Jeffery W LaMour, D.P.M.,PA

Well, I’ll try to make a very long story short. First off, don’t bother with laser treatment for toe nail fungus, it doesn’t work. My big toe on my left foot started to turn yellow on the corner after an injury where the nail almost came off about 5 years ago. I took care of it for many years and the fungus never really spread. Well, I decided to go in and have laser treatment done. He quoted me $ 900 dollars to treat the ONE toe. He told me that he would have to treat the other four on the same foot just to make sure (there’s nothing wrong with them), but I said fine. I came in the following week, he shaved my entire big toe down, which is what I think eventually caused the problem I have now, and did the laser treatment which took about 15 mins. He explained to me that I would need to put this nail ointment on it everyday twice a day, which I did religiously. He told me to come back in three months. In three months I come back and you can tell it’s beginning to spread to the bottom of my toenail. They even compared the before and after pics and it was very noticeable. He told me to continue doing what I was doing and come back in another three months. I come back and the toenail is completely yellow and coming off. He questioned whether I was using the ointment, in which I told him I never miss a day. He looked perplexed and told me to buy some over the counter Lamisil cream and use that on my nail and come back in three months!
I came back and it was clear that I was in much worse shape. My nail was thick yellow and the fungus had worked it’s way down to the cutical.
I asked him if we could do another treatment and he said that would cost another 4 – 500 dollars. I asked him what my other options were and he told me take a pill which may work, but I have to take a test to see if my liver can handle it, laser it again, remove the nail, or just walk away!!! After consideration, I said, «well, let’s remove it then». He told me that would be an addition 3-​$ 400 dollars for a 15 in procedure. He then rushed me out and told me to think about it and call him back.
Well, I’ve called his office 6 times and have left 6 messages with his staff, all of which said they’d have him call me back. No call. The last call I told them that I would lilke half my money back since my situation iis much worse and I’m out $ 1000. They told me if I understand that there’s no guarantee’s in medicine!
So I guess I’m out $ 1000 with a situation much much worse off. At least before the procedure it was just slightly discolored, now it’s thick and half way fallen off.