Did you have testing to know what you actually needed to treat? KDM will test to see the status of your gut flora and your immune system, and which pathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi) you have. He then uses directed treatment for what is actually going on, rather than randomly throwing treatments at the situation without knowing specifically what's needed. I think that's the point. You can't compare extensive testing and specific, focused treatment to taking general OTC treatments not based on your specific condition. What KDM does is nothing like what you've already done. But you don't have to believe that. If you're not comfortable going to see KDM, don't go.
I'm not quite sure why you're assuming im just throwing things blindly at the problem, or taking over the counter treatments based on a few of my forum posts?
Yes i did have testing, thousands of pounds worth through breakspear and dr myhill, virus scanning, bacteria, white cells, allergies, immune reactions, breath tests, biopsies etc. etc. The main problem that showed was an ameoba which i succesfully treated with multiple courses of antibiotics and probably as a results I have an overgrowth in mostly sulfur reducing bacteria, with hugley reduced beneficial bacteria populations and have used various labs to confirm this (mainly streptococous, pretevoella, and desulfovibro) which goes hand in hand with my intollerence of sulfur and thiols, and negative reaction to supplements like NAC. To tackle this I have used rifaximin which has a somewhat wider range of antibiotic action and works well against strep, and bile salts which are effective against the pretevoella which has quite a high antibiotic resistant rate, along with supplementing non histamine producing probiotics like mutaflor, lactobacilus rhamnosus, and the bifidobacteria family. I'm tackling biofilm too using interfase just because the imbalance has been there so long, and the viridians species streptococous are known for making biofilms. I have candida IGG IGA and IGM antibodies for which I am using nystatin and occasionally more systemic antifungals, although i don't use these often for my livers sake. Using LDN to help with the pain, and brain fog which seems to be helping. Because I have been fighting gut issues for the better part of the past two years and have not made as much progress as I'd like i'm looking more into a stealth pathogen or bacteria like Lyme as being the cause, but for that i really need a doctor who understands this like KDM which is why im looking into him. I've had the western blot for lymes which turned out negative but know that can be notoriously inaccurate. I feel i need to say this again, I am not critising KDM, I'm not trying to say his methods are questionable, nor am I saying I don't believe that he is good at what he does, i just want to hear other peoples opinions.
I'm planning to go and see him, but what i really wanted was peoples personal positive accounts of visits with him so I can feel better about saving that much money for so long
