my mom found the doctor from a listing in a magazine, or something like that... i'd imagine, depending on the area you live on, that it wouldn't be too hard to find one through the internet/yellow pages... maybe you just need to try different terms?anyway, my symptoms were C, really bad bloating, gas, weird little abdominal "spasms", stomach pains, indigestion... first, the doctor did a thyroid test that is more sensitive than the ones you typically get, and it detected that i had a slightly low thyroid, so he started me on thyroid supplementation. then he had a stool test done, which showed that i had no "friendly" bacteria at all in my intestine, and a lot of candida yeast (i know this topic is controversial!) so he put me on a supplement for 2 weeks, i think it had licorice and bismuth salts in it, that is supposed to make the intestine more favorable to "good" bacteria, put me on probiotics, and put me on diflucan for 2 weeks for the yeast, as well as an anti-candida diet (basically, no sugar/no yeast/nothing fermented). with these changes my symptoms improved a lot but still not as much as i wanted. then the doctor guessed that i may have low stomach acid, and put me on stomach acid supplements, which helped my indigestion and bloating A LOT!! he suggested i take magnesium supplements, also, he suggested that i cut wheat out of my diet, and this also helped. so where i stand now is, almost all of my symptoms are gone or drastically alleviated. no spasms, stomach pains or indigestion, very little bloating and gas, and very little C. they would probably be better except i don't adhere all that strictly to the diet. the only disadvantage is, it's not cheap. i was lucky in that my parents were willing to pay for it and my doctor was, i think, quite competent - even diagnosing hypothyroidism that my internist had missed. i was totally at my wits' end and very depressed so for me, having someone actually attempt to get to the root of my problems was worth it. enjai think the advantage of a homeopath, or the one i saw anyway, is they will really pay more attention to your
