The Roby Institute

location: Burnet, Texas

Question: I just read “Hormone Imbalance - Hormone Allergy” & I have
never read anything or heard anyone explain ME (physically & mentally)
in an article so precisely. I’m 38 (39 next mo.), had 4 pregnancies & 3
healthy & beautiful children, & have been told unofficially by a Dr.
that I could be starting menopause. Life in general has forced me to
become a full-time housewife & I feel like there are no treatment
options for me due to lack of insurance & funds. Of course there are
simple things I can do, such as diet & exercise, & I am doing both. But
my body is screaming at me & telling me that this just isn’t enough.
What can I do to stop the screaming? I know I’m not crazy, but I feel
like I’m getting close!



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This all has to do with hormones and allergies.

Can you come here for testing and treatment? There has to be a first visit, because legally, Texas physicians are prohibited from diagnosing, treating, or prescribing for anyone whom they have not seen in person first. After that, you would be required to come in for an annual visit, to make sure that everything is still on track, or modifications might have to be made. After the visit, almost all problems, questions or changes, can be handled by telephone or email.

Dr. Roby likes to keep in close touch with his patients, and encourages them to call him, even at home, if the need arises.

You live so close, it would be a shame for you not to take advantage of the opportunity. The worst possible thing that could happen, would be that the treatment doesn’t work for you. It should take from 10 to 30 seconds, for us to find out.

While we take almost all forms of insurance, including Medicare, Medicaid and Military, no one has ever been turned away from our office for lack of insurance or funds.

If you would like to come and see us, tell me and I will call the office, let them know that you want to come in for an evaluation at no charge. They will then expect your call, and know what to do.

Should you decide that you want to follow the protocol, it will also be at no charge for whatever we do in the office. Some day soon, this terrible economic situation will be over, and we can all get back to real life. Meantime, we help each other in the best ways that we can.

We can email a lab slip to you, so that you can have our standard hormone panel blood test done locally. When the results get back to us, which usually takes about ten days, you can call 800-842-6349, someone will go over the results with you, and tell you what the options are, as we see them. You can make a longer, real appointment, if you want, at that time.

Have you read the sections on the website about Food Allergy and Airborne Allergy? I would suggest you do that first, so you can have a better idea of how it all fits together, which makes it easier to understand when our method is being explained to you.

Also, go to www.amazon.com, and look at Dr. Roby’s new book. It’s called “Maybe It Is All In Your Head…And You Are NOT Crazy”. Amazon is allowing a free download of the first chapter of the book. If you do decide to buy it, I think that it is selling for $7.95, Dr. Roby would like for you to write a review on Amazon.

I’m sorry that you are having all of these problems, but glad that you didn’t stop looking and found us. There is hope out here, Jody. Let’s get well. Feel free to email me at any time.

Best regards,

Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute

location: San Marcos TX

Question: I will turn 23 this december. I have had almost all the symptoms of a hormone imbalance. I recently had my gallbladder removed, and my surgeon suggested I may have a thyroid problem. I take lexapro and a weight loss supplement. Many of the doctors I have spoken to write everything off because I am so young. I also assume I should be in top health considering I am young, but I am not. Considering my age, is it possible that I have a hormonal imbalance?



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Try to stay away from doctors who make their living by using very sharp knives. Take it out, is always their mantra, it’s what they do. Come see if we can fix it before you have any more surgery.

Yes, in answer to your question. It can certainly be caused by hormone imbalance, and you were probably born with it. We look at hormone levels a bit differently than traditional medicine does. Normal range doesn’t mean much. Is it high normal or low normal? Do you have the same hormone level as an 85 year old woman, or the 23 year old woman that you are? That is the important part of the equation. Dr. Roby’s book: “Maybe It Is All In Your Head…And You Are NOT Crazy!” has been published by Amazon. Go to their website, www.amazon.com, and download the first chapter of the book, for free, or just buy the book if you like it. You will have many of your questions answered in that book. Then, you can go to our website, www.robyinstitute.com, and read these sections, in this order. 1) Hormone Imbalance. Will give you an overview of disorders caused by hormone imbalance and/or allergy. 2) Food Allergy. You may be very surprised by the relationship between hormones and common allergies. 3) Airborne Allergy. Will help you to better understand the entire relationship. It sort of ties it all up in a neat bundle for you. If you still have questions, email them to me.

Any time that you are told that you have “autoimmune” anything, it is an indication of hormone imbalance, or hormone mediated hypersensitivity. If it happens regularly at the same time around your period very month, it is an indication of those same two things. If you are told that you have something that is ‘idiopathic’ (it means that the doctor has no clue, and can’t bring himself to tell you that he doesn’t know), you can be certain that it is those same tired, old, two things already mentioned. Hormones run your body and your life. If one is out of order, they will eventually all be out of order. Sounds grim. Doesn’t it? Be thankful that if you have to have a diagnosis, this is the one that you want to have. You aren’t suffering from some dread disease, you are just out of balance. Easy for us to recognize and easy for us to treat. No invasive procedures, no pain and suffering, all natural products. We don’t like drugs very much.

We don’t even do allergy shots anymore. Shots hurt and can cause all sorts of unpleasant things to happen, sublingual drops don’t hurt, have been used for decades, along with bio identical hormones, with no adverse events having been reported. You cannot overdose, there is nothing in them that can harm you, even if you think you’ve made a mistake in the dosage, there is not a thing to worry about.

We are so confident in what we do, that we offer a money back, satisfaction guarantee. Come in, with all of your symptoms, and let us show what we do and how we do it. If you don’t feel significantly better before you leave the office, there is no charge for the visit. If you decide to become a patient, and somewhere along the way you decide that it isn’t working for you the way that you had hoped, just ask, and we’ll give any money that you paid us, right back to you. I think that ALL doctors should be held to that standard. It might at least, make them be more polite to their patients.

You live so close, why don’t you just make an appointment with us, and see for yourself? We take almost all healthcare plans, including Medicare, Medicaid and Military. We can email a lab slip so that you can have our standard hormone panel done locally. It takes about ten days usually, to receive the results. You can call, and someone will discuss your results and give you the options, as we see them. At least, you can make an informed decision.

After you’ve done your reading, and still have questions, or want clarification on something that I have said, just email them to me, and we’ll talk about it. If you want to make an appointment to check us out, the number is 512-338-4336. Anyone who answers the phone can help you with it. Please feel free to email me at any time. Thank you for sharing a part of your life with us.

Best regards,

Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute

location: Montgomery, AL

Question: Do you have any hormone treatment specifically for Crohn’s disease?



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Cronh’s disease is one of those ‘idiopathic’ (idiopathic being doctorese for I don’t have a clue what to do, but can’t tell my patients that) diseases. Traditional medicine, bases it on a constellation of symptoms, and they give it a name. Mostly so that the patients have something to justify the agony that they are going through, to their family and friends, and won’t bother the doctor so much. Doctors think that it has no known cause, no known cure, no known effective treatment. All they have to offer, is eventual colon surgery. We try to stay away from people who make a living with very sharp knives!

Fortunately, we call it one of the symptoms of hormone imbalance, and can successfully treat it with alternative and complementary medicine that does work.

Before I get too deeply into this, I’m going to ask you to go to www.amazon,com, and download (for free) the first chapter of Dr. Roby’s new book: “Maybe It Is All In Your Head…And You Are NOT Crazy”, or just buy the book. After you have finished that, go to the website: www.robyinstitute.com, and read the section on Homone Imbalance. This will give you more knowledge about hormones, what their role is, how they interact with each other, what the effects can be, and are, when they are in a state of imbalance, than any doctor that you have been to. It will help you to understand what is going on inside your body, why it is happening, and how we can help you to regain control of your life. We can teach you, but you will have to do most of the work.

I would also like for you to read the sections on Food Allergy and Airborne Allergy. You will understand how everything fits hormones and allergies so tightly together, that it is very difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Which is why we always prefer to treat both of them together. We learned a long time ago, that we get a better result in a much shorter time that way.

Before 1941, babies who were born with allergies/hormone imbalance, generally died of some childhood disease. The hormone imbalance meant that they had no way of combatting these diseases, and they usually began with an allergic reaction to something, but no one noticed, or thought that it was ‘just a cold’. In 1941, we got Dr. Roby, and antibiotics. I really do not think that it was coincidence. Once we had the antibiotics, these babies and kids, who had been meant to die, could be saved, and were able to grow up to have children of their own, and passed their hormone imbalance and allergies on to their children. We have now had four generations of increasingly allergic children.

We use a combination of treatments in our protocol. We have the medical part of the program, and a nonmedical part. There is traditional medicine, where we know it will help, dietary changes, a new way of thinking about movement, spirituality (yours, not ours), complementary and alternative methods. We don’t much like drugs, and use only natural products when possible.

Back to Crohn’s. Yes, we can fix it. It does entail a trip to the office. Texas law prohibits doctors from diagnosing, treating, or prescribing for anyone they haven’t first seen in person. We would email a lab slip, so that you could have our standard hormone panel blood test done locally. We usually receive the results in about ten days. You can call the office, at that time, 800-842-6349, and someone will discuss your results with you and give you the options, as we see them. If you think that you would like to visit us, you can make your appointment at that time.

We are so confident of success with this type of disorder, that if you come in with pain and other symptoms, and do not feel significantly better before you leave, we do not charge for the visit. We would first ‘neutralize’ the symptoms, and make them go away instantly, by using your blood test as a guideline, testing with small amounts of the substances that have been shown to be actually causing your problem. This gives us the time that we need to design the longer term ‘desensitizing’ treatment plan for you. Each treatment plan is different, and based solely on the results of each individual’s tests. We have never subscribed to the “one pill fits all’ theory. If you decide to become a patient and follow the protocol, and at anytime feel that it is not working well enough for you, you only have to ask, for your money back. Any money that you have paid us, will be refunded to you. Our “satisfaction guarantee” is the same for everyone that we treat.

When you have finished your reading, and find that you still have questions, or you need clarification of anything that I have said, just email me and we will discuss whatever you want. Bio identical hormones, looong, slooow distance walking, concommitant foods, how to keep the air inside your home safe, all of the things that you will run into. Make a list, and tell me.

I’m sorry that you have the problem, but glad that you kept up your search and found us. There is hope out here, for recovery. You can, just by making a few changes, feel like your old self again, or even better. Thank you for sharing this part of your life with us. Feel free to email at any time.
Best regards,

Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute

location: Wilmington, NC

Question: Hi! I have read your website page about hormone imbalance
and allergies…and I fit the description 100%. I have had so many
problems that doctors haven’t been able to figure out. Your website
just made it all clear to me. I get asthma symptoms once a month right
before my period. During my period I have a migraine the entire week.
My cramps are so bad I have to be on pain meds or I can’t work the whole
week.

I am 26 years old. I was on birth control pills for 9 years until I was
25. I switched pills 7 or 8 times because they always made me sick.
When I was 23 I was on Tri-Nessa. I was fine the first year. Then I
got sick every time I took it, to the point I would get nauseous for
hours around the time I had to take the pill. Finally I started getting
so nauseous I was sick for 8 months and couldn’t get out of bed. I
stopped taking the birth control pills and about a month later I wasn’t
nauseous anymore. I only stayed on the pills because I get ovarian
cysts and my doctor told me to stay on them.

I have all the hair patterns you write about.

I don’t know what to do now. Do I need to come to Austin, TX for an
appointment? How do I treat this? Will it have any effect on my
fertility and when I get pregnant? Thank you!!!



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Yes. You would have to come to Austin for the first visit, and once a year after that, which is also required, for retesting, Physicians in Texas are not allowed to diagnose, prescribe for, or treat in any way until they have seen the patient in person.

If you think that you would like to come here, the number to call is: 800-842-6349. The scheduling team can send a lab slip, so that you can do the blood test locally. It takes about 10 days for us to get back the results. You can call us then, and someone will discuss those results with you, and offer the best options, as we see them.

Everything that we do with patients, is based strictly on that person’s tests. We have lots of out of state patients, and they usually can make a one day trip out of it. You would be at our office for about 3-hours, and would go home with everything that you need to start feeling good again.

Your symptoms are so classic of the person who is reacting to one or more of his or her hormones. There is a name for it, even. Hormone mediated inflammation. Just based on the things that you have said in your email, I would say that you are having allergic reactions to both progesterone, causing the premenstrual asthma, and estrogen, causing the headaches and cramps. Of course, the pain causes you to pump out adrenlin, which causes stress, which causes more pain, and you get into the stress-pain-stress-pain cycle, which is almost impossible to stop without an outside influence. We can stop that cycle, dead in its tracks, then figure out how to ‘reboot’ you. That gives us time to formulate a longer term treatment plan, for you, based on the results of your testing. We never have used the ‘one size fits all’ method, we think more in terms of ‘one pill fits none’, so we treat the individual.
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As to the fertility question, we would put you on bioidentical hormones, not synthetic and it does make some women more fertile. We have found that it doesn’t effect a pregnancy, but if the OB tells you to stop using it until after birth, that’s what we would do.

If your doctor would like to be involved, Dr. Roby welcomes him to be. Just have him call Dr. Roby at: 512-372-8905, and speak directly with him.

On Amazon.com, Dr.Roby’s new book is available for downloading. “MAYBE IT IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD…AND YOU AREN’T CRAZY”. Read it, and you will find answers, to many oof your questions.

Thank you for allowing us to share the problems in your life. Now, let’s get ready for a healthier, happier life. If you have more questions, or need clarification on anything that I’ve said,please feel free to email me at any time.

Regards,

Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute

Location: Alden, NY

Question: Dear Dr. Roby,

I am 37 years old with three children ages 17, 13, and 9. After the birth of my oldest, I started having awful palpitations and shortness of breath. At some point that got somewhat better and I had my second child. After he was born I began to have similar symptoms and was diagnosed with postpartum thyroiditis. I was told that my T3 was only affected though, so I don’t think I was treated at that time.

I had three failed pregnancies after that, one of which was a partial molar pregnancy. I continued to not feel well and have palpitations, headaches, shortness of breath, fatigue. I finally got pregnant with my youngest son and after I had him, I struggled horribly with severe palpitations, sweating profusely, headaches, fatigue, etc. I could barely function my heart would pound so hard. I was then diagnosed with hyperthyroidism but wasn’t given any medication since my son was
breastfeeding. I tried to wean him with the help of family members, but he would not take anything but me until he was 13 months old. I was beside myself. Finally I weaned him and my thyroid was retested but it was normal. I went back to the doctor soon after because I still felt lousy and was told I was hypothyroid. They said it was thyroiditis. I began on Levothroid 50mcg at that time and since have been retested several times. A scan showed two nodules but a second revealed no change. Last year my dose was temporarily increased to 75mcg after going off Levothroid for a month and being retested. My eyes started twitching, so I dropped back down to 50mcg. Anyway, I continue to feel lousy and was told over a year ago that my heart function (systolic) has weakened as a result of my heart pounding and/or racing for so long. My doctor prescribed a low dose of Metoprolol to try to minimize the effects of adrenaline on my heart. I have very low blood pressure to begin with though. His only explanation for me is that I have anxiety. I don’t agree. Yes, I feel anxiety from
my body doing what it does sometimes, but I feel more exhausted and spent as though my body is doing things I have no control over. I tried several SSRIs and an SSNRI and felt lousy on them and suffered severe withdrawal trying to get off them. I also tried things like Xanax that made me even more exhausted. I used to suffer from allergies that caused runny, stuffy nose, etc., and was told I had asthma, but the inhalers made me feel far worse so I didn’t use them. I am somewhat convinced that my shortness of breath is primarily due to the racing heart. I was tested a long time ago and more recently and told I am allergic to dust, cats, and severely to molds (and a few other things). I don’t get congested anymore, but often feel like my ears and head have a lot of pressure. I have gotten a lot of vascular type migraines and when I don’t have one I often feel like I am on the verge of getting one. Often after I eat, my heart palpitations increase and my head feels “spacey”.

Around my period I feel absolutely awful. I am extremely irritable and by the end of the day, I feel like I can’t even think straight. I keep trying to find a correlation between certain foods or environmental factors, but always come up without an explanation. I feel like I am at my wits end and just want to feel well again. I have been to so many doctors (cardiologist, electrophysiologist, allergist, primary, chiropractor, etc.) and just pray I will find an answer. I am frustrated at being told I have anxiety - I just don’t feel well! Which doctor do I beg to be tested for a hormone imbalance or allergy? Are you able to order the tests long distance? Please help if you can.



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First of all, can you come here to Texas for a day or so?

We can email a lab slip to do the standard hormone panel blood test, it will take about 10 days to get the results. You can call and someone will discuss your results and outline your options, as we see them. If you can come here, I know that we can stop all of it. The number to call is: 800-842-6349. Our scheduling team can get the lab slip to you, verify your insurance benefits, we take most plans, including M’Care, M’Caid and Military, and make the appointment, all at the same time.

Doctors in Texas, cannot legally diagnose, prescribe, or treat a person whom they have not seen in person. After the initial visit, it is only once a year. Most of little problems can be handled by phone or email.

This is hormonal, and traditional physicians in the USA, don’t know anything about hormones. They guess a lot…not often getting it right, and you have your experience…doctor to doctor, test after test, and still feeling lousy.

You have so many symptoms that are classic for hormone imbalance, or an allergic reaction to your own hormones. Which is called hormone mediated inflammation. Usually, the primary culprits turn out to be progesterone and adrenalin, but it can include any of the hormones that the body produces.

Amazon.com has Dr. Roby’s new book for download. ‘MAYBE IT IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD…AND YOU ARE NOT CRAZY’. If you read that book, you will see another way of looking at these disorders with which you are obviously being misdiagnosed.

You can also go to the website: www.robyinstitute.com, and read these three sections, in this order, before browsing the rest of the site. 1) Hormone Imbalance. Gives you an overview of what is actually going on inside your body, why, and how we can help you to take control of your body, stop all of these symptoms, and have a life again. A good, healthy life.

2) Food Allergy. Will explain why we eat and drink the things we do, why it makes us feel better most of the time, but sometimes makes it worse.

3) Airborne Allergy. You can’t reach out and clean up the air outside, but you certainly can do it inside your home. And see what a difference that makes! We tell you how to do exactly that, using locally accessible products, that are inexpensive and incredibly effective.

In the meantime, you can do something for yourself to feel better. It isn’t easy, at first, but we’ve all had to do it. This practice is based on these five precepts: traditional medicine, where applicable, dietary changes, movement, spirituality, alternative and complementary medicine.

When we have out of state patients, and we have many, we ask them to follow this non med portion of the protocol for 30 days before deciding to make this trek. Of all of the things above, the most important is the movement. If you cannot, or will not be able to handle the movement, we know that there is nothing that we can do for you.

DIET: Simplify. Low fat, low carb. We particularly like the South Beach Diet because of the variety of choices that we get. Weight Watchers is good, too. Actually, all diets will work, if you do it religiously. Sugar and caffeine, are never your friends. We only do food restrictions on school days and nights. Take a break on the weekend, and eat all you want of the two foods you missed the most.

MOVEMENT: You will have to start slowly, and work up to 1hour in the morning, and 1 hour in the evening, of looong, slooow distance walking, preferably on a treadmill inside. If you don’t have a treadmill (there’s one at WalMart for about $200.00), you can do it in a mall. You really don’t want to be doing it in real air with pollutants. Keep your pulse rate at 90. You don’t want to sweat, and you don’t want shortness of breath. Any of those will mean that you are going too fast and need to slooow down a bit more. I know that by this time, you are probably groaning, but if you have to, start with five minutes, when that gets to be easy, try 10 minutes, and as things get easier, add more time, until you hit the magic number of 60 minutes. The night time walk is to dissipate that excessive adrenalin, which you have built up during the day.

SPIRITUALITY: This would be yours, not ours, whatever works to center you, calms your soul, and helps you to relax. Prayer, meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc. You will find that you are resting better, and feeling better, I guarantee that if you will do this, you will be feeling at least 50% better in 30 days. Keep in touch with me so that I can monitor, and give suggestions when you need them.

Thanks for sharing your life problems with us. Now, let’s get well

Regards,

Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute

location: Abilene TX

Question: I’ve been in CONSTANT pain since Feb 2006. I’ve seen so many doctors, taken so many medications and yet nobody can take away the pain. TMJ, Brain Tumor, Occipital Neuralgia, etc. I’ve been told I have it all, but they can’t fix me. Finally, I began trying to find the source on my own. I scheduled an allergy test. Found out I was allergic to beans, corn, chocolate, peanuts, ragweed, pecan trees, horses, etc…… I still find it hard to believe that I’m allergic, but when I eat foods that contain corn, within an hour or less, I begin to get a “swelling” feeling all around my eye, my ear, my neck, glands and face. It’s like the insides of my sinuses are swelling and inflammed. I’m in pain right now because I caved in and had some nachos for a snack. Now i’m paying for it. I’m depressed, I’m angry, I’ve been hurting so long. What can I do to make this better? I just need to know what is “safe” to eat that will not trigger this pain.

I get the pain in my head, neck, eye and it feels like it’s swelling even from scents of candles, lotions, perfumes, cleaning supplies. If you can help me, please let me know. I will gladly drive to you. Your website is the only place I have found that discusses the very same symptoms that I have.

Thank you for your help,

Ms. J.



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I will be happy to see you. Call and make an appointment at 512-338-4336. If you go to the website at www.robyinstitute.com, you order my new book, Maybe It Is All In Your Head, And You Are Not Crazy.

In it you will find detailed descriptions of how we deal with this and what you can do to get your life back where it was before this began.

Warm regards,

Dr. Roby

Many people have lots of questions about hormone imbalance and bioidentical hormones yet simply do not know where to find reliable information. Outside of speaking to your physicians, please feel free to contact us through via email: roby@drroby.com.

Bioidentical hormones are made from soybeans or yams and converted in a lab to exactly match the hormones our bodies have been utilizing all of our lives. Some people refer to these as “natural” hormones.

Premarin is not a bioidentical hormone. It is produced from pregnant mare’s urine and has many metabolic breakdown products that may cause unpleasant side effects, such as bloating, headaches and moodiness.

Bioidentical hormones require a prescription. They can be prepared as capsules, skin creams or gels, oral drops or lozengers, or vaginal creams.

A woman’s body actually produces three different types of estrogen: estradiol, estrone, and estriol. Your prescription will contain a combination in varing ratios of these estrogens based on your needs. If you have an intact uterus, progesterone may be a necessary ingredient to prevent uterine cancer.

location: Marietta, GA

Question: i am 43 and i seem to have all the symptoms of hormone imbalance. i have been treated for a few years now for manic depression, but nothing really seems to help. I went to a Dr. recently he drew blood for progesterone, estrogen, thyroid , the results came back normal - low end of normal but normal.

I am irritable all the time, big anxiety problems, depression, hair loss, hair growth around nipples, lots of pubic hair on inner thigh, i recently contacted women to women and ordered their product but i am so impatient and not sure this is the right route to take. i feel very overhwelmed can you help?




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Dear Kathleen,

Before anything else, read Dr. Roby´s book, Maybe It Is All In Your Head, and You Aren´t Crazy.which is out on Amazon.com. You can even download it.

I´m sorry that you are having all of these problems. You would be a good poster girl for hormone imbalance, even be having an allergic reaction to one or more of your own hormones, and in answer to your question, yes; we can help you.

Unfortunately, traditional physicians are almost totally ignorant of the role that hormones play in our lives. Quite simply, that everything that happens in your body, is in some way, dependent on hormones. We look at normal range as a bit of a myth, in relation to the health of your hormones. When we do our test panel for hormones, we want the true levels, not whether you are within normal ranges (which to traditional docs,just means “for your age”), what they don´t think about, or tell patients about, is that is that normal can include from 5 to 95, and you certainly, at your age, don´t want the hormonal function of a 95 year old woman, and they´ve already told you that they are in the low range! As long as the patient is anywhere inside that normal range, they refuse to do anything to adjust them.

We think that if you´re going to be in the normal hormonal range, we should give them a boost, and move them up to the higher end of normal, so that they are closer to your true age, and you will feel good again.

I would ask you to go back to the website: www.robyinstitute.com, and read these three sections, in the order given. 1) Hormone Imbalance. Will tell you more than most doctors even know about what is going on inside your body, why it is happening, and how we can help you to make the meaningful changes, to put you back in control of your own inner workings. 2) Food Allergy. How the food we eat and drinks we drink can help you to feel better or worse, and why, how they change from season to season. 3) Airborne Allergy. While we cannot usually know what is in the outside air, or do anything except avoid being in it, we can definitely control the quality of the air that we breathe inside our homes. This section will tell you exactly how to do so, inexpensively, with locally, easily acquired items, and best of all…effectively. You don´t need the beautiful, if non-functional, widgets in the catalogs, we make it easy for you.

Can you come to Texas for testing and treatment? Texas law doesn´t allow our doctors to be diagnosing, treating or prescribing, for any patient that they have not seen in person. You would have to come here for the initial visit, and once a year for retesting, from then on.

We can email a lab slip so that you can have the blood test locally. We usually receive the results in about 10 days. You can give us a call, and someone will discuss your results, and what we see as your best options. We have lots of out of town patients, it´s a day trip, or at most, an overnight trip, by air.

We take most health insurance plans, and if you will call the scheduling ladies at: 800-842-6349, they can check your benefits so that you have a pretty good idea of cost, and can make an informed decision.

The protocol includes a non-med and a medical part, and it is definitely a lifestyle change. Dr. Roby likes for all out of towners to begin to follow the non med part for 30 to 60 days before making the trek here, only to find out that you can´t, or won´t to do the physical part, for one reason or another. If you think that you would really like to come see us, please let me know, and I´ll tell you all about it.

Please feel free to email me at any time, if you have questions or need clarifications on anything. Don´t give up hope, you can feel good again. Thanks for sharing your problems with us…now, let´s get you back to the person you want to be.

Dorothy.Dreux
Roby Institute
Austin TX

location: Anchorage, AK

Question: I am 39 years old. I am currently 60 pounds overweight. This has not always been the case for me. I was an active athletic child, adolescent, young adult, and was not overweight. After having children everything changed for me physically. I suspect changes were happening before this, but I ignored them thinking I was just “getting older” and my body was changing (major hairloss along with joint pain and heart palpatations in my early twenties that lasted about 6 mos., 20 pound weight gain in 2 mos. after ovarian cyst removal surgery in early 30’s, sinus sugery late 20’s)

After having children (first at 33) each time I had all kinds of CRAZY symptoms. I had my third child a year ago (my second one died in utero at 6 and a half mos.), and I am worse off than I have ever been. Symptoms are major fatigue, silent migraines, pain and stiffness in every major joint-worst being the neck and spine, a feeling of being drugged when I wake up in the morning, no men!

Mental clarity, irritability, occasional bilateral pain in upper abdomen …the list goes on. I don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol, and no longer drink any caffeine (I noticed it dehydrated me and made symptoms worse-even just one soda). I drink only water now. As my day progresses my fatigue does too. Besides the spine I usually feel best in the morning about 30 minutes after getting up. At night I usually hit a point where I HAVE to go to bed. I just can’t “go” anymore. I am also better off if I am up moving around, but with the spine pain, huge lack of energy and feeling “drugged” all day, lately it’s hard to always be up moving. I had temporary vision loss in my left eye in May of 2008.
I have had every major test: MRI, ecocardiagram, halter monitor for a month of heart monitoring, carotid artery sono, and every blood test you can imagine. They have found nothing wrong. The most interesting clue so far is a month ago I took 60 mg of prednisone daily for 6 days followed by a taper to see what would happen.

OH MY GOSH I have NEVER felt so good in my life!!! During the six days of the high dose of prednisone I was super woman. I had mental clarity, motivation, NO joint pain (which has been constant for 15 years). I honestly am saying it is the best I have EVER felt even better than when I was younger, active, and not overweight. There were no negative side effects. It even stabilized my heart rate at 70ish (this surprised the doctors), and it stabilized my blood pressure. I lost 7 pounds within the first five days of the high doses (this also surprised them.) My shoes fit better
because my feet weren’t swollen.

It was a wonderful yet brief relief.

With each taper my symptoms slowly started coming back, and seem to be worse. My heart rate is again hanging out in the mid 80’s or 90’s sometimes it’s even over 100 for no apparent reason. My blood pressure goes up and down with no pattern as well. I am taking nothing right now. Dr.’s are still trying to figure out what’s wrong. They believe me now that it’s “something” because of my positive physical response to prednisone. They’re just scratching their heads now thinking “hmmmm,
what are we treating?” They say since I responded so well to high doses of steroid that it must be inflammatory and possibly auto-immune. I think it’s my hormones. My question is, “Could Prednisone have helped me so much if it was some type of hormonal “issue”? If “yes” then, what did the Prednisone possibly do to make me feel better? I live in Alaska, but am from Dallas, and go home to visit family occasionally (in Big D). I want to come see you all if I am a good candidate. I also plan on reading your book. I just stumbled upon your website on the internet tonight…Divine intervention I think. Help! I want to feel better, so I can be the best mom possible to my children.



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Dear Amy,

First, you read the book, then you immediately make an appointment to see Dr. Roby, and we prefer that patients stay off the prednisone!

My personal feeling is that it is by far, one of the nastiest drugs ever pushed off on the public. I know that it makes you feel goood again, but it can cause so many irreversible side effects, that many of us who see these things, far too often, feel that it is to keep the patient feeling cheerful while the drug is killing him or her. There are many, many newer, better drugs without the prednisone effects.

I´m sorry that you are going through this. You don´t really need to anymore…no one does.

The symptoms that you have described, are pretty classic for hormone imbalanced and allergic people. Most of us fall into that category, although the symptoms may vary somewhat, from person to person, the underlying cause is easy for us to recognize, and pretty easy to fix. I believe that you are correct about your problem being the hormones, but traditional physicians, don´t learn anything about hormones in med school, and we all know that if it isn´t taught in med school, it simply doesn´t exist.

You can read much more about it in the book, and on the website, so I´m going to give you some homework to do. This is all on the website, if you forget it.

Because this is a pretty big lifestyle change for most people, we like to get you started on the non-med part of the protocol for about 30 to 60 days before coming here. Before we have patients come all the way to Texas, and find out that they either can´t, or are just not willng to make the changes that are necessary to make it work. It does get lots easier, as we get into the new habits, but we want to make sure that you can see yourself doing it, and we can, too.

1) MOVEMENT. If we had to pick one thing as the pivotal point, without which we can help you, it has to be movement. Dr. Roby, and all of the rest of us, are expected to do looong, slooow, distance walking for 1 hour in the morning, and 1 hour prior to bedtime. We all have to do it. We all had to work up to it. This is all about your friend and enemy, adrenalin. The book will give you a better explanation than I can here. If you can´t walk, he will ask you to do whatever movement that you are capable of doing, and make a treatment plan based on your particular circumstances.

2) DIET: Low to no carb; sugar is NOT your friend! Low fat foods. We only ask that you restrict your foods for the school days and nights. Sunday night through Friday. On the weekends, eat a lot of the two foods that you´ve missed the most. We repeat this until we find out what foods really do bother you.

3) SPIRITUALITY: Your form of spirituality; not ours. Say your prayers, meditate, practice Pilates, whatever you can do to center yourself, and block out any negativity in your life.

These are three of the methods that we use here, at Roby Institute. The other two are traditional medicine, along with complementary and alternative medicine.

Do this for 30 days, keeping in touch with us so that we can help you along if you need us.

You will feel at least, 50% better, within 30 days. There is hope out here. Don´t give up.

Regards,

Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute
Austin, Texas

location: Schertz, TX

YourQuestion: To Whom It May Concern:

I am a 28 year-old female that has had a problem with swelling in my
legs and fingers since I was 17 years old. At this point in my life it
has hit an extreme level–I can gain 5-7 pounds of “water” in any given
day.

I’ve gotten blood work done. I’ve found out that my liver, kidneys,
gallbladder and thyroid are all “healthy.” I was diagnosed with Celiac
Disease earlier this year. But staying away from gluten has not solved
the problem. I do notice when I eat a strict gluten-free vegan diet and
sweat the swelling is not as bad BUT it does not go away completely.

I do “PMS” a full-week before I start menstruating. My emotions are
“off the charts” the week before my period and my swelling is even
worse.

I think my bleeding is normal. I bleed a full 7 days. And I’m not a
very heavy bleeder, in my opinion.

The swelling is the worst when I’m,
1) Constipated
2) PMSing/Menstruating
3) Stressed
4) Sit down a lot

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time,
Rhonda



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Dear Rhonda,

I´m so sorry that you suffer through this every month. There is no longer any reason for you, or anyone else to have to put up with it. The first thing that I´m going to ask that you do, is go back to the website: www.robyinstitute.com, and read these three sections; in the order that I´m giving them to you. You will understand so much after you do. You will want to try to figure out, why your doctor doesn´t know this, and if he does, indeed, know, why he isn´t sharing it with you and his other patients.

1) Hormone Imbalance. This will explain what is really going on inside of your body, why it is happening, and how we can help you get control of your life, and keep it that way. It is not a disease called celiac, it is a constellation of the symptoms of food allergy. We know that you have a hormone imbalance, just from the symptoms that you´ve given us.

2) Food Allergy. This section will explain about how the things that you eat and drink, can make your symptoms better or worse. Usually worse, if there is too much stress in yout life, if there are things in the air that you are reacting allergically to; there is a reason that this is known as the allergy capital of the world. You will be able to understand about the constellations of symptoms, which some doctors, and/or national associations, give names to, and make them into diseases.

3) Airborne Allergy. This is a good section to tie it all together. We can´t do much about the air that we are forced to breathe outside, but we can certainly use some easily accessible, inexpensive, and incredibly effective control mechanisms that we can use to make and keep our homes as clean as a lab. Right in your shopping center.

Once you have finished reading all of this, you will probably have more questions. Or need some clarifications. Just email me and I´ll walk through this with you. Hormones and allergies are so closely interrelated, that it is difficult to decide where one ends, and the other begins. We find that we get quicker and better results by treating both at the same time.

The second thing that I´m going to suggest, is that you make an appointment with us, now. We have offices in Austin and San Antonio.The phone number to call is: 800-842-6349. The scheduling ladies can email a lab slip, so that you can have the blood test done before you come in for the appointment. You can call the office in ten days or so, and someone will discuss the test results, and what we see as the best options.

We take almost all medical insurance, including M´Care/M´Caid and military, but no one has ever been turned away from our offices, for lack of money.

We are so confident that we can help you, our policy is a ´´satisfaction guarantee“. If we haven´t made you feel significantly better before you leave our office, the visit is at no charge, if you do decide that you would like to try the treatment, and after 6 months, or a year, you decide that you haven´t acheived your goal, all you have to do is ask, and any money that you have paid us will be refunded.

Don´t wait, don´t suffer any more. Let´s get you in here, and get you well.

Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute
Austin, Texas
dorothy.dreux@gmail.com