I highly recommend Dr. Fein. In my opinion she is an outstanding diagnostician and clinician, and you will be hard-pressed to find someone with more experience. If it were not for Dr Fein I don’t where I would be now. As a result of her care and treatment my 20-plus year “auto-immune” disease is in remission and quite possible cured. I only wish I had come under her care much sooner as I am healthier today than I have been in a very long time.
Prior to seeing Dr. Fein my treatment consisted of a combination of anti-inflammatories, immune-suppressing and immune modifying drugs (including intra-articular steroids) and narcotics, for whole body arthralgia, migraines, joint pain with effusion, back and neck pain, etc. I suffered from chronic knee effusions, which were aspirated and injected multiple times per year, and I had two surgeries on my spine, which in hindsight may have been unnecessary. The combination of disease and inappropriate treatment left me weak and very debilitated, and I was beginning to develop neurological symptoms. I was at my lowest when a colleague told me about Dr Fein, Thank You God🙏
At the very first appointment Dr. Fein immediately recognized my symptoms were consistent with chronic and persistent Lyme disease, even though my Lyme test results were equivocal and/or negative. In addition to Lyme disease, Dr Fein suspected I had a bartonella infection (something no other physician had even mentioned) for which I tested positive. I was treated with antibiotics for bartonella and borrelia (Lyme disease); the treatment was very difficult because I had been sick and immunosuppressed for so long. There were times I wanted to quit, however Dr. Fein coached me through the "side effects" (the inflammatory reactions precipitated by treatment) until I started to feel the benefits. This is just one of many things that sets her apart. Other physicians lacking her experience and insight might tell you to stop treatment, assuming they treat you at all.
Dr. Fein is knowledgeable and always on top of the latest treatments and science, and she has the courage to challenge commonly accepted but ineffective treatment paradigms and fight for her patients. I want to add that prior to treating with Dr. Fein I had seen at least 10 different doctors, probably more, including infectious disease specialists and rheumatologists at university hospitals and medical schools, where I was alternatively diagnosed with PLDS (post Lyme disease syndrome) and a form of rheumatoid arthritis.
