Has anybody here been a patient of Dr Damien Downing? He has clinics in York and London, and is president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine. I think he works along similar lines as Dr Myhill.
If anyone has any experiences with his treatment, whether good or bad, I'd be grateful to hear about it.
I was a patient of his some years ago, but my health got worse and worse until I was bedbound and unable to travel to see him. I would be interested to know whether anyone else has made improvements with him and what his most recent treatment ideas are. I'm wondering whether to consult him again as I have so few, if any, options,
Hi Amy, I wonder if you would email me direct
Has anybody here been a patient of Dr Damien Downing? He has clinics in York and London, and is president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine. I think he works along similar lines as Dr Myhill.
If anyone has any experiences with his treatment, whether good or bad, I'd be grateful to hear about it.
I was a patient of his some years ago, but my health got worse and worse until I was bedbound and unable to travel to see him. I would be interested to know whether anyone else has made improvements with him and what his most recent treatment ideas are. I'm wondering whether to consult him again as I have so few, if any, options,
Hi Amy,
I appreciate this post was several years ago but I am hoping to connect with you. Before my health collapsed (age 28) and every vestige of operational life was lost in 2008, I was a freelance journalist writing for the UK nationals (Guardian, Times, Independent, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph) London Evening Standard and women's magazines. My speciality was integrated health, particularly nutrition.
I utilised all my health contacts and professionally honed research skills in my quest to regain my health and life. I have worked with over 85 practitioners operating in every conceivable orthodox, non-orthodox and research-field and, despite being largely housebound, have received input from practitioners on every continent bar Africa and the Poles. Almost eight years on, however, I am worse that ever, am almost entirely bed-bound with barely the energy to sit up in bed much of the day. My chronic sore throat which signalled the onset of my health collapse back in 2008, is now so severe I can no longer speak at all. The heart of my problems rest in a highly problematic, dysbiotic dysfunctional gastric system (despite having a super-healthy, clean nutrient-dense diet pre-illness) but most days I am now unable to eat 17+ hours.
My sole goal is total recovery and I am committed to being able to return to writing again in order to broaden awareness, compassion, and crucially report on anything and everything with a robust profile in terms of providing help for this cruel, multi-system illness.
I was hoping to gain help from a US doctor but she refuses to see patients not seen in person and suggested Dr Damien Downing, whose appraoch sounds disappointingly similar to reams of other approaches I have already undertaken with similar specialists. ( I too have worked with Dr Myhill, as well as a colleague of Professor de Meirleir at RED Labs in Belgium to highlight two out of scores I've liaised with.) The feed-back from this thread was not heartening and it sounds as though, being bed-bound, I may not be able to receive advice from Dr Downing anyway, but given the similar levels of immobility that I am sorry to hear you have suffered with I wondered both how you are doing, if you did return to him and whether it would be possible to make further contact. If so please email direct to
lucy.salisbury@hotmail.com
[Should anyone else see this post who is in a similar situation I would be interested to hear from you. I am not paritcuarly fluent with online forums and would appreciate if further contact could be via the email provided above] Thanks!
