Posted by JohnL on February 6, 2001, at 3:37:55
In reply to Re: Dr. Martin Jesen-Q for JohnL, posted by Jon Barnes on February 6, 2001, at 1:14:28
> JohnL,
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> 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.
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> 1. How long ago did you visit his office?
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> 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)?
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> 3. Did he send you home with nine Rx's from your visit?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> JBHi Jon,
Here are the answers to your questions:
1) My meeting with him was about a year ago. However, it was not face to face. He did a one hour phone visit with me and then faxed results to my local doctor recommendations. He required speaking with my local doc on the phone first before doing anything. And he required my blood test results before doing anything.2) I believe it was about a 4 week wait for an appointment. But often you can get in quicker if there is a cancellation. They can put your name on a list if you want to be on standby in case someone else can't make it.
3) He faxed the RX options to me and to my local doctor. He had the nine drugs broken down into 3 groups. I was to try 3 drugs from each group, for about a week each, followed by another local doc visit to prep for the next three, or to speak with Jensen again.
4) Until the nine drugs had been tried, there was little reason to speak with Dr Jensen again just yet. I could have if I wanted to, but it wasn't necessary. He had armed me and my local doc with enough instructions and ideas to keep us busy for a while. But if I had finished sampling all nine drugs and had no luck with any of them, then another phone visit would have been needed.
I just happened to find the right drugs and never needed another visit.
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