Dr. Amy Nett: This varies completely. We have some people who come and they’re really sick. Maybe they have something like chronic inflammatory response syndrome, and those are my patients who most often follow up with me, like, once every week or once every two to three weeks just to check in, see how things are going, what we can adjust or modify. I get to know those patients really well because I’m talking to them pretty frequently, and I have some patients who have been doing that for six to eight months right now. People who are kind of moderately healthy or moderately sick—however you want to look at that—if they have dysbiosis or something like that, where we’re doing an antimicrobial protocol, I want to say a lot of those patients follow up on the order of maybe every eight to ten weeks. And every once in a while, we have patients who come, they do the case review, and I think I’ve had one or two patients that do the case review and for whatever reason they don’t follow up again. Either they get busy with life, or I’ve had a couple of patients who have become pregnant and then just need to put treatment on hold for a while, or maybe they feel like we’re not the right fit for them, which happens.
Yeah, it varies a lot. When I’m treating patients, I like to see them about every eight to ten weeks if we’re doing an actual treatment protocol, just so we can make sure the supplements are still working and make sure we don’t need to tweak things and that they’re still responding appropriately. I’m sure you have this because I think you’re practicing already. Some patients need the extra support, and either they just have the comfort from talking to you or they are actually having issues that come up, and some patients just resonate with you more than others and want that frequency of contact. Other people are pretty comfortable flying solo. They can tolerate the mild bumps in the road with treatment and don’t need the same support. It’s sometimes interesting to see, I think, and it’s one of my favorite parts of the practice, sort of that more personal aspect of it.