Private clinical nutritionist worth it?

[DJ_CJ1]

Does anyone have any experience getting help from a clinical nutritionist/registered dietitian through a private clinic?

I found a special offer directed at helping people with IBS and I'm wondering if it's worth the money. The offer included a personal meal plan for full FODMAP elimination and re-introduction over a 3-6 month period. They also claim to have a guarantee that states I'll get my money back if my symptoms don't get better.

I found the price at $200 a month to be a bit steep so I'm wondering if anyone else has any opinions on this? Should I try it?

[b1b1b1]

My doctor sent me to a medical dietician for IBS and the Fodmap diet. She charged $100 for a half hour telephone Facebook session. She was really helpful, however, so it was worth it. I would just make sure she is really qualified and is a medical dietician as opposed to just a nutritionist.

[Lanidove]

Yes As a certified Holistic Health and Nutritional Educator / practitioner and a former IBS Patient and survivor having had bad IBS most of my life since I was a child . FODMAP will help you to heal . This is my specialty as well with my clients and I’m a private professional chef; so I provide a pot of soup a week with only organic and FODMAP specific foods designed to keep you well .it’s all about diet and stress Management and you definitely will benefit from working with a professional . Yes it’s worth ten x that to get your health back . Just do it , you have to start somewhere .

[corpgov10]

I will say something counter to the advice you've been given. I took a private dietician six weeks,ago to help resolve my constant IBS flare ups. The hour I had with her she rehashed the low fodmap diet advice and gave me nhs links and leaflets, all of which I could have discovered on my own initiative .

When a week after the zoom session I had severe cramps based on her dietary recommendations of frying lightly in oil to get more calories in, her email response was basically "don't stress so much, this works!"

Utter waste of a hundred pounds.

They won't know your body any better than you do, trial and error, research and patience are instead your guides to a better life. There are no short cuts, unfortunately. But dieticians can be very hit and miss.

[xjrs]

I agree with b1b1b1 , as long as they are a medically trained dietitian and not a nutritional therapist. In the UK we get a referral to these dietitians from our GPs. Unfortunately this may not be the case elsewhere. I had an OK time being taken through the FODMAP diet with a dietitian, but had an absolutely terrible time with nutritional therapists who have very little in the way of medical training - they diagnosed me with something that I didn't have, made me very ill and my condition became far worse.

[userotc in reply to xjrs]

Whilst naturopathic nutritionists are not medically trained per se but they should be trained in naturopathic nutrition therapy. This will include a basic understanding of medical principles including allopathic practices.I am currently completing a 3yr Diploma in this. Whilst I have already successfully treated a GORD patient, I will be specialising in another area when I qualify and start consulting.

I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with NTs but that can happen with any practitioner including dieticians (as corpgov10 testifies here).

[marthaalice]

I paid a fortune to a private nutritionist, nothing she suggested helped and I spent an absolute fortune on all the supplements she recommended. In the end I paid to see a Gastro privately which I found much more useful and in the end cheaper.

[DJ_CJ1 in reply to marthaalice]

What kind of supplements were you recommended? And what did the gastro do that helped you? If you don't mind elaborating.

[marthaalice in reply to DJ_CJ1]

So many supplements. Digestive enzymes, magnesium, mushroom powder, garlic capsules, acid calm, physilum husks, expensive multivitamins, to name a few, the list is endless and each time there was no improvement, she prescribed countless more. The Gastro did loads of tests, scans etc and eventually gave me laxido to take every day which has been a complete game changer for me. I suffered with extreme bloating and pain. He told me toAvoid gluten, onions and garlic.

[userotc]

A "special offer" needs to be carefully researched but I can recommend the use of naturopathic practitioners based on personal experience. This helped me to decide on a career change, as outlined just now in reply to xjrs.

In responses to-date, you'll note differing experiences with both the above practitioners and dieticians. Whilst similar, these are different with the latter largely adopting allopathic principles, as followed by medical doctors. After initially having bad experiences with such doctors, I preferred a naturopathic route. We all have different experience and beliefs.

[userotc]

There was no need to reply as that was obvious in your reply to the OP. Already there have been conflicting experiences reported in this post, as I indicated is likely.