Also you can ask, "are you confident that you can do this?" If they aren't they will get someone that is..
that has most definitely not been our experience. At all. In fact, asking such a question seems to anger the ones with the needles, and it makes the experience worse. My MIL was in the hospital, and every single nurse/phlebologist (phlebotomist? whichever) they sent in stabbed her 4 times each. After saying that they were the best in the hospital, they were the expert, they were who she was waiting for. She was a mass of bruises on her arms and the backs of her hands. They finally called in the doctor (who was otherwise incomprehensible, hostile, and useless) who was able to do it in one painless try. A few days later we all requested that it be put in her ankle, for a variety of very good reasons, and after going through channel after channel and getting permission after permission to do it, we went through the problems again. And finally, after her ankles were bruised and MIL had tears running down her face, they again got the doctor in, who did it in one.
And that's just one experience we've had.
OP, I am sad I didn't read your post when you first made it. For me, having tonsils out was a horrible mistake, and I was the one who made it. Used to get sick in my throat, now I get sick in my lungs. One is more painful, but the other is far scarier. So I ask you to really watch out for how she gets sick. After all, the strep pain and redness was the tonsils doing their job, keeping the strep contained...now there's nothing to keep it contained. So be careful.
Beyond that, if it hadn't been going on SO long, I would have said TEETH to you. Droopy eyes, fever, flushed cheeks, lazing around while feeling basically fine AND being angry and teary...that is how my son teethed as a baby, and it's what happens currently, now that he's getting all 4 first permanent molars in at once AND is losing 2 or 3 teeth allllll at the same time.
We found homeopathy to be incredibly helpful when he was teething the "first" time around, and the very same remedy that helped the most then is helping now as well!
I would think that since the only answer you've gotten from western medicine is to take OUT part of her immune system (and remember, I was convinced to do that to myself too, at 20 or 21, I've been there definitely), it's time to move beyond their scope.
If DS were experiencing things without it being obviously teeth, I would be in to a Naturopath who had heavy knowledge of Homeopathy (actually at this point in my life I'd just find a Homeopath) and I would absolutely be taking him to a chiropractor, and probably someone who uses acupressure (probably not acupuncture right now).
All of those specialties are based on *helping* the immune system normalize. Not on taking away from it. Or, as has been going on with some of my friends' kids it seems, on lowering it with steroids, etc. But on helping the communication within the body, helping find balance where there is obviously imbalance. etc etc etc.
That's what I would do. That is what I DO do.
I wish you guys luck, and hope she can find some true health soon!
