I wasn't going to review Dr. Ambrose, because I didn't see her long. I had to walk away right away…read more It's so sad to me that she could have helped me. From what I see, she has the skillset and she's respected my current herbalist. I had infectious disease and was in a level of hell I can't describe here. For ease, I will call it Lyme disease, though I dislike the term. I prefer Gu Syndrome. I had dreadful sweats and chills and a ton of pain and symptoms that are unfathomable to most. She put a bunch of acupuncture needles in and left me on my back for what seemed like an eternity. I felt so trapped, and I couldn't move. I just wanted the needles out. I get acupuncture a lot now and had been treated with acu by a chiropractor who was fresh out of school in the 1990s before Dr. Ambrose. I didn't expect to feel this horrible. In fact, I had moxibustion from the chiropractor. My point is that I was no stranger to acupuncture.
As I sat and waited for Dr. Ambrose, I wished that anyone would check in on me. I wanted to scream and had dreadful sweating with chills as I waited. I was in fight or flight. She created an adrenaline reaction. When she came back in, I told her about what I had experienced. She said, "That's what I wanted to do." Let me be clear here. I think she meant that she wanted to prompt the endocrine system to function. But I was in a bad state. The words I needed to hear were, "I'm so sorry. I had hoped to help your adrenals, and I wish I had come back in to check on you."
There was no understanding of my condition. In fact, she didn't take a thorough history, which is why she missed my diagnoses. The other things she did was to give me a homeopathic with little instruction and Mediclear, which was a detox product. The latter made me so sick. And it wasn't cheap. Waste of time and money. After her, I saw another N.D. It wasn't as bad, because the person was talented with bodywork. I can't share more about that here, but suffice to say that I felt that natural medicine had let me down. Thus, I proceeded with allopathic medicine, and it was horrible. I lost years of my life. It's hard to get treatment for a disease or diseases that no one really can see. So maddening!
Flash forward many years. I ended up in a great herbalist's office who saved my life. Choose carefully when you go to an ND or any provider. If that person doesn't work out, it's likely not the profession. It's the provider. I hope Dr. Ambrose improved, but I'd never send a patient who was struggling hard with infectious disease to her. And if I did, I'd caution them to provide a thorough history and to have a backup ready.
I feel so sad that I lost so many years of my life, because the providers I chose, who should have been capable, didn't do any better than their counterparts in the traditional allopathic field. They had a cookie-cutter approach. I'll give Dr. Ambrose that she didn't blame me. I can't say the same for some other alternative doctors and MDs. When doctors blame the patient, it's because they can't fix the problem. It's convenient to blame the patient at that time. I don't believe she ever would have blamed me, but that's just my take.
I wish all patients well, but if you have Lyme or infectious disease, you likely are going to benefit more from Dr. Heiner Fruehauf's approach. He is so kind and knowledgeable.