Hydration and B12, if they fit.
IV therapy puts fluids and vitamins into a vein through a drip; a B12 injection puts one vitamin into the muscle. Whether either is a fit depends on your health history.
- Category
- Wellness
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
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In plain terms
What it is
Kalina offers two things in this category: IV therapy, which is fluids and vitamins given through a drip in the office, and vitamin B12, given as an injection. Paulina Munoz, FNP-BC, reviews your health history before either one is discussed. She is a nurse practitioner rather than your primary care physician, and this is the category where she most often says a conversation with your own doctor comes first.
Who tends to ask
Is it right for you?
Feeling run down has a long list of possible causes, and an IV or a vitamin injection is not a substitute for medical evaluation. Paulina asks what your primary care provider has already checked, and what came back. Start there rather than with a service name.
What are you noticing, and roughly how long has it been going on?
What evaluation or guidance have you already received?
What would an informed and appropriately cautious next step look like?
How the visit runs
What to expect
Paulina asks what you're noticing, how long it has been going on, and what your primary care provider has already looked at. An IV is given through a drip in the arm while you sit in the office. A B12 injection is intramuscular and takes one appointment. Where that conversation goes depends on the answers.
You describe what you have noticed and what prompted you to ask about an IV or about B12.
Paulina goes through your health history and what you are already taking.
You leave knowing whether either service is a reasonable fit, or whether it is not.
Being straight with you
Realistic expectations
Both are ways of delivering something into the body, not treatments for a symptom on their own, so what prompted the question matters more here than which of the two you asked about. Paulina tells people to speak to their physician first more often in this category than in any other, and she says so in the room rather than after a booking.
Your next step
Ready when you are?
Reach Kalina directly for current appointment availability and next steps.
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