The doctor is not functional, he's an MD but he has training in functional medicine. He was colleagues with Terry Wahls, of the Wahls' Protocol, and he is all about diet. The antibiotic therapy he wants to do is found at roadback.org - a less conventional approach to treating rheumatic disease. He also put me on a paleo diet. I was on a ketogenic diet, but was eating dairy, so now he has me off of dairy too. It hasn't been enough time to really tell what good it's doing but my RA is being quiet and the neuropathy is raging on.

I haven't tried plaquenil. I've looked at it a few times and wondered about asking my rheumy if I can try it - she doesn't believe my neuropathy is stemming from an autoimmune process (uh, yeah, it is) but until I have some kind of blood marker for an AI disease that causes SFN, I'm pretty much screwed with her.