Recovery Without Walls

I’ve been dealing with addiction and emotional issues for many years. I prefer not to get into specifics. What I can say is that for the past year, Dr. Kornfeld and his staff have helped me cope with my issues more than anyone has ever have, and I’ve seen others prior to seeing him. To them, it’s not just solving issues with prescriptions only, but to dig deep to the root of the problem and to find the cause of the problem and finding a long-​term solution. In addition, I’ve been without insurance for a while and they still helped me with my financial situation, whether it was cost and when it was time to pay. I really can’t thank them enough for all that they’ve done for me.

Dr. Kornfeld has helped me manage my medications and deal with fibromyalgia and chronic pain in a balanced and sustainable way that my medical insurance provider could not. It’s cutting-​edge service, but it’s worth the expense. He is truly an expert.

We constantly spend money on items designed to give us short term pleasure, like wine or vacations or gifts to worthy causes. But there is nothing as important as pain relief or addiction relief. This is an investment that not only benefits you, but all those with whom you have contact. Pain and the accompanying mental stress effects your personal life, your business life and all your relationships.
My wife and I were both suffering from permanent pain due to a parasite infection that damaged our spinal cord. We had been engaged in multi year programs from our HMO that had us on various regimes of Oxycontin and Vicadin. When we tried to taper down, the years of pills had made it hard to distinguish between the pain and the withdrawal. The HMO was perfectly sympathetic, but they are too overwhelmed to give the individual attention that might provide relief. Furthermore, in my situation, the pain had affected my work and I entered an unfamiliar and unsettling dark place. The HMO had me taking Ativan for a year, when two weeks is supposed to be max and was starting me into Prozac. I could tell immediately this was not going to work. It was generic pharmacology that was dumb and dumber. My blood pressure was soaring to ¹⁶⁵⁄₁₀₅. I was not sleeping, I was wiped out by minor exercise and I felt like a zombie.
So I went to see Dr Inna Zelikman at Recovery Without Walls. My wife had gone to see her three months earlier and Dr. Zelikman had proscribed a régime of treatment that got her off six years of Oxycontin in 48 hours. She had more energy and was transformed.
My situation was more complex. Dr. Zelikman prescribed a variety of drugs and timing and monitored me every 24 hours for the first week and then every 48 hours for the second week. It was remarkable. I kicked the ativan in 48 hours and my mood began shifting within a week.
The goal with Recovery Without Walls is not to substitute one drug for another. Buprenorphine has been taking some flack recently for Doctors or patients who demean an effective treatment by abusing. But this is Marin County, not back county Georgia, where bored teens are obsessed with prescription drugs. The stigmatization of certain pharmaceuticals, has more to do with pharm-​chem politics and poor controls. We are not trying to get high, we are just trying to get normal. The goal of RWW is to wean you of all dependency, so you can live a normal, drug free life. This requires close attention and regular shifting of a variety of meds, based on your personal physiology. My HMO refers to this as «concierge medicine» and confesses that they will never be able to match this level of attention or creative chemistry. At my HMO, a simple appointment with the chemical dependency doctor can take six weeks. In some situations you do not have that time. Nor can you wait years for the experimentation process involved in determining what is correct for you system.
It is now five months into my treatment. My situation has been transformed. I am feeling like the person I knew two years ago and the previous decades. It could never have happened without RWW and Dr. Zelikman.
RWW does not take insurance and is not cheap. But there is no price to re-​setting your body and mind.
More than highly recommended. Required.

I was in trouble. A pinched nerve caused excruciating pain. My primary care doctor prescribed Oxycontin to relieve the agony. Although effective, once the pain subsided I was left with a dependence on the narcotic. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Dr. Kornfeld at Recovery Without Walls was recommended to assist me with an Oxycontin dependence that was ruining my life. Dr. Kornfeld guided me on a gentle transition off the Oxycontin using Buprenorphine as a substitute medicine. After several months working with Dr. Kornfeld, I now have my life back. For me, Buprenorphine does not interfere with any activities of day to day life. There is no longer a hazy filter between me and the world. Dr. Kornfeld appeared in my life at the moment I needed his guidance the most. He remains extremely caring and has always been available to receive and respond to any of my communications. It is as if I have a personal on call doctor available to tend to my medical needs. He remains the best doctor for me to manage my dependance on opioids as I begin tapering off the Buprenorphine. Again, I sincerely believe that Dr. Kornfeld guided me back to my life before I became dependent on the Oxycontin. What greater recommendation could one give?