Dr Claude Krusz-Dallas/Grapevine

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My dd had an interesting appt with an unusual neurologist this week. She’s had a brain injury, has seizures, and also has reduced pituitary functioning as a result, yet we’ve not found a SINGLE neurologist in the DFW area who has experience with brain injury enough to be helpful. I’ve been hunting for 9 years. I found a couple location which we could travel to, and that is our next step. We’ve pieced together medical support mainly through her primary and Dr Launius for thyroid levels.

Somehow I got the name of Dr Claude Krusz of Dallas/Grapevine, who is a neurologist who thinks way outside the box, but works with traditional medicine. He is aware that migraines, headaches, generalized pain, mood shifts can be more than a simple neurology issue. We saw him and he asked about our background with endo testing, specifically thyroid. I told him we’ve gotten dd in a good thyroid range after a few years and lots of bloodwork. He was disbelieving and told me that there is not a single decent endo in Dallas that he knows of, and went on to gripe about how they do the wrong tests, and that we’d probably never had a FREE T3 and a FREE t4 run at the same time. I laughed and told him we’d had horrid experiences with endo’s, too, but we had worked with Dr Launius. He brightened up and said, “Well, great then, I know , he does a good job!” He mentioned that he himself runs these labs regularly because they are so frequently involved with these pain/migraine/seizure issues. He’ll also do free cortisol, growth hormone, etc.

I did not ask what he thinks about being suppressed, and I don’t need him to monitor dd’s thyroid, since that’s taken care of, so I wasn’t pursuing the details regarding thyroid like I might otherwise. On his own, he was asking about our background with this. I don’t know how he treats these other issues exactly. I do know he has a lot of very satisfied patients who sometimes fly in from all parts just to see him.

I’m reluctant to write him up in the database since I really don’t know his position on some important points. He did offer that he prefers to rx T4 and T3 independently, so he can control those levels better in his patients. So, probably he does not do bioidentical thyroid. He mentioned that there is a specific time of day to draw for free cortisol, but I did not ask him about saliva testing, again, since I didn’t think I was interviewing for endo stuff.

He is quite a thinker, though, and is very creative. He’s the first neurologist I’ve actually appreciated in all our years of hunting. A neuro who seems well versed in endo. Interesting and unusual. If he seems of interest, probably his staff can be helpful in answering questions. His longterm office person’s name is Ann, and she mentioned that she fields most of the questions for him.