I can't believe Dr. Seicean has 1 star reviews! She saved my life after a decade of endless specialists, treatments, therapies, meds failed. She showed personal interest in me, my history, gave validation and encouragement, was persistent, patient, kind, and kept me going.
Another reviewer said she thinks she knows everything..she DOES! That's why I'm so grateful for her! She doesn't just talk to you for 10 minutes and throw SSNIs-SSRIs at you. She took time to understand my complex medical and personal (chronic trauma) history, evaluates my care as a whole -- periodically ordering labs/blood work to identify possible issues, impact of medications, my health trends.
She's so clinically thorough, has knowledge in SO many areas (look up her bio!), is absolutely brilliant and TRULY shows a personal interest in my care.
Maybe I'm a scientific/clinical challenge for her, I don't know and I don't care. She dug deep and spent a lot of time to pull me out of mental and… physical pain.
10 yrs ago I started experiencing debilitating fatigue, then odd medical ailments, increasingly worse and culminating with me being in 24/7 mental and physical pain, diagnosed with cachexia (wasting away), no known cause. I was a hard working, energetic Type A my entire life. I was only in my 40s Nothing helped, actually makes me so sad when I look back at years of medical records & journals.
Then for some reason — I broke communication w/everyone in my life years ago — an old friend literally broke into my house and put off starting her new dream job in a different state for a month to stay with me, spoon feed me broth, try to manage my medical care. She connected me with a wonderful trauma psychologist who gave me hope. From there I somehow landed with what I call my "trauma team", specialists who seemed to understand what was wrong with me (the body keeps the score…), showed genuine care, concern and persistence, and they all communicate with each other. I am SO blessed to have found Dr. Seicean.
Even when we knew what was wrong, we still couldn’t "fix" it. But no one gave up, all kept encouraging me. Dr. Seicean dug so deep and drew from her extensive medical and scientific knowledge to just keep trying different things, patiently working with me and encouraging me to keep trying. She knew I had a brain somewhere in there and that I appreciated and needed to know the science, the reasons, why we were trying things — so I more than appreciated her insight.
But a couple years ago I was finally done, even with this caring, brilliant team trying everything, nothing could fix the mental & physical damage that took decades to accrue, not physically possible, at least in any reasonable timeframe and I was sick of non-stop trying, coudn't bear the pain, suffering, loss of friends, family, career, LIFE any longer. And this inexplicable unrelenting 24/7 excruciating physical feeling of my head being clawed from the inside. Imagine the moment you’re pushed off a cliff, that momentary terror — 24/7 for me. Was DONE. Even opioids and things that were supposed to be euphoric did NOTHING to ease the suffering.
But Dr. Seicean in her amazing way convinced me to "just try one more thing”, new on the market…I knew it was pointless but tried it anyway. Within days the 24/7 clawing/terror diminished. That was HUGE!!!!
Then I was out of bed, had the urge to shower, and within weeks the ability to feel happiness . Even though I was still sick and everything was awful lol -- something brought me to life and let me LIVE! Still tons of mental, cognitive, physical ailments to work on but I have a second chance at life and can feel HAPPINESS!
Because Dr. Seicean KNEW something would help, despite all the damage, and she kept trying and encouraging. She still works with me closely, monitoring my health and progress, tweaking things, communicating with my other care providers, to help me get better in every way.
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