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Morgellons: A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria?
Guardian.co.uk ^ | 7 May 2011 | Will Storr

Posted on 05/21/2011 12:57:59 PM PDT by Windflier

It's a mysterious condition that affects tens of thousands worldwide. But what is it?


Optical image of what sufferers are adamant are morgellons fibres in skin samples - ...

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When Paul rubbed his fingertips over the pimples that dotted his skin, he felt spines. Weird, alien things, like splinters.

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What were those curling, coloured fibres? He Googled the words: "Fibres. Itch. Sting. Skin." And there was his answer. It must be: all the symptoms fitted. He had a new disease called morgellons. The fibres were the product of mysterious creatures that burrow and breed in the body. As he read on, he had no idea that morgellons would turn out to be the worst kind of answer imaginable.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: morgellons
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1 posted on 05/21/2011 12:58:00 PM PDT by Windflier
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To: Windflier

Mine went away when I stopped doing meth. But that’s just me.


2 posted on 05/21/2011 1:07:16 PM PDT by bigheadfred (We will never surrender)
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To: Windflier

I have a cousin that claims to have these on his male organ.


3 posted on 05/21/2011 1:09:16 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Windflier

Creepy weird. I almost wish I hadn’t read the article....


4 posted on 05/21/2011 1:18:09 PM PDT by StatenIsland (If we insist that 99 1/2 wonÂ’t do, gotta have a hundred, we will again wind up with zero.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Does he think that’s going to make him more popular?


5 posted on 05/21/2011 1:19:39 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Windflier
Amphetamines cause users to discover this as the disease caused by their long time abuse of speed. The fibers are simply cotton, rayon, nylon, fibers from clothing, sheets & pillow cases, towels, and cotton balls, crusted into the lesions from their constant digging, scratching, and tweezering scabs on their sores. They will not accept the fact however because the nerves in their face are so damaged they feel things crawling, stinging, and itching under their skin.

There has not been a Morgellon's sufferer who's condition has not spontaneously cured itself once they have been fitted with mittens on their hands so they can't dig at their sores.

6 posted on 05/21/2011 1:22:38 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: bigheadfred
Mine went away when I stopped doing meth. But that’s just me.

LOL

For those who have it, Morgellons is no joke. I first heard of this five or six years ago, and have seen tons of articles, and close-up photos of what these folks are complaining about.

7 posted on 05/21/2011 1:22:41 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Your cousin must not be too popular with the ladies (ouch!)


8 posted on 05/21/2011 1:23:53 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: blackdog
Amphetamines cause users to discover this as the disease caused by their long time abuse of speed.

Morgellons sufferers include children and people who've never abused drugs in their lives. How do you explain their conditions?

9 posted on 05/21/2011 1:25:50 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Mental illnesses are not limited to drug addicts.


10 posted on 05/21/2011 1:31:45 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Windflier
I know a person who claimed to have it. Since I have many times injected myself accidentally with Ivermectin while handling livestock with no ill effects, I gave a person who was insane with the belief they had some bizarre form of subcutaneous worms under their skin a bottle with a syringe, and told them to have at it. Ivermectin will take care of any parasite. They claimed it cured them of the worms.

I just gave them mineral oil in an Ivermectin bottle. They had no clue.

11 posted on 05/21/2011 1:32:11 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
I have a cousin that claims to have these on his male organ.

Is he French?

12 posted on 05/21/2011 1:34:00 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Windflier
Ritalin and adderal are amphetamines. There is an underlying psychological condition causing the OCD cutting and picking type behavior which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy with the internet.

Again, there has never been a documented case of Morgellons where the patient has not spontaneously recovered when the hands are covered or restrained from reaching the face or effected area.

Not one.

13 posted on 05/21/2011 1:36:46 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: StatenIsland; AEMILIUS PAULUS; Windflier
Creepy weird. I almost wish I hadn’t read the article....

I have a cousin that claims to have these on his male organ.

Yeah, but now, any time someone catches you scratching...ummm...yourself, you can just tell them "Hey, I have this condition..."

14 posted on 05/21/2011 1:38:10 PM PDT by bigheadfred (We will never surrender)
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To: blackdog

What is your vocation?


15 posted on 05/21/2011 1:39:30 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
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To: Windflier
As an experiment I pulled a fuzzball of lint from my belly button and looked at it under a microscope. The image under the microscope is an exact match to what Morgellons sufferers claim to be the "fibers" from the parasites crawling under their skin.

Either I have an entire colony of well behaved Morellons worms in my navel, or what these people are observing is lint fibers in their crusty lesions, which makes perfect sense if you ever looked at the sticky debris which hardens ito a lesion.

16 posted on 05/21/2011 1:41:29 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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Again, there has never been a documented case of Morgellons where the patient has not spontaneously recovered when the hands are covered or restrained from reaching the face or effected area.

Good to know.

17 posted on 05/21/2011 1:41:36 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Are they sure that they aren't really Langoliers ...?


18 posted on 05/21/2011 1:46:13 PM PDT by BlueLancer (You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there.)
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Are they sure that they aren't really Langoliers ...?

What the heck are those things? Microscopic critters of some sort?

19 posted on 05/21/2011 1:49:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Why? Do you suffer from parasitic psychosis? Study it's causes and you will learn all you need to know.

The profile of a Morellons sufferer is universal right down to the "matchbox" phenomenon.

20 posted on 05/21/2011 1:50:34 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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