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Morgellons Disease: Is It Real?
image Sufferers of Morgellons disease complain of invisible parasites biting their skin. And they get skin lesions from which sprout strange fibers. And mysterious black spore-like specks appear on their skin. Cases of this strange disease seem to be spreading, especially in the Bay area. One theory is that it has something to do with Lyme disease. Or it may be a case of mass delusion. The medical community seems to think it's mass delusion. Most people who show up complaining of these symptoms get diagnosed with 'delusional parasitosis', which is a psychological problem in which people imagine that they're infested by parasites. Not having any medical qualifications at all, I won't weigh in on whether this is a real disease or mass delusion, but some of the behavior of the patients does sound suspiciously bizarre. Take the case of Theresa Blodgett:

She gathers up the black specks, the mysterious fibers and the small, fuzzy 'cocoons' she finds on her skin and around her home. She tapes the macabre samples to typing paper, but she said no doctor will analyze the collection. Physicians who glance at the specimens dismiss the lot as stray hairs, clothing fibers, scabs and other common household debris, she said.

So either she really is suffering from something and is desperately but unsuccessfully trying to get doctors to pay attention to her, or she's obsessively collecting house dust and stray flecks of dirt and convincing herself that these things are parasites attacking her. (Thanks to 'K' for the links)
Categories: Health/Medicine, Psychology
Posted by Alex on Thu Feb 10, 2005
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Posted by helper  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  09:24 AM
Rod... I will say, though, that I am a big fan of Steve Martin and Theodoric of York (who I've quoted myself on may occasions) and his 'bloodlettings'......so maybe we're not so far off afterall. I also know about all the "kids" books written by/on drug influence (Wiz of OZ-poppy fields-, Alice, the Golden Hare, etc...)Has anyone read Shirlock Holmes "the 10% solution"? 10% solution was the mixture percentage of cocaine he injected. It's no wonder he was such a good detective! I'll bet not a single meaningless clue slipped by him!lol ...and Dr. Jekyl sounds like a friend of mine. Tinctures? Absynth? Ahhh yes...those were the days. In those days, babys were given morphine "baby drops" to 'quiet' and 'sooth' the toddler.......lucky babies.
Posted by helper  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  09:36 AM
sorry. i thought this was a forum for people with morgellons or odd skin conditions. I just took offense to his cold reaction when many people are looking for help with this condition and "Rod" made it look like 'losing $35' was a reason to avoid my advice.
As far as me being a 'spammer".How would i be spamming by registering under my company name (global software) and posting something about medicine? We sell software...not medicine. And I got my product from an obscure lab i found during my year long research. I simply forgot their email address and url. i can tell this place isni't much for helping folks. lol
I found this forum checking on the updated research on morgellons and accompanying "black speck" condition. I t hought I saw some intelligent conversation about the sibject but maybe I was wrong.
Posted by helper  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  09:48 AM
Rod... I will say, though, that I am a big fan of Steve Martin and Theodoric of York (who I've quoted myself on may occasions) and his 'bloodlettings'......so maybe we're not so far off afterall. I also know about all the "kids" books written by/on drug influence (Wiz of OZ-poppy fields-, Alice, the Golden Hare, etc...)Has anyone read Shirlock Holmes "the 10% solution"? 10% solution was the mixture percentage of cocaine he shot. no wonder he was such a god detective! lol
Posted by helper  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  09:49 AM
Helper, this is a place for helping people avoid getting scammed or hoaxed. It's not a place for helping them get medicine of dubious efficacy.

In fact, you still haven't been able to specify what this mystery medicine is. Why do you insist that they contact you privately? That seems fishy to me.
Posted by The Curator  in  San Diego  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  10:10 AM
I wonder if 'Helper' could be associated with the same 'Global Software' that runs the Global Software International Lottery scam.
http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/best-forestry/2003-12/msg00001.html

I think I'm going to remove his email address again.
Posted by The Curator  in  San Diego  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  10:17 AM
i can't believe how this has turned out. it seems like I've entered the "paranoia room". I can understand this little more now since I know it's for helping people to "not get scammed". There's nothing wrong with 'not knowing' where I got something. What's fishy about that? My memory is not what it used to be. As for why I placed the note here....I found this place while searching for updates on the condition and thought I could help some people who have been recently been affected. I guess I should have looked into the postings a little more. For that i'm sorry however.... the fact remains that I had the condition very bad and it really messed my life up. I owe it all to an organic powder which contained a small percentage of diatomaceous earth. As for the rest of the contents...i really don't know and at the time truly did not care. I was to the point where i was going to spray RAID all over my body. I'm a regular clean person but not a compulsive cleaner. The way this stuff took over my body in one day and started causing little white granules (fungal colonies), black shiny specks (unknown), fibers and weird hairs, to 'pop' and come out of my skin pores was very terrifying. I started taping them to slides and photographing them to slides. let me know if you'd like to see the images. I came to the conclusion that its definitely a strange bug or fungus/bacteria or a new & imossible life-form made up of both. Microscope images revealed "egglike" clusters (mite eggs?)on hair shafts yet only very minor signs of mites. There are millions of species of bugs- any of which could have mutated over the years into a creature capable of this. there's a documentary about the microscopic life found in your home. Ex...The life on the top of a pencil in your desk drawer, bacterial lifeforms which literally travel in pieces of food found on your kitchen floor. Fiber worm/bugs which attach other fibers onto their back to fend off prey in their microscopic universe. There are universes on cd covers, magazine pages, on the heads of other bugs, on doorknobs and so on. Electron microscopes show mites on top of mites which have predators living on them with bacterias on top of other life....it goes on and on. We don't study that universe as much......so who knows what has evolved? We as a human civilization are only about a hundred years- We know practically nothing of the world....not to mention the microscopic world! Who knows what's going on down there? These diseases, bugs, bacterias, and lifeforms lived in various & remote areas of the earth. Modern travel and development has brought everything together to add to it's rapid evolution. This is no scam...this is very real. As far as what cured my condition? I used a lot of stuff but I only noticed an mprovement when i used the "mystery powder". I've also heard of the lyme disease research/treatment and how it has helped this type of patient. What the hell is it? i still want to know!
Posted by helper  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  11:15 AM
Ahh, where to start, where to start.

The following are not quotes, but just lay out the form of "helper"'s argument...

"But it's just $35!. Let people spend it if they want!"
"I bought all new clothes to try to get rid of a skin disease."
"You've ruined peoples lives by telling them this may be a scam."
"Now I'm questioning you as to what you believe in, as I've already read everything that you wrote, but seemed to have missed that part"

"Uh, oh, I just had a thought... maybe you do indeed do research and generally have a clue what you're talking about, and can defend yourself. I'd better buddy up to you by trying to identify with you so you don't do this to me, because if you look for my company, you'll find one with the same name that's been involved in fraud."

"I thought that there was an intelligent discussion going on here. I read it all and posted anyway but only realized that you people were all stupid when you started to disagree with me. But I honestly read the whole thing before I posted in the first place, and only you pointing out possible fraud makes me think you are unintelligent."
"How can I be spamming? All I'm doing is giving out info on something that it looks like I'm trying to sell. Totally innocent, be I."

😕

Now, helper, before you bother to reply, understand that your rants are ways to easily destroy any shred of credibility that you have left. You've already destroyed most of it yourself.

In the future though, if you continue to post, I'll just help you out a little.
Or a lot, depending on how I feel at the moment.
Posted by Rod  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  11:31 AM
I have not read the last post of helper's right above my last post. It was published as I was typing, so it's not included in the progression.

I won't bother to tear it down unless he replies to my last post and continues to show his intelligence level.
Posted by Rod  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  11:34 AM
Lottery scam? What the hell? i think you guys are a little paranoid! Is this the crack smoking room?

uh oh...."he said "hell"...... He MUST be the devil!!!!! he said "crack"! he must be a crackhead! Wait...maybe he's the DEA posing as a crackhead to catch us.....wait a minute....he said "us!!!!!!! oh my god....Is he us?

I'm outta' here!
Peace
Posted by helper  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  11:51 AM
:lol: OMG...ROFLOL... :lol:

Calm yourselves children!
I leave the room for one minute and you act up something awful. Shame on you!

Now, I'm am NOT a paranoid person. I know how to set up an email address to receive "SUSPICIOUS" email. Not that I DO think it "suspicious". I would like to know about this powder before my mother LOSES HER NOSE!!! 😖



I still think Rod is an awesome person despite what ALL of you say! 😡


He just needs guidance and direction...he is one of the few people I know that would be one of the smartest people I know except that maybe he IS too educated.
But, that's a good thing, right???

I am proud to see the CDC is at least recognizing Morgellons now and telling folks to seek treatment with their doctor.
I'm glad you posted that.

My mom's dropped in...
later
😡
Posted by jaleenasmom  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  04:23 PM
This site is about hoaxes or scams?

WHICH???
Posted by jaleenasmom  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  04:24 PM
"I'm outta' here!
Peace"

Wise decision, helper.
Posted by Rod  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  05:54 PM
jaleenasmom, don't you think that if "helper" was on the level and had read through all of this thread, as he said, that he would have gone to the morgellons.org website and tried to offer his help there?

He knows (if he read the thread, like he claims) that the site exists and that it is a gathering point for morgellons sufferers.

And, as Bartles and Jaymes used to say "...and we thank you for your support."
😉
Posted by Rod  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  06:30 PM
🐛 Duh on me! The logic you have used there my dear Rod is absolutely undeniable! If anyone found something that had actually worked, they would be shouting it from the rooftops!!!!
If a doctor saves your life, you never forget his name...if a powder does...you know what I mean.

I did, however, find his "paranoia" outburst hilarious!

""uh oh...."he said "hell"...... He MUST be the devil!!!!! he said "crack"! he must be a crackhead! Wait...maybe he's the DEA posing as a crackhead to catch us.....wait a minute....he said "us!!!!!!! oh my god....Is he us?""


Little does he know I was married to a Narcissitic and Paranoid man, which I nearly let take my sanity. He threatened to kill me if I ever left him, and then the next week he gave me the boot; the next morning he was begging me not to go, but I had to! He agreed to go 1 time to a marriage counselor and I thought she was going to choke him in the first 15 minutes!
Live and learn...

From what I understand, Ted Bundy, and Scott Peterson are narcissitics too.

OMG!!! Are you keeping up with the Terri Schiavo case???
I am SICK SICK SICK about it. Too much conflicting testimony to put an innocent person to death! I think it's murder. I am appalled by what this country's judicial system has come to.
If this woman were lying there just looking at the ceiling and nothing else, it would be different. A tape of her saying "yeah" was played on Fox News tonight. It was quiet obivious she was conversing with her father.
These people just want to take care of their daughter; her hubby just wants her gone.
I believe that if someone does not want to be kept artificially alive and there is a will that states such, then by all means carry through with their wishes. If not, it better be emperical proof, as you always say, that they will never recover and that they are indeed brain dead.
This woman is not brain dead. I have seen brain dead many times.
She is not.
I have had to make that decision in my life. Whether to "pull the plug" or not. But in my case there was no feeding tube. There was ventilator and means, such as drugs to keep the blood pressure up, and her heart pumping. She WASN'T there. No response. Never did she open her eyes again. Terri has no machines...just food and water through a tube...we all need food and water to sustain life...not everyone needs help breathing and keeping their heart going.


By the way, Victoria, the lady posting with us earlier and got fed up with you sent me an email saying that when her doctor's lab COULD NOT identify what kind of bateria was infecting her skin, they forwarded the samples, etc. to the National Institute of Health (NIH) and some lab in the Army.

BOOM! NIH is now involved. Can the CDC be far behind???

I loved Bartles and Jaymes commercials. Wonder what happened to them???
Posted by jaleenasmom  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  10:16 PM
Doctor Jaleenasmom: I need to know a great favor. If you do this for me, Raoul The Loyal One, I shall be forever in your debt, and all that I have is yours. Please answer my dire question: Is the angle of incidence truly equal to the angle of reflection? Also, I have had a problem with applying too much torque in certain positions. I tend to overcompensate for partners with less stamina than myself, and I wear them out frequently. Any suggestions? Rrrrraoul
Posted by Raoul  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  10:28 PM
Rrrrrraaaaaoooooouuuuuuullllllllll...
😛
OH! My loyal one who shall be forever in my debt!
I will not require of thee thy worldly possesions.
T'would be a cruel thing to take all a man has worked for in my kingdom!

The Law of Reflection is one of the simplest rules in our science.
It states that when an object bounces off a flat surface, the angle it at which it hits the surface will be equal to the angle at which it bounces away!

The angle at which the object hits the flat surface is called the angle of incidence.

The angle at which it rebounds from the flat surface is called the angle of reflection.

Under ideal conditions, the angle of incidence always equals the angle of reflection!

My dear jester, the "ideal conditions" first has to be determined in what state you are wherewith.

Too much torque in certain positions will create a detriment for your "ideal conditions", therefore, the angle of incidence MAY NOT equal the angle of reflection! This is simply demonstrated with a game of pool.
I think your "overcompensation" for your partners is your urgent need to be fulfilled and desperation sets in. This would wear anyone out who does not understand the angle of I can be equal to the angle of R.

To answer your dire question; no, not always as conditions change with different angels of I, which may not be an "ideal condition".

I wouldn't worry with wearing out my partners if I were you. Partners come and go, but the Law of Reflection will always be with you!

Go in peace and be happy! I only require of thee thy firstborn...
Posted by jaleenasmom  on  Thu Mar 31, 2005  at  10:58 PM
Ha! That's good.
Posted by Rod  on  Thu Mar 31, 2005  at  11:18 PM
:ahhh:
Posted by jaleenasmom  on  Fri Apr 01, 2005  at  10:06 PM
:gulp:
Posted by Hairy Houdini  on  Fri Apr 01, 2005  at  10:12 PM
I know I said I was not going to post here anymore, but I feel it is significant to report what happened when I went to the Lyme Specialist for the first time on 3/31/05.

I saw one of the nurse practioners. She spent about an hour asking me all kinds of questions about my symptoms, etc. I backed all the way up to two years ago when I first began to show some of the very first symptoms of Lyme Disease. (Although I did not even have a clue what Lyme Disease was back then. I started with a rash behind my ear that would not clear up. Then the flash of lights behind my eyes and then the awful
migraines and then the frustrating floaters that followed. I showed her all past medical records that documented all the different symptoms as they occured, including the vertigo, muscle twitches in limbs, face, especially under my left eye, sometimes the right one too.)Anyway, the list goes on and on, then we came to the skin lesions, itching, crawling stinging sensations, etc. I mentioned finding the fibers all over my house, especially in my bathroom and on my body.
She also examined my lesions.
She then told me that there was a rare, but newly emerging disease that was being called Morgellons!!!!
I told her I was VERY familiar with Morgellons and then went on to tell her about discovering the video showing pictures of people out in California who had sores that looked just like mine and who were suffering from the same symptoms!
She said, "Well, the research into this is all new, but supposedly the disease has been around for a long time, (like back into the 1600's I said and she nodded her head "Yes.") The she said, "AND ALL OF THIS HAS VALIDITY!" She also went on the tell me that none of what I was telling her was OUTLANDISH and that I was NOT CRAZY or DELUSIONAL! I was estatic to hear those words! She said she has a good friend in Texas who is a practitioner who is treating patients with the same symptoms.
She also went on to say she would be very surprised if I tested negative for Lyme and she ordered a barage of tests for Lyme, Lupus, thyroid, Babesiosis, Bartonella, Erlichiosis, etc. on and on! They took about 21 vials of blood!
So now I wait for 6 weeks for all of the results.
To all of you other "Morgellons" sufferers out there...OUR DAY IS COMING, when we will be able to hold our heads high and no longer feel reluctant to go to a doctor, ashamed because someone has labeled us "DELUSIONAL" and be able to get properly diagnosed and properly treated!
(Can anyone give me an AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Posted by Victoria Moore  on  Sat Apr 02, 2005  at  08:58 AM
Denial is cowardice.

Morgellons 'is as real as a heart attack' and every other major organ failure. Because, that is what can occur in Morgellons' sufferers. The parasitic organism permeates the entire body.

By denying it as unreal, you are propagating it to untold numbers of people.

What would you, other than contracting it yourself, accept as proof of this heinous disease?
Posted by Prudent  on  Sun Apr 03, 2005  at  01:35 PM
Absolutely, Prudent. I truly do not wish this disease on anyone, but to the doubters and skeptics about the validity of this thing being called Morgellons, that might be what it takes to have a reality check.
Progress is being made though for some answers.
Posted by Victoria Moore  on  Sun Apr 03, 2005  at  01:44 PM
:coolsmile:
PRUDENT!!!

Where did you come from???

Lyme disease...Morgellons...Lyme...Morgellons...

I see a pattern...
Posted by jaleenasmom  on  Sun Apr 03, 2005  at  06:13 PM
Jaleenasmom...I saw this site listed on my new Netscape browser. It's insulting to see this disease being touted as a hoax. Esp. since it's killing me.
Posted by Prudent  on  Sun Apr 03, 2005  at  07:29 PM
:gulp:
Tell me more...killing you???

My mom's extremely uncomfortable with this stuff. So far I don't have any lesions, etc.

What's your symptoms? What's your doc say?
Posted by jaleenasmom  on  Sun Apr 03, 2005  at  09:53 PM
New Morgellons article. Well, April 2nd, anyway.

No new info in it, though, except that someone apparently believes it's an alien infection from meteorites from Mars.

The rest is nothing new.
Posted by Rod  on  Tue Apr 12, 2005  at  03:15 PM
Actually, there is quite a bit that is new about Morgellons.
Posted by Victoria Moore  on  Tue Apr 12, 2005  at  07:07 PM
If you read my post, it says that there is nothing new IN THE ARTICLE.

As for there being more new stuff on Morgellons, would you care to elucidate?
Posted by Rod  on  Tue Apr 12, 2005  at  07:42 PM
This for starters:

http://64.26.27.65/video/expanded.asp?ID=1844
Posted by Victoria Moore  on  Tue Apr 12, 2005  at  08:54 PM
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