Post by bernieb on Nov 15, 2018 17:14:14 GMT -5
Hello Everyone, i am a middle aged male. I am disabled due to a number of health issues which I have been dealing with for almost 10 years. To be honest, this new onset of morgellons symptoms have me in such a bad place. I thought my life was bad before this. To be honest I would take all of my other illnesses before accepting this disease. I am dumbfounded by the ignorance and lack of compassion from my doctors on this topic. I have been telling them about what I have been experiencing and they are so dismissive. The first word out of my doctors mouth were "Talk to your psychiatrist". I have dealt with depression for most of my life but never experienced any hallucinations or manifestations. I just want someone to be in my corner. It doesn't help that the CDC's investigation into this disease basically says that I am psychotically manifesting these symptoms. I have never once picked at any scabs or areas of my skin. However i have watched the fibers come out of my skin through a handheld 60x mini microscope that I originally aquired to check jewelry markings on gold and silver due to poor eye sight. As soon as I would feel a bite ( which is actually not a bite) but the body's way of ejecting or rejecting the filaments from under the skin, I would immediately take the microscope and watch it come out. All along I thought it was an external bite. I thought I was going crazy because I never saw an insect of any kind. It wasn't until I did some research that I started to understand what was happening to me. It all started with biting on my feet and around my ankles then it moved to my head. I having been combing out so much foreign microscopic samples from my hair on a daily basis. My doctors are treating this as a fungal infection. It seems as though the fungal shampoo and doxycycline are actually aggrevating my condition but this is the course of treatment I was given. Btw. I spoke with my psychiatrist on this matter and he doesn't know anything about Morgellons. He knows a lot about medications and how to over prescribe though. Please, if anyone has any helpful advise I welcome it. I am three months in, I know that I don't really have the right to complain because there are people out there that have been plagued with this disease for a decade or more. So please forgive me. I feel for anyone who is suffering from this bizarre and unexplained disease.