But the ones who believe in it have added in WAY too many symptoms now….everything from the initial fibers, to little animals living in their noses, thru their DNA changing to plant-like biology, & including little thingies that supposedly can’t be pulled out of the body by a Mack truck.

This is the very reason the Morgellons community isn’t being taken serious by those who have the knowledge & resources to do something about it. Morgellons has turned into pretty much a cult, with rabid followers who won’t accept ANY answer other than the one they want to hear.

And the saddest part is that people with REAL & ALREADY KNOWN diseases often fall easily for their rants & conspiracys…..when they could most likely find a cure for whatever disease they DO have by using resources other than the Morgellons forums.

I wish you well Gillian. You have ups and downs, and I just hope the future holds more ups for you.

The CDC do NOT investigate ‘unshakeable” beliefs.

Michael,

Is there any news from the CDC in the US newspapers at present.

Thanks
Gillian.

No one has a problem with psoriasis, toenail fungus, athletes foot and crotch rot, and of course eczema, all of which are caused by organisms, and all of which get under the skin. Obviously any infection caused by a fungus or bacteria or virus is caused by a living creature, which treatment is designed to kill so that the symptoms of their presence will go away.

Even scabies, though it is handled hush hush, and lice, the same, carry less stigma than morgellons.

This seems to be the only one of all of these in which if a patient
1) describes symptoms,
2) has been desperate enough/had the initiative to learn about their condition to the best of their ability,
3) hopes their personal research will aid the doctor in diagnosing them properly and eliminating the torture, and
4) genuinely asks for help,
then the patient is considered to be
a) presumptuous (the nerve, trying to figure out for themselves what they had before dealing with the expensive and convoluted medical system).
b) stupid for the same basic reason,
c) inflexible because they do not think that they are crazy, and, of course,
d) crazy
is treated in anything like this fashion. It is tantamount to having back pain that no one can find a reason for. The person is still hurting, even if other people cannot figure out why.
This institutional disparity is no more than institutional discrimination on the basis of the person’s belief that they may have morgellons because their symptoms seem to match a list of symptoms others experience.
And institutional discrimination is just as wrong, even when so well established, as personal discrimination.
What really really gets me is that I don’t understand the fuss. Is there a site like this for the other maladies mentioned above? Is there a scabies, psoriasis, lice, eczema watch blog?
Why, oh why, do you give a hoot?
I will leave you with this thought: Remember the question about whether the tree made a sound if no one was there to hear it fall?
Well, the answer is this:
The tree made a sound when it fell, whether we heard it or not.
And it sure as heck fell.
katiejill

(1) a cottony white ovoid shape. Egg probably. This does not have anything but a cottony texture, no “spaghetti legs” or thready looking things coming out of it.

(2) the life cycle seems to have options at the next stage. Not sure if it is a response to external stimuli that determines which, but here are the two versions I see.

(a) Usually the next thing that happens is that some clear and some tinted “spaghetti legs” (thready looking things) start growing out of the ovoid shape. Some but not all of the “legs” have “feet” similar to those on a gun tripod, and also flat bottomed. These usually have at least a little red at the foot end, sometimes the red extends the full length of the “leg” which may (or may not) indicate that these are used for feeding, though if so, I’m not sure how they get to the blood.

(b) Very rarely one of the cottony eggs will sprout two stiff little (whiskers? swords? barbels?) on either side of one end of the cottony ovoid (egg?). In each case that I have seen this, I found the critter when it was delivering a particularly vicious biting attack (on me, of course) and, since I do not know for sure that the egg can deliver an attack.

I am falling asleep while I’m typing. I will try to pick this up again in a couple of days. Thanks again, Michael, for this forum, and thanks to the others for helping me home in on what this might be.