucky:)

Denise, when you said you were coached to health, was it mostly life-style and food changes?

Yes it was almost all food. This doctors approach is to identify deficiencies allergies and toxins and teaches what to eat to correct these issues. And he monitors for change