Seeking Primary Care Dr In San Antonio (celiac Knowledgeable)

[Lady Buchanan]

Howdy.

I'm a bit new around here. This is my first posting so if I muff it, please be patient.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and am living quite successfully with gluten sensitivity. I have a wonderful Doc who started life as a Clinical Nutritionist and went on to add D.C. to the list of initials after his name. He's been the BEST in helping figure out why I was sick.

Now that I'm educated, I can see the advanced symptoms on my Mother who lives in San Antonio, Tx. I've spent the last few weeks trying to find a Primary Care Physician there that she can start with. While I have found some well-recommended names, they are not Primary Care docs---and they don't take insurance, rather a problem.

Does anyone out there know of a good Primary Care Doc in San Antonio?

Many Many Many thanks!

[penguin]

I'd try poking around www.alamoceliac.org , it's the website for the GIG in Austin, San Antonio, and Corpus Christie. I don't know if there's dr. info on there or not, but you could always call the San Antonio contact and see if they know anyone.

[floridanative]

Go to www.chickenparadise.com. The woman who owns/runs this B&B in San Antonio runs the Celiac support group there. Her name is Ann and you can e-mail her from her site. She's an angel and will be glad to help you. Good luck to your Mother. I had a heck of time gettng my own Mother dx'd in FL but I finally got it done.

[Lady Buchanan]

Gosh, you guys are great. Thank you! Interestingly, I've already chased down the avenue of talking with Ann, the support group leader there. She was an angel! And she did indeed have some names, but they were not primary care docs, unfortunately. I called the people she recommended and tried to network with them to see if they knew any primary care docs, but I came up blank. So I was hoping a general query out here would turn up someone.

And the alamoceliac.org site didn't have an area for the names of docs. I think the gluten thing is still so new to the western medicine world here in America that the docs who do know about it aren't aware that they should advertise themselves.

Best, Cindy!