Re: a little bit of an eye opener about dan doctors prices

[Guest guest]

It's not just DAN doctors who charge a lot. Speech, occupational and

senior ABA therapists often have bills that are even higher than DAN

doctors. Then there are craniosacral therapists, AIT and the list

goes on. We are a great market, us desperate parents with difficult

to treat kids. If anyone wants to make money off us it's not hard.

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> huge sums

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> i'm getting a bit iffy about some of the attiudes on these boards

[Guest guest]

Hi Hope,

How is Gibson doing lately? It just seems like with all his issues something

should be alleviating the problem. Did you determine if he was impacted? That

distended belly has to be coming from somewhere. Same for his appetite. On a

much smaller scale, when 's yeast starts kicking in she gets kind of like

artificially " hungry " . She really is hungry, yet it comes after meals where she

normally is fine. She starts trolling the kitchen looking for things she can

eat like an addict. It's really sad because in some ways she's pretty normal

and knows what she can have and can't, yet I see the longing in her eyes. In

fact, the other day she asked for another hamburger and I think the main reason

was to scam a bite of a tomato. (Tomato's has some funky reaction, I think it's

phenols, but I had ran out of " her " catsup so felt guilty and gave her some

tomato slices.) What are the experts telling you? Is he verbal and can he

express in words stuff to you?

Take care,

Kari

Re: a little bit of an eye opener about dan doctors prices

It's not just DAN doctors who charge a lot. Speech, occupational and

senior ABA therapists often have bills that are even higher than DAN

doctors. Then there are craniosacral therapists, AIT and the list

goes on. We are a great market, us desperate parents with difficult

to treat kids. If anyone wants to make money off us it's not hard.

> abmd/message/40702

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> huge sums

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> i'm getting a bit iffy about some of the attiudes on these boards

[Guest guest]

Well, our insurance system is forcing doctors to spend almost zero

time with patients. Any doctor who, for instance, wants to spend two

hours actually playing with your child to evaluate them, and another

two hours getting real health history information will not be covered

by insurance. Is this sort of service worth $100 an hour? I'm not

sure, but I do know that our doctor also has to pay overhead - office

space, secretarial services, computers, etc. I don't get the sense

that our particular doctor is getting rich...It is expensive, but I'm

not sure it's because doctors are greedy or taking advantage.

I'm more annoyed by our insurance system than anything else. We

insured ourselves against unanticipated risk, but it seems that when

we actually had a health problem, it was not deemed such, and

therefore, not covered!

Judy

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> huge sums

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> i'm getting a bit iffy about some of the attiudes on these boards

[Guest guest]

well in that link i gave to abmd the supplements the docotor had

advised were flawed

so you have huge sums being spend for very flawed advice and testing

that is useless.

yet i see some of these parents on these boards spending these large

sums not prepared to sort out anything for themselves, get ansy if

encourged to think outside the box or expecting any post replys to

lay it out all for them with no work on their part.

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> > huge sums

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> > i'm getting a bit iffy about some of the attiudes on these boards

[Guest guest]

I agree 100%. I was jsut telling hubby the othere day.There has to be a way

our kids could get the therapy that they need. Ot,Sp, PT, cranial therapy, ABA,

behaivor therapist.They are all so expensive.Then we have two with special

needs. We cnanot afford the expense, so our kids lose out.It is not fair!!!

Migdalia (DEE)