Seattle Area Physician

During my 3rd onset, I was treated by Dr. Kim Iller while she was working with Dr. Marty Ross, MD [Healing Arts Partnership]. She is friendly towards the bacteria-dysfunctional model for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She has since left Healing Arts and set up Functional Medicine NW.

8010 15th Avenue NW
Suite D
Seattle WA 98117
Phone: (206) 317 – 4257
Fax: (206) 518-9225
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drkim@functionalmednw.com

Before prescribing antibiotics,using the tests that are available (but are not ideal) we tested for Chronic Lyme (which are usually positive for CFS). This provided justification for the use of antibiotics.

I find her to be caring, open minded and willing to enter dialogs on treatment approaches with patients.

Also, she bills Medical Plans (at least some of them).

Claire 10:33 am on January 19, 2016

Hello,

First of all, I wanted to say : thank you for such an amazing website. I found it while researching lactic acidosis as my urine tests showed I had extremely elevated levels of D-Lactate, and since then I have been hooked to it. I have just been reading it constantly for the past few days. What an incredible sum of info! I have been diagnosed with Lyme disease last year and given a very long course of macrolide antibiotic, but since then, I have had terrible brain symptoms (feeling drunk all the time, encephalopathy type symptoms etc) linked to food consumption, and I have been able to pin them down to Enterococcus and Streptococcus overgrowth (both resistant to Macrolides family). My situation is quite terrible as, since cutting off all carbs and sugars about 1,5 months ago, the feeling of drunkenness was replaced by a feeling of brain poisoning with altered consciousness and a complete change in my body/perspiration smell. Apparently, the same bacteria can also produce ammonia when digesting protein ( http://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2180-13-6), and ammonia is very toxic too. So now I am stuck between feeling drunk (acidosis symptom) and feeling poisonned. My question to you would be: do you know of any MDs in Europe that agree with that conception of CFS and would be ready to treat it with the kind of protocols that you describe (antibiotics in rotation + probiotics)? If not, I am considering going all the way to Seatlle from France to see your ND!
Thank you so much for any potential help, I feel quite desperate.
C
Claire 10:55 am on January 19, 2016

I am resending this as I got my own email adress wrong (brain…). First of all, I wanted to say thank you for such an amazing website, I stumbled upon it while researching D-lactate acidosis (as my urine show really elevated levels of D-Lactate), and since then I haven’t been able to stop reading it. Such an amazing sum of info! So here is my question: do you know by any chance of any MDs in Europe ready to take on this microflora view of CFS? I know this is what is causing me problems, but my Lyme doctors (what I have been treated for) do not understand the concept. If not, then I am considering going all the way to Seattle to visit your ND!

Thank you very much for any help you could provide!
- lassesen 3:05 pm on January 19, 2016
  
  I believe Dr. Philip Bottero, MD, is still practicing in France.
  
  I have left a note on Cecile Jadin’s facebook page for his contact information.
  https://www.facebook.com/cecile.jadin
  - Claire 7:49 pm on January 19, 2016
    
    Ah thanks, that’s great ! Do you think he’d be open to the microflora interpretation of the problem? My personal experience makes me think this is essential indeed, and your articles about it have totally convinced me that it is really so.
Elizabeth Milo 6:48 am on March 12, 2016

I see Dr. Iller, too, but she has surprisingly never suggested a stool test or a Lyme test.
- lassesen 3:10 pm on March 12, 2016
  
  I found that she tends to work “old-school medicine”, where it was an art — you listen to the patients symptoms and your own experience with similar patients and proceed from there.
  
  For antibiotics prescription, she wanted (at that time) to have “scientific justification” for prescribing.
  
  As all of us do, people and skills evolve.
unpocoloco23 6:33 pm on April 25, 2016

Hello! This is Alana from the Kombucha demo. I recently bought symbioflor-2 but am deciding not to take it. It is being shipped from Germany, I was wondering if you (or anyone else) would be willing to purchase it from me? I can ship it anywhere! Thanks.
- lassesen 7:16 pm on April 25, 2016
  
  If no one speaks first when it arrives, shout and I will take it.
  
  Any reason why you decided not to try it?

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