[Scythian]

This I know for a fact to be true, a quote from the interview:

Trisha: The Morgellons Research Foundation has over 13,561 reported families. Not persons, but families. Oklahoma State University has over 20,000 families registered. About 600 people have reported their disease to me, and some have reported to the CDC. My source at CDC told me that this is the most reported disease entity since the reports of HIV/AIDS. And yet so many people have not reported out of fear. The CDC wants to keep it quiet because they are afraid of mass hysteria and mass pandemonium.

[silverleaf]

creepy...

[PeterPrinciple]

with bugs coming out of his body.

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Almost all the articles state this but give no information. Would think this is easiest thing to document.

[Aggie Mama]

Aside from the bug factor, a lot of these symptoms sounds quite similar to yeast overgrowth issues. How about using Oil of Oregano, Nystatin, or Caprylic Acid?

[ConservativeMind]

Now he has lesions all over his legs, moving into his abdomen with bugs coming out of his body.

So, what “bugs” did they notice? Beetles? Ants? Aliens?

[BuffaloJack]

Mark for later read.

[Air Force Brat]

I’m guessing this ran the day after March 31 last year.

[swain_forkbeard]

“...reaching pandemic status.”

I stopped reading here. I can’t trust whatever the rest of the article says. If it was anything close to a pandemic - say a true epidemic - most people would know somebody with it. Or at least heard of someone with it.

[Borderline]

Thanks for the post. You are brave indeed.

I have a sister who suffers so. She is one of the most brilliant minds you could ever meet, for a year wshe was hardly able to remember if she had a conversation with you and what was said. She has finally found doctors that are willing to tell her she isn’t delusional. Not sure where the ‘delusional’ diagnosis started out, but the doctor(s) who first resorted to it deserve to burn. The pain that ‘go away’ diagnoses has caused is unimaginable. Even a close family friend dermatologist gave that diagnosis as he blew my sister off in her quest for help.

Real work has been proceeding on answering the questions about how, why and where the disease comes from. Every sufferer I have heard tell of had a very complicated medical history. Going to take a lot of work to unravel the physiology and come up with treatments and cures. The mix of symptoms probably means there will be no ‘one solution’ for all sufferers. The answers WILL come though.

Bless you!

[redgolum]

Don't know what to think of this.

There are some who really have a mental, not physical, issue. A doctor acquaintance of mine had a few patients like that, they would always be in worrying about the latest thing they read about.

But there are some people with real issues. Something is going on, or multiple somethings. I suspect that there are many conditions that are getting lumped into this for lack of a better spot to put it.

[spodefly]

I never heard anything of this disease until this thread ... now I feel itchy.

[grellis]

I'm actually somewhat familiar with Morgellons and have been kind of following the story for the past few years. I believe it is real, but I do not believe it is parasitic. I'm no doctor--not at all--but I think it may be some kind of internal mold infection. Such an infection can be damn near impossible to confirm short of exploratory surgery, and if I'm not mistaken, it IS impossible to cure--but it can be controlled, once it is recognized for what it is.

One of my dad's neighbors (a retired surgeon) had a heart transplant about four years ago. Anti-rejection meds, as you know, are immunosupressive. This man had been living with an internal mold infection for God only knows how long (and who really knows how many of us are?). It wasn't until he began taking the AR meds that the infection exploded. Nearly killed him. It was recognized for what it was very quickly, and was addressed in a manner which didn't jeopardize the transplant. Guy is doing very well now, last I heard, but he takes a medicine cabinet full of drugs a couple of times a day.

Next time I talk to my dad I'll get some more details and an update.