Did Dr. Bruce Patterson’s program work for you?

Posted by paullab @paullab, Mar 18 8:13am

Hello folks,
There are a lot of posts here from people who said they were undergoing Dr. Bruce Patterson’s program at the time they posted, but not many who say they actually finished it, whether or not it worked for them, and if it worked to improve symptoms, if the positive outcomes remained after the therapy and for how long.
If you have gone through the therapy, could you share your experience with us, regardless of whether it was positive or negative? Thank you for your help.

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I am currently going thru the qualifying process with Dr. Patterson. Will know more soon.

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Started my course of medications following my lab and virtual appointment on 16 January. Just this last week I feel like I have turned the corner with my symptoms resolving and my major symptom PEM substantially going away. The program is described as 3 to 6 months and longer than average for vaccine injured (I am). Dr Patterson has a team and I am working with a Doctor on his team. Described as 80% success rate. Does it last? That remains to be seen. I haven't attempted to file for Medicare reimbursement yet, but I have spent $1,000 for the initial lab, $450 for the second lab to measure changes, and just under $300 for my virtual appointment. I am cautiously optimistic that I am on my way back to normal although after 3-1/2 years I am not sure I remember what normal feels like!

My edit, neglected to mention the significant cost of medications post reimbursement of at least $1,500

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@arichards3

Started my course of medications following my lab and virtual appointment on 16 January. Just this last week I feel like I have turned the corner with my symptoms resolving and my major symptom PEM substantially going away. The program is described as 3 to 6 months and longer than average for vaccine injured (I am). Dr Patterson has a team and I am working with a Doctor on his team. Described as 80% success rate. Does it last? That remains to be seen. I haven't attempted to file for Medicare reimbursement yet, but I have spent $1,000 for the initial lab, $450 for the second lab to measure changes, and just under $300 for my virtual appointment. I am cautiously optimistic that I am on my way back to normal although after 3-1/2 years I am not sure I remember what normal feels like!

My edit, neglected to mention the significant cost of medications post reimbursement of at least $1,500

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Thanks so much for sharing. I’m waiting for my Treatment Protocol to start. My bloodwork is positive for all the long COVID markers.
I too have been dealing with all the Long Covid problems since 2021. Very encouraging what you are experiencing. Hopefully starting soon. Wishing you continued success!🤞

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@lizzyn

Thanks so much for sharing. I’m waiting for my Treatment Protocol to start. My bloodwork is positive for all the long COVID markers.
I too have been dealing with all the Long Covid problems since 2021. Very encouraging what you are experiencing. Hopefully starting soon. Wishing you continued success!🤞

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Will sound strange but I was actually excited to have a blood test that showed much of my blood chemistry out of normal boundaries. If you look for the right things you find them!

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@lizzyn

Thanks so much for sharing. I’m waiting for my Treatment Protocol to start. My bloodwork is positive for all the long COVID markers.
I too have been dealing with all the Long Covid problems since 2021. Very encouraging what you are experiencing. Hopefully starting soon. Wishing you continued success!🤞

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@lizzyn one of the challenges is a low histamine diet along with remembering to take the medications that help you with that 30 minutes in advance of each major meal. I ended up finding a fairly decent app on histamine containing and causing foods and drinks because there isn’t a lot of really certain science on histamines in food.

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@lizzyn

Thanks so much for sharing. I’m waiting for my Treatment Protocol to start. My bloodwork is positive for all the long COVID markers.
I too have been dealing with all the Long Covid problems since 2021. Very encouraging what you are experiencing. Hopefully starting soon. Wishing you continued success!🤞

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Can you share which blood tests you had for this?

Thank you!

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Hello,
Radiance Diagnostic is the company in Naperville Illinois.
Dr. Patterson. Many years of research and the website has lots of info.
™ IncellDx-14 Cytokine Panel and it was very helpful. It can all be done by mail and video.

Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions.

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@athenaatkins

Can you share which blood tests you had for this?

Thank you!

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I’m interested in that too

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I am hoping to dust off this thread. Anyone else who had success with the program?
I am all for listening to these doctors and reading their work, all of them make a ton of sense. But then I cannot tell what may possibly work, before both spending a ton of money and subjecting my battered body to more medications. There are some posts around here about Dr. Patterson's method not helping people at all, and some people feeling so much worse that they gave up on the program.

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@paullab

I am hoping to dust off this thread. Anyone else who had success with the program?
I am all for listening to these doctors and reading their work, all of them make a ton of sense. But then I cannot tell what may possibly work, before both spending a ton of money and subjecting my battered body to more medications. There are some posts around here about Dr. Patterson's method not helping people at all, and some people feeling so much worse that they gave up on the program.

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@paullab I am obviously bought in being 2 months into an approximately 6 month journey with Dr. Patterson's team, but would ask all to consider these points. Do any of us want to live the rest of our lives with the symptoms we experience? (of course not) Is there a 'big medicine' solution on the horizon? (not that any of us have heard of).

Fortunately there are groups of medical professionals around the world that have working theories and are not 'snake oil salesman' and who genuinely want to help. And in this particular case, social media is actually helpful.

My personal story is that I am vaccine injured beginning November 2021 and have been through my 2 local hospital networks, and Mayo Rochester and every test thrown at me shows I am 'normal', and nothing is wrong. I learned some things along the way that have helped me mitigate, but not a cure and a cure is what I am after. There are lots of amazing medical professionals that just want to help, and I met some of those along my journey.

I want to lead a healthy life for a 68 year old guy. So, I turned to Dr. YouTube and Dr. Google not unlike millions of others and found 2 working theories (likely there are more theories and groups) being careful to avoid the snake oil salesman and found Dr. Patterson and Dr. Vaughn, both very impressive, one advocating curing vascular inflammation and the other advocating getting the oxygen from your blood into the tissues. Both demonstrate they can measure the root causes of our symptoms. Both approaches 'scratched my itch' talking root causes and credible research. I just happened to choose Dr. Patterson's approach and team.

Dr. Patterson's team cites 80% success rate and in his methodology it is stated that some cant tolerate the medications used. Could that account for those that as you say "not helping", "feeling much worse", those folks could be the unfortunate 20%. Dr. Patterson himself has an amazing resume of education, practical experience with AIDS research and is a renowned virologist. When he started talking using AI to cull through and seize the power of all the data, I was sold . . .

Enough said, and I will certainly keep everyone posted on my progress which to this point is good. 4 months or so to go! I wish you all the very best success in your personal journeys!!!

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