Posted 10/2/2014 2:33 PM (GMT 0)
The prices you listed, are they for every visit, or just your first? My first appointment was extremely expensive (over 1K), but 90% of that was testing. It was also a 5 hour appointment (yes, 5 hours lol). From there my appointments go down to under $200 once a month and I'm sometimes in his office for well over an hour.
No doubt that there are some dubious doctors out there capitalizing on this, but I don't think it's fair to lump all LLMD's into the money hungry business man category . A lot of these doctors put their license on the line treating us in contradiction to what the CDC says is acceptable. If you want to place blame on the high price and lack of insurance support for treating lyme, that starts well above the LLMD.
It is extremely difficult to go through this and I can certainly empathize with you. Adding in financial to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual difficulties that come with this dumb bug has been enough to make me nearly crack several times (and may finally make me crack in the near future - it wouldn't take much more). I hope you can find a good solution. Just keep researching different treatment options and looking at different LLMD's until you find the one that works for you. It's so hard to make everything work and I know how you feel right now. I hope you find a solution very soon.