My Doctor Doesn’t Believe in CIRS
It’s unfortunate that when so many of us are finally coming into a root cause that explains our suffering, the medical providers we have turned to for care “poo poo” the idea of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). This happens for a myriad of reasons. Most of them have never been educated on CIRS and certainly not in their medical training. They often do a quick, cursory search on CIRS and read some nonsense that doesn’t pay credence to the immense evidence based of peer-reviewed, reproducible literature. In addition, CIRS affects numerous bodily systems…think headaches (neurology), abdominal pain (gastroenterology), shortness of breath (pulmonology), and the list goes on and on. This is confusing to a provider that is used to patients “playing by the book” with easily classified symptoms. Add to this compassion fatigue due to the entry of private equity into healthcare. Providers no longer dictate care but instead business people push doctors to see more and more patients to turn larger profits. Unfortunately, for many providers, there is shame in not knowing…in not having the answers. They are more comfortable dismissing the diagnosis than taking a deep and earnest dive into the literature. I believe very few people enter a career in medicine with the goal of invalidating patients, and yet the vice of all of the above compounding pressures and insecurities can drive a physician to become distanced from the healer they initially aimed to be. We invite you to learn more about how to handle the experience of an invalidating medical provider who doesn’t believe in CIRS, because the sad truth is that it is almost inevitable. And we remind you to celebrate the providers and people in your life that remain curious and open-hearted.
You can read about CIRS Shoemaker Protocol starting from the beginning at Step #1 here.
You can read more about Dr. Sparks’s journey as a medical provider hellbent on healing her own erythromelalgia here.
Read about Dr. Sparks’s healing her chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) and how that connects to EM here.
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