Maybe you’re tired all the time, your digestion has been off for months, or your weight and sleep have changed and nobody can tell you why. You’ve had the appointments and the blood work, and you were told everything looks normal. But you know you don’t feel normal.
A lot of the time, what’s missing is time. The average primary care visit lasts about 18 minutes, which is enough to deal with the problem in front of you but rarely enough to figure out what’s causing it. That’s why our functional medicine evaluation gives you two full hours with me, over two visits.
At the first visit we sit down for 75 minutes and go through your health history, your symptoms, and how you want to feel again. I want to hear about the things you haven’t had time to bring up anywhere else, because they’re often part of the picture.
We draw your blood right here in the office. Our Comprehensive Panel goes well beyond a typical annual checkup. It includes a full thyroid panel, hormones, blood sugar, inflammation markers, iron, cholesterol, and vitamin D and B12. I read your results against the standard lab ranges and against functional ranges, which are narrower. A result can sit inside the normal range and still be the reason you feel the way you do.
How a result gets read
Lab flag: none. Outside the functional range.
- Flagged low or high by the lab
- Standard reference range: the lab calls it normal
- Functional range: the values linked with feeling well
- Your result, flagged normal
At the second visit we go through your results together, and I walk you through a plan built around them. You get it in writing, with changes to diet and lifestyle, supplements, and prescriptions when they’re needed. I’ll explain why each piece is there and how to fit it into your life.
Then we keep track. At your follow-ups, about every six weeks, we recheck your symptoms and repeat the labs that matter, so you can see what’s changing and we can adjust the plan along the way. We work alongside your primary care provider, not in place of them.
Here’s what it costs, also on our pricing page. Anything beyond this is quoted before we do it.
Catherine Seidle, APRN
Owner and provider, Healing Advanced Solutions
