Steven Erlemeier, MD

Dr. Erlemeier was amazing with my son. He was very kind and understanding making a great experience.
Dec 5th, 2023

Horrible experience, poor bedside manners, rude and completely missed my diagnosis causing severe pain and unnecessary hospitalization afterwards. Look elsewhere.
Oct 8th, 2023

Definitely less than thrilled with him. I went to see him about a mass in my brain and the onset of seizures. And he said it's nothing to worry about. After seeing a neurosurgeon I found out it was a tumor. And Dr Erlemeier still said not to do anything. After consulting several neurosurgeon's I decided to go with surgery. Good thing I did as it was a cancerous tumor. Dr Erlemeier still wasn't happy with my decision. Not to mention he doesn't respond to phone calls or the portal messages I sent. He did respond to some but I still have messages he has not responded to.
May 8th, 2023

He did nothing for me. And I have never been treated so poorly by a healthcare professional. Went to him for headaches and DDD in Cervical Spine, but I should have saved myself half a day of sick leave from work. He literally told me that the neck and back problems I have are caused by the "extra weight I am carrying around" (Really, I had no idea I am overweight!). He has no bedside manner! He said "You have a bed right? You have a floor right? You have a kitchen counter right? When you are cooking dinner for your kids, you need to be doing leg lifts at the counter. When you are taking laundry out of the dryer you should be doing push ups on the dryer. Watching TV, sit on the floor where you can exercise. Everything you pass in your home you need to make an exercise out of because saying you are overweight because you are in pain doesn't cut it. People who are overweight can always exercise. Then when I got upset because he told me that there was nothing wrong with my Lumbar Spine X-Rays (Scoliosis/Severe Disc Compression T12-L1,L1-L2,L3-L4,L4-L5) He said he was just going to stand there and think of a way to respond so that I felt like he was agreeing with me that my imaging was not normal. I almost started crying. He did nothing for my headaches either. He wanted me to quit taking most of my medications for 2 weeks including my Cancer meds and blood pressure meds. He told me to quit drinking caffeine and start taking Nodoz instead. He asked at the end if I felt like I needed another visit with him, and I said "No! There is NO REASON I need to see YOU again!" He is a quack!
Apr 4th, 2023

My daughter has Arnold Chiari Malformation. She was born with it. She has been to countless Neurologists starting as a baby at Childrens Hospital in Seattle. I dont know why they didnt see she was born with it because she was admitted in the hospital under constant supervision at age 4 for 10 days under 24 hour ICU care with camera & probes hooked up all over her head which monitored her visually & her brain waves constantly recoreded the 10 days she was admitted. She had seizures several times a day everyday to which they put her on anti-convulsive medications. Later she was taken off them. At age 17 she started having horrible headaches, burning sensation in her head, neck, down her arms, hands, fingers. Dizziness, unbalanced, white spots before her eyes. She was yelling & moaning in pain. In 2013 she had brain surgery because her brain had slipped down below her skull cavity and was laying and putting pressure on her spinal cord in her neck which caused fluid on her spinal cord. The doctor made an incision on the back middle of her head , opened her skull, removed the first 4 vertebraes in her neck which then caused her brain to automatically slide upward into the base of her skull where it should naturally be. The surgery is supposed to have a 80% success rate. The MRI shows the surgery was an success because her brain now fits inside the base of her skull which now relieves pressure on her spinal cord, therefore no more fluid in her spine. The surgery did what it was supposed to do but it did not take any of the symptoms or pain away as the other 80% of patients did. My daughter has been to countless doctors, tried all kinds if procedures to relieve the agony she feels everyday . Dhes had Botox treatments all over her head, neck, shouldres, face, shot given in her legs, physical therapy, Chiropractic care, every muscle relaxer drug, seizure medication which sometimes helps for chronic migraines, opioids she oit grew which she no longer takes because they stopped working. She finally saw this doctor today and he took a ton of time with her. Listened to everything we said. Showed a lot of interest, throughly examined her. He concluded we have done everything as parents we could have and still do for her but could only give suggestions that might help her. He was genuinely interested and cared for her. Thats more than i can say for the majority of her past doctors. Even though our daughter continues to be in terrible pain we rate him a 5 star for trying.
Apr 1st, 2023