Has anyone been to a functional medicine practitioner vs dermatologist?

[Caroline]

But, I'm not totally convinced either that some alternatives aren't better than the medicines we're prescribed. I am very leery of people (scammers) promising results that may bring them money and the person seeking them no relief. The problem is that their isn't the regulation involved in a lot of people offering alternatives. Sometimes it takes someone willing to step outside the box to find other solutions. I'm not that person, but I can understand why some people want to seek opinions other than their doctors.

Very true Kat.
I have the tendency to step out of the box very regularly. You can call that stubbornness, but I don't mind. Perhaps there is more under the sun than we can see.
I've also been to a practice of bio resonance. Very interesting, even paid for by the insurance, all kinds of certifications and of qualifications.
It was a beautiful practice, luxury overall.
I told them my problems, and the guy I was dealing with, no doctor but a bio resonance specialist, understood and was convinced it was no problem at all solving it.
He told me to lie down on a couch, where there was some simple electronic equipment, and I had to hold two large copper spheres in my hands that were connected with wires to that equipment. That was all. I had to lie there for about twenty minutes and the equipment sometimes did "beep" or "click click".
This treatment should, according to him, give quite quickly results. I have been there a few times, and of course it did totally nothing.
To my opinion this was one of the many legal scams that are available. And you did not even have to go into weird places.