Sam Donta Case Summary

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Multiple. S The patient is a 58-year-old female who tells me she has been having multiple symptoms and worries whether she might be having some tick borne illness or perhaps Bartonella, which she had in 2006. She tells me at that time, she was diagnosed with Lyme, Bartonella, ehrlichiosis, babesiosa. She was treat treated for all four of these. She states she was seeing Dr. Sam Donta in Boston at the time, but apparently he moved to Falmouth, Massachusetts. She has not seen him. I have no records from this time. She was on antibiotics for about a year, at that time. She also saw Dr. Caprio, as well as Dr. [____] and in fact she did try to make contact with Dr. [____] about a month ago, but he was charging quite a large fee and her …show more content…

The patient's current symptoms include joint pain, ringing in her ears, loss of taste and smell that is been ongoing for two months, loose bowel movements that occur every morning, but not in the afternoon, she has bilateral rib soreness that comes and goes, she has noticed hair loss, she has random tooth pain in different parts of her mouth and has seen her dentist, who told her there is nothing wrong with her teeth or gums. She also has aversion to smells, she gets headaches, which mostly are frontal that she rates as a five out of 10 in severity and occurs about one time per week. Tylenol will take them away. She has also been having weight loss, noticing that her clothes are not fitting well. She has been taking an herbal supplement that includes things like cats claw, red root, St. John's wort, etc. She is overdue for her colonoscopy, given that she has a family history of colon cancer. Her last

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