I work with people experiencing persistent, unexplained or interconnected health problems, particularly those who have been searching for answers without finding a satisfactory explanation.
You may arrive with one major problem, or with a confusing collection of symptoms that nobody has yet joined together.
Most people don’t have one problem. They have a pattern.
I don’t look at fatigue and treat fatigue. I don’t look at poor sleep and treat sleep. I don’t look at weight gain and prescribe a weight-loss plan. I don’t look at low libido and simply treat libido.
I look at the entire picture, and I ask what connects all of these things.
That question is the whole of my method.
The symptoms people most often describe as “I just don’t feel like myself anymore.”
Sleep that looks adequate on paper but leaves you no better than when you went to bed.
A body that has stopped responding to the things that used to work for it.
One part of the picture rather than the whole of it, and rarely the only thing going on.
Digestive symptoms that have been managed for years without ever being explained.
Feeling emotionally unlike yourself, and coping with less than you used to.
Or perhaps something else entirely. You don’t need to fit neatly into a diagnostic box to deserve a proper investigation.
Often the most important symptom is simply this: I just don’t feel like myself anymore.
Adrian
Standard pathology is extremely valuable. It can identify many important medical conditions and should never be dismissed.
But a result falling within a laboratory reference range doesn’t necessarily explain why you feel the way you feel. That’s why I don’t look at one number in isolation. I look at the person behind the numbers.
The goal isn’t to prove that your tests are wrong. It’s to understand what your existing information may, and may not, explain. And where something requires medical investigation, I’ll tell you.
You don’t need to have all the answers before you book. That’s what the first consultation is for.