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Dr. Lerner's clinic in Michigan

PaulaLB
PaulaLB
Has anyone been to this clinic? If so, what was your experience? Also, what is the approximate cost of treatment. I live in Toronto, ON and obviously don't have insurance for the states. Thanks.

http://www.treatmentcenterforcfs.com/index.html
Sunvalleygal
Sunvalleygal
I have not been to that center but I did go to Chronicity wh/ specializes in chronic fatigue syndrome. They were wonderful. I went ahead and took treatments for a full year and it was expensive but worth every penny.
It gave me half of my lfie back. I still cannot work but it got me out of the bed...
What kind of treatments do they do? Have u gone for a consultation yet?
Sunvalleygal
Sunvalleygal
What kind of supplements do they use?
Do they do meds as well as supplements?
Do they do IV infusions / liquid vitamins / gamma globulin IVs.
How extensive is their blood work?
These are all of the ???s I wld ask during the consulation.
What are their payment plans?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Not to overwhelm you, but I think this is the other place in Michigan that really helped one of my mother's neighbors. I now remember she said it was at U of M.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I wrote this whole other post about Dr. Lerner and what I gleaned from his web site and it looks like it never went through.

Anyway, here is the U of M dept.

http://www.med.umich.edu/painresearch/

And here is Dr. Lerner's site. I realized I am mostly on a 3-4 on his Energy Index Point Scale and sometimes a 2 if I overdo too much or my hormones are at a certain phase of the month. That was interesting.

I didn't see anything about payments on his FAQ link, but maybe I missed something or it's elsewhere. Would be curious to know more myself as I am traveling to MI soon to stay with my mother and one of my goals is to get a good workup at U of M. I think this is the place that one of my mother's neighbors was helped a lot. either that or it could be Dr. Lerner. But I thought it was U of M.

Here is Lerner's site.

http://www.treatmentcenterforcfs.com/energy_index_score/index.html