Good Day Folks,
Today I am going to share my experience with Dr Pankaj Bharti. This new experience is one of the many of my long list of experiences with various doctors on my long long long long journey of fighting psoriasis and towards health and peace.
Frist and foremost, the contact numbers you see on drbhartis website are not to get in touch with Dr Pankaj Bharti. He has built a team of very fresh college graduates maybe BHMS or BUMS who refer themselves also as doctors. But they are extremely young, that is to say they might not have much experience in dealing with diseases, patients and so on.
I first called up on one of those numbers and got in contact with a one Dr Pooja. I explained to her that I am autoimmune patient and I have psoriasis due to food allergies. If you have read my blog before, my psoriasis has reduced somewhat because of the AIP diet. Anyways, I digressed, I explained to her that my mother has extremely severe Ankylosis Spondilits which is an auto immune disease where the immune system destroys the joints and bones together. She wanted to start my mother on a list of supplements and herbal medicines right away and asked me to pay 5000 INR. But I resisted and demanded to see Dr Bharti first and go by his recommendation. After a few more calls and after paying 1500 INR , Dr Pooja agreed to arange a whatsapp video call with myself, my mother and Dr Pankaj Bharti.
During the video call, Dr Pankaj Bharti saw my mother's back and diagnosed her as "extreme loss of bone". He didnt use any medical term to diagnose her illness other than that. I asked him is there a medical term for this illness. He didnt answer and repeated again its a "loss of bone and arthritis". I said is it an auto immune diease like "Ankylosing Spondilitis" he said, wait for it, "NO". My confidence in him came down. He said there is no such disease as auto immune disease in India and these diseases happen only to the western world. I was shaken. and the confidence with which he said that and the arrogance with which he said that was disappointing. The whole video call lasted less than 2 minutes and it felt like nothing valuable could be obtained from the video call. You are never going to see him with consultation, you are only going to
After a few days, I transfered 5000 INR first without getting an invoice or a bill for the supplements I was paying. Despite repeated requests, I did not get the bill or invoice. She asked why I wanted the bill or invoice. I explained to her that in any commercial transaction, the buy recieves a bill or invoice of what is being bought by him and then the buyer pays the money after knowing in all awareness what he is paying for. Anyway, I didnt get the bill because "their account was on a leave" and I paid 5000 INR she wanted me to pay.
I received these three supplements for the 5000 INR to help with my mother's ankylosis spondilits. Pictures attached.
1. Byna
2. Reju CCM
3. Reju MSM
The schedule to take them was
Reju CCM 1 - 1 (1 in morning with breakfast and 1 in evening with dinner)
Reju MSM 1 - 1 (1 in morning with breakfast and 1 in evening with dinner)
Byna 2 - 2 (2 in morning with breakfast and 2 in the evening with dinner)
It was fine for initially when my mother started taking this. But soon after, my moms health started to deteriorate. She started feeling, very very tired, unable to walk, unable to think, unable to do any walk, biggest of them all was both her knees were swollen like a baloon. Intially, I was astonished and unbelievable, so we stopped all this and surely her symptoms faded away. After a few days, she started these supplements again and all her symptons were back like before. I called up Dr Pooja and told her that the supplements were having severe side effects, she immediately snapped back at me very rudely "mat lona supplements! koi zabardasti nahi hai!". Translation "No one is forcing you to take supplements, dont take them". I said, you are a doctor, and my mother needs help, what is the solution? She said to get the following tests then. I was hoping these tests would shed some light on why my mother was having severe side effects to these medicines.
The tests she asked for were:
1) Arthritic profile including RA factor
2) BMD test
3) Vit D3
4) Vit B12
After doing a pain staking research on where these tests can be done for economical cost. It took me 15 days to get all these tests done. I sent her a report of these tests hoping to get an answer for why the medicines were having side effects. You know what she said ? You want to know ? She jsut said "Vit D low hai". Thats it! nothing more! nothing less! I mean, no shit sherlock even a normal person without any clinical symptoms has a low Vit D and my mother who has the most severe ankylosing spondilites would obviously have a low Vit D, thank you for enlightening me Einstein!. I mean thats all you are capable of doing? I asked myself. So all those tests and the time and money spent behind getting it done was completely a waste. and my mom finished the one month course in three months.
In summary, The wellness and health awareness, level, knowledge and sophistication in India, is very very bad to understate it. We need more knowledge and know how about gut health and auto immunity almost as if a second nature. Only then we can make our country "swast bharat" all this mumbo jumbo psuedo science without empircal evidence and understanding just helping the one who are only ill in a very minor way.
After a few months, We thought to do a full course of their wellness program... this will be shared in another post due to lack of time.
