Actual Experiences

Dr. Schaller has given us HOPE. He works endless hours to help others. Dr Schaller has a unique talent with children, unbelievable knowledge and expertise and has always provided a quick response. He is passionate about what he does and will treat your children like his own. It is such a Huge relief to finally have a physician that we can trust.

"We Were Amazed..."

Members of our family have been under the care of Dr. Schaller for over a year. On another's advice, we drove from Michigan to Florida to secure him as our doctor. We have seen many doctors of various fields over the years. We were amazed at how incredibly thorough he is. He listened to my daughter —everything she had to say. He checked her physically. He had extensive labs done. He knows more about her than all of the specialists she has seen combined.

He is an independent researcher who will not be contained by current protocols or treatment plans. He is constantly improving his OWN knowledge base and in turn, passes that knowledge on to his patients. He is driven by a desire to understand illness and his compassion for his patients.

We have witnessed tremendous improvement in my daughter, who had been sidelined by illness for many years. This is because Dr. Schaller has developed an approach to study the whole person, a map if you will, and is continually revisiting and adjusting treatment accordingly.

In many ways, even with her tick infections, my daughter is healthier now than she has ever been. When others close to her come down with illness, she stays well.

I can't say enough about Dr. Schaller. His care has brought new life and hope to our family.

Until we came under his care, I did not understand how much we had been abused by other doctors.

Thoughts From a Respected Veteran Tick-borne Infection Expert

You do not have to reply to this at all. I just want the groups to know that your books, especially the Bartonella book, are priceless and should be required reading for all of us who call ourselves Lyme [Complex] Literate.

Let me tell you that I recently spent an entire night reading your details about Bartonella's amazing manifestations, for example. And I couldn't put it down. I found every page held at least one key to some previously important but unsolved mystery from my office or home. In many instances, dermatological mysteries had been invisible in plain sight in front of me yet, they were unseen until the words and photos in your book pointed them out to me. I had been forced to scratch for answers prior to my spending precious time focused solely on your exhaustive work. It is really impressive to be able to find so many answers so readily.

Thank you in depth for the sacrifices made by you, your friends and family in order to help the rest of us to be able to see what we may have unwittingly blinded ourselves to.

We feel like we hit a home run today! We had a wonderful appointment with Dr. Schaller. He was so thorough, attentive and listened to everything my daughter had to say. I have never met such a caring doctor. Tanya has her lab work tomorrow and then we turn our car north for home. This long trip was exactly what we were so hoping for. I don't even know what to say. We are so delighted. Thank you Dr. Schaller just isn't enough.

Someone asked me about Dr. Schaller. Well he is everything we had not found in a doctor! I'm not kidding. He didn't interrupt once, didn't treat us like imbeciles, and did not ignore a single thing we said! When we talked to him- he actually looked at us! He didn't fidget, rifle through papers, look at his watch; he was present with us. My daughter has a life to look forward to instead of a life that needs managing. We could not be any happier. And again, I am so grateful that our path crossed with him.

For anyone reading these testimonials trying to determine if Dr. Schaller is the "real thing", let me assure you that he is. There is no doubt in my mind that he not only saved my life, but also my sanity. When I started seeing Dr. Schaller a year ago, I was in horrific pain having been diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome for both my hands and my feet. I had also developed arthritis in all of my major joints. Despite being on the highest doses of pain medicine available, every night was torture. In addition to the pain, I was also extremely ill with my hair falling out, gastritis attacks, dizziness, recurring fever, chills, nausea, sinus infections, lung infections. So many things were going wrong with with extreme daytime somnolence, headaches, scalp burning, loosing my hair, fevers, chills, severe gastritis, dizzy spells, nausea attacks, lung infections, rashes, swelling, inflammation, etc. The nightmare began in Nov '06 when I awakened to a small bump on my right thumb that was directly on top of the joint. The little bump got bigger and within 9 months had ravaged my body.

Despite seeing countless specialist, no-one could find out what was wrong with me. I stumbled across Dr. Schaller's website by accident as I was researching neuro-toxins. He had experience in so many divergent areas of medicine, that at first I was a little doubtful as to his authenticity. After reading one of his books, reading the testimonials and articles, and a lot of prayer and discussion with my family, I decided to make an appointment and contacted his wonderful staff. I could barely walk when I entered his office and feared that within weeks I would have to start using a wheelchair. After a 1 1/2 hour session with him, I had hope for the first time in a long time. Greater than 40 vials of blood was taken, and within 1 week, Dr. Schaller was able to explain to me why I was so sick and that I was dangerously ill. Within 2 weeks, the horrific burning pain affecting my hands and feet had almost disappeared based on his novel use of a Suboxone for therapeutic purposes together with treatment for Bartonella. Over the course of the past year, I subsequently tested positive for Erlichiosis, Lyme, Babesia microti, and Babesia WA-1 (ducani). Although I am not yet fully healed, I have come a tremendous way and have complete confidence that Dr. Schaller will heal me and that he will not give up until he does.

And I have one other thing I want anyone considering seeing Dr. Schaller to know.

With Dr. Schaller's concurrence, I attempted to visit the Emory Infectious Disease Group in Atlanta (where I live). My legs and hands had broken out with numerous ulcers and lesions the Emory Crawford Long ER MD wanted me to go to their Infectious Disease group ASAP. I submitted to them all of my test results, doctor visit information, etc. requested. After waiting three weeks to get an appointment, I was told that I needed to continue seeing Dr. Schaller. I responded back "Why? I can't believe that one of the top infectious disease groups in the Southeast is unable to treat me and I requested that the head of the department be consulted". I was told that the head of the department was the one who reviewed my file, that he is their Lyme disease expert, and that it was not that he could not treat tick borne infections. It was that upon his review of my medical file, Dr. Schaller had already utilized all of the available treatment options. He felt my best interest was to remain with Dr. Schaller as he had nothing else to offer. I admire the Emory doctor for his honesty and putting my interest first. I also appreciated having an esteemed infectious disease group validate what I already knew. Dr. Schaller is my version of a friendly "House" for those who watch the show. He still has much to offer me, unlike all the others. I will soon be starting a new set of treatments that Dr. Schaller recently devised for those who resist the routine treatments for Babesia. I don't know his actual IQ, but it has to be off the charts. We are all extremely blessed that he feels compelled to offer treatment to those of us with nowhere left to turn.

After months and months of being very sick with tick-borne illnesses, like Bartonella and Babesia, that were misdiagnosed, I learned about Dr. James Schaller's expertise in diagnosing and treating complex medical issues that no one else can figure out. He is very broad in the way he treats fatigue, "brain fog," body aches, unusual emotional struggles and other vague but serious medical problems. He does not devalue your feeling and suffering. My family and I are so grateful for Dr. Schaller's untiring dedication to helping people recover from these difficult complex medical issues. Thanks to Dr. Schaller's cutting edge research and extraordinary knowledge, I am on the path to regaining my health and resuming a joyful and productive life!

If you are fighting Babesia; you NEED this book, November 16, 2009

I have read everything there is out there about Lyme, and for those of us who suffer from Lyme and Babesia, this is the book to buy. While the book can get complicated at times, it remarkably tells us what labs we need done, how to watch them for a cure, and warns that standard dosing doesn't work (as I have many Lyme friends that have unfortunately proven this!). NOBODY else knows how to do this. Thank you Dr. Schaller!

I also suggest that if you're Lyme treatment isn't working that you get this book and his other larger book on Babesia. It is possible that you have a stealth Babesia infection. My Babesia was stealth and didn't appear until 3 months after my Lyme treatment started. This book gives tips on how to "prime" a stealth infection for a positive test. If you're not getting better you should seriously consider talking to your Lyme doctor about Babesia; and bring this book along.

As I think about you, Dr. Schaller, and all you have done for me and my family, I find myself filled with emotions and tears of appreciation.

Therefore, I want to share my reasons for these feeling of profound thanks.

Dr. Schaller has treated my family for years. My husband was ill for over seven years, and no one could figure out what was wrong with him. He had significant fatigue and a decrease in motivation and was excessively irritable and very controlling. I had lost hope for him and my marriage. Then we met you, and after 2-3 months of time, you had figured out all of the causes of my husband's troubles. I am stunned to see the degree of improvement and the hope I know have for him and our future.

It is amazing that after you diagnosed my husband, that you noticed unusual fevers with my daughter, and my own troublesome anxiety which I had told myself was just part of living with an ill spouse. What a surprise to find out we had clear troubles which could be fixed, and now I and my precious daughter are better with every passing month. I know that I have sometimes resisted your advice, and see that every time I follow your counsel, I and my daughter improve more and more. I guess after all these years, watching doctors rush me through a consult, I had come to trust none of them.

I thank God for you that you are willing to study hard and continually learn, and share your discoveries, so that God can use you to save lives. You are a true instrument of God.

With My Deepest Thanks,

Lisa Johnson California

I have suffered for 3 years without being diagnosed until I met Dr. James Schaller. He is the most compassionate, intelligent doctor I have ever come in contact with. After being shuffled from doctor to doctors office, and told it was all in my head. I finally found Dr. James Schaller. He took the time to listen to me, he cared about what I thought and did lab work that the other doctors never even heard of before. I know I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Dr. Schaller. He ended my suffering.
HE IS MY HERO!!

Thank you Dr. Schaller from the bottom of my heart!
J.L. from Naples, Florida

I have known Dr. James Schaller for the last year. In that time he has become a friend and colleague. I have become to respect and admire this fantastic person over the last months. He is intensely dedicated to the care and treatment of patients with chronic disease who have not been able to find treatment solutions.

He has phenomenal track record when it come to publications and communicating complex medical concepts to the general layperson. His recent series of publications are outstanding and of great benefit to the community.

James is energetic, hard working, compassionate and a caring physician. He has a great ability to collaborate with his peers and to 'make things happen'.
He is dedicated to the understanding of many illnesses, including flea and tick borne diseases and their treatment. Of great impact is his personal interest in connecting neurological abilities and psychiatric disease with tick and flea borne diseases. I think that Dr. Schaller is a great physician and I am proud to say that he is my colleague.

Stephen E. Fry, MD Scottsdale, Arizona January 2007