I do believe once the spectroscopic exam is complete iron and components of its disintegration will be isolated.

I would suggest these fibers be sent to Stanford University (SLAC) for a spin in the linear accelerator. In the 90′s the AIDS virus was accelerated and the findings were quite interesting.
The thermal approach to breakdown the Morgellon fibers has proved fruitless. The acceleration of these fibers will no doubt breach the bonds and the atoms of which they are construct can be isolated.
The findings will no doubt be similar to that of the AIDS virus. Acceleration will breach bonds of all atoms except those with ferromagnetic potential. Iron, nickel, cobalt and an altered carbon will be remaining.

http://lymebusters.proboards39.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=rash&thread=1202247747&page=1

The Process of Washing

The most obvious target of cleansing is the outermost layer of the skin, the keratinizing epithelium. It is a cornified (hardened) cell envelope and it has an extremely tough protein/lipid polymer structure. This hard and lipophilic layer of the epidermis and the surface hairs would not easily retain dirt if it were not for a hydrolipid film that covers the outermost layer of skin and that picks up particles of soil. This natural outer film of lipid entraps and glues environmental dust, pollutants, smoke, keratinous debris, organic and inorganic compounds in sweat, cosmetics, and other substances that come in contact with it. The hair of the scalp (corresponding to a surface area of about 8 square meters, or 86 square feet, for an average female head) is cleansed regularly. The scalp gets coated with sebum, the product of the sebaceous appendages that flows into hair follicles and a natural lubricating oil that contributes luster to the hair, on the one hand, but entraps dirt, on the other.

Washing the skin consists of the removal of the outer layer of grease (lipid) in which the soil (no matter what kind) is embedded. It is a complex physicochemical process that includes the following:

1. A weakening of the binding forces between the keratinized epithelium and the layer of grease via the reduction of the surface tension between the water and the water-resistant oil/grease. Because of this reduced surface tension, water (and surfactant molecules) can penetrate into the finest wrinkles of the skin. In this way, more and more interface is occupied by surfactant, and the adhesiveness of the soil-containing layer is further weakened, a process facilitated by mechanical rubbing.
2. Transfer of portions of the layer of oil to the aqueous vehicle. It is facilitated by the action of the micelles created when the soil was emulsified. The micelles have negatively charged surfaces and are repulsed by the overall negative charge of the keratin of the skin epithelium.
3. Dispersion/suspension of the oil and dirt particles in the soap foam, preventing these particles from being redeposited on the surface.

http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Co-Di/Detergents.html

Now, look at this detailed description on “morgellons” bathing instructions:

http://lymebusters.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board=rash&action=display&thread=1206934773

The biggest news was the 1 1/2 yrs that Wymore thought that the fibers had inter weaving…was an optical allusion….now viewed thru the lighted microscope at the crime lab…

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What’s the difference between “the professional morgellons researchers” and “morgellons patients”? Look at Darrah! The skin’s lipid layer, alone, is “a waxy substance”. He’s clueless, ain’t he? Plus, look how deeply enthralled with the excretory and secretory glands he is, as well as making up goofy new words. This article could assist all of “the experts on morgellons disease”:

Biochemistry of human skin — our brain on the outside…

http://tinyurl.com/2bua46

http://lymebusters.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board=rash&action=print&thread=1206887345

Nothing much new. Mark Darrah reported finding environmental fibers sticking to lesion sites, and some fibers he could not identify.

He said:

I created a stir when I demonstrated the presence of environmental fibers in waxy samples from patents’ skin lesions (obtained directly from them). [...]

My main point was to drive home that there is secretion of a waxy substance eliciting from “vesicles” which I demonstrated from 5 patients with optical ‘scope and SEM. Environmental material is sticking to lesion sites, but I didn’t refute that there are filaments of interest present, much more work is to be done by me and other researchers to identify Morgellons filaments and their nature. But the goo… this may be the onset of the condition, and the culprit of the manifestations. This needs to be determined.

Compare with:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003939.htm

A vesicle is a small fluid-filled blister.

A vesicle is small — it may be as tiny as the top of a pin or up to 5 or 10 millimeters wide.

In many cases, vesicles break easily and release their fluid onto the skin. When this fluid dries, yellow crusts may remain on the skin surface.

Many diseases and conditions can cause vesicles. Some common examples include:

* Allergic reactions to drugs
* Atopic dermatitis (eczema)
* Blistering skin diseases including porphyria cutanea tarda and dermatitis herpetiformis
* Chicken pox
* Contact dermatitis (may be caused by poison ivy)
* Herpes simplex (cold sores, genital herpes)
* Herpes zoster (shingles)
* Impetigo

I’ve had this shit since 1997 – peaked in 1999. It does get better, believe me. It’s in the enviornment, I believe. Getting rid of my carpets helped a whole lot. And no, you are not crazy.

I’m from Ottawa. If you need to contact me, feel free at : instar.ac9z@ncf.ca.

I was a Residential Care Aid and Mental Health Worker and I looked after a girl in the mental health lodge who when I read her medical history it was written she was suspected to have Morgellons Disease ,When I asked my Director of Care she advised me that it was a blood disorder . Needless to say that in itself was not a proper disclosure to me or any of the other workers I bathed this girl for months so I do feel I contracted from her. This was in Kelowna BC. I have since moved and the suffering that has occurred is unbelievable not to mention how the Medical community has failed me.
No one else in my family has contracted this horrible disease thank God!!! I have sores all over my body , Not to mention the pain in my organs,! Sleepless nights ..bad coughs with blood in my sputum, I am unable to work …I have little energy to do anything . I’m now noticing Nerological disorders I trip over my own feet …I bump into things, I drop things when I know I have a good grip on them… I have brain fog as I call it. The psychological feelings that I go through are very disturbing , I’m at my wits end. Even suicide has been a consideration which disturbs me very much!!!! I follow a regiment that takes a lot of my time and money which I fall short of affording!!! The Doctors that I’ve seen disgust me on how they approach this . I have been married 32 yrs this March and my poor partner is also feeling my pain he is worried for me and sometimes ready to just throw in the towel so to speak. I can be available just about anytime for an Interview I’m even willing to be a guiney pig for the Medical community. I”m desperate and feel so alone at times. Treatment what treatment anti psychotic drugs ha what a joke that is definitely not an option! at least not for me. I’m scared to death the symptoms I experience on a day to day basis are serious and I know not normal. I see a Naturalpath at the moment because he is the only one who seems to listen and care .But this needs to be addressed big time before it gets to out of hand i.e. Aides and Hiv remember when that first came about and look now what it has done!!! It’s appalling that these doctors reach for the most ridiculous diagnoses , This is the Technology age for heavens sake they should all wake up and quit turning a blind eye to this… We deserve better .. They can put a man on the moon but when it comes to the unknown they just sluff it off and call us crazy. Well I’m not crazy this is real!!!!

Thank you

Initially I went to my gynocologist who had previously performed 2 c-sections in 1986 and 1991 on me when my daughters were born.I had called his office the night before where the on call Dr. said that the substance since it was the worst on my stomach could be sutures that were trying to make their way out of my skin through the paths of least resistance my stretch marked covered stomach. A foreign body will always try to be rejected by our bodies own defense mechanisms even if it takes years in my case about 7 years since the last c section coupled with losing alot of weight. he advised me to come in and see my own Dr. the following day.

When I recanted what was happening to me the next day to the receptionist she refused to schedule an appointment with my dr. and let the nurse practitioner take a look at me who prescribed itch relief creme and sent me away. That’s why I went to the ER to get some answers through the lab which confirmed many cotton fibers but not the other coffee ground looking or peppercorn looking substances or other fibers found too.

The ER Dr. said that most like the identifiable substance was cotton gauze. Cotton guaze squares used in surgeries including c-sections, that had apparently was left inside my stomach when they stitched me back up after my c-section(s)! I was referred to a top dermatologist who took one look at my medical history and rolled his eyes when I told him my story and gave him the lab results, questioning me as to why I was taking prozac, which I said was for depression, which he rolled his eyes again and loudly proclaimed the lab results as being wrong.

He took his own scraping next to a lesion on my arm (which was normal skin) and said it was hair not cotton gauze. I started crying because he was treating me like I was one of those people who had dreamed it up in my head, Telling me it was nothing, so I pointed to an area to get another scraping and after he looked at it under a microscope like he did the other sample he didn’t have a clue what the fiberous substance was.His diagnosis was that I was delusional and needed to go back to my Psch. even though you could see lesions with weird stuff coming out all over me. I left humiliated and upset.

About a week later I visited my regular general practioner who questioned my prozac didn’t even examine me and wrote me a prescription for some creme that seamed to turn my skin to paper making the already never healing lesions worse. I returned to the dr. a year later which he refused to see me even after getting the lab results from the hospital and his nurse practitioner did not examine me. While in the hallway wrote another script for that same creme saying it was scabies. I know what scabies are because I had scabies after living in a dorm situation in 1982. I did not have scabies. I changed to a different general practitioner last year who did nothing but glance at me and I was completely covered by clothes no lesions were visible. She wrote a prescription for creme and said it would go away within a week.

Well the lesions have not gone away. They don’t ever heal, you have to shower and wear clothes which is painful.The Feeling of being in a fog is not too bad and the chronic fatigue is tolerable. The vision problems is troubling, blurry and reading small print requires magnification. The few lesions on my neck front and back and on the top of my head make a crackle sound when I move around. Lesions on the base of my spine pop and crack too when i move around. I have lesions below my knees and scars so dresses are not an option. Lesions around the inside of my elbow give the wrong impression.

Family members don’t even acknowledge this as real and don’t speak to me cause they think I’m crazy even though they have seen the fiberous lesions. My family convinced my ex husband and the court I was delusional and too mentally ill to care for my children and that the lesions were a nervous disorder brought on by mental illness even though I worked full time and shared a loving relationship with my girls! I lost custody of them. Even my actual medical history records would have been used against me since all the dr’s have said I’m delusional.

I hope and pray there is an answer soon. I detailed my experience here on line so anyone who is considering getting help will be forewarned of the common reactions that most us sufferers have had to contend with. The medical community as a whole does not welcome us with open arms but look down their noses at us especially if there is any mental illness.It does seem to matter if you have success with medication and it is under control.In the meantime I will not consult any more Dr’s regarding this controversial condition. I will keep on spreading the word that it is real and not imagined.

People often interpret what they see in different ways. While the things you extract might look like worms, it’s most likely that they are not. Even dried up, worms are generally identifiable. Probably what you have is a symptom of something else. It might not even be a symptom of your main illness.

Talk to your doctor, and please be willing to try new treatments that the doctor might suggest.