Posted by Jon Barnes on February 6, 2001, at 1:14:28
In reply to Re: Dr. Martin Jesen, posted by JohnL on February 5, 2001, at 19:17:42
JohnL,
A few questions for you concerning your visit to Dr. Jensen as I am considering paying him a visit myself. I'm assuming that you actually visited his office.
1. How long ago did you visit his office?
2. How far in advance did you have have to book your appointment (i.e., is there a one year waiting period or is he fairly accessible)?
3. Did he send you home with nine Rx's from your visit?
4. How did you go about following up with him re: meds he prescribed (i.e., this one worked so do this or that). By conf call directly with you or your pdoc?
Any other info you could pass along would be appreciated. I do have his book but I must confess that I don't fully comprehend all that's in it.
JB
> The previous post has Dr Jensen's address.
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> I have firsthand experience in being one of his patients. He is awesome, that's all I can say. Excellent bedside manners, excellent expertise in drugs and brain chemistry. He seems to have an uncanny gift in choosing which meds to try and to know what the results of each mean. He approaches a psychiatric illness kind of like a detective searching for clues.
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> He did not directly choose the specific drugs that ended up helping me a lot, but he did lay down the roadmap that led to those drugs. I only had one session with him. In that one session he layed out a map of 9 different drugs to try (3 in one class, 3 in another class, 3 in another class) for about one week each. This would provide clues. And it did. His system worked flawlessly, though I have to admit it was a real bummer each time I tried a new drug and didn't like it. I'm glad there were a couple in there that I like a lot. It would have taken me years to discover those drugs by conventional methods. He shortened it to about 3 months. Not bad after 10 years of getting nowhere.
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> You can pretty much get a good handle on his detective approach by reading and re-reading his book a few times. "The Successful Treatment of Brain Chemical Imbalance" is a must read in my opinion.
> John
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