[ladycolorado]

From what i have heard so far from those in 100 percent remission, and from my own experience I have a pretty simple idea of two ways to approaching the fighting of this disease. Ones first instinct is to kill off the disease as much as possible. Never seems like it can all be killed, although killing some of it off seems to give relief. Killing it off TOO aggressively or foolishly can actually weaken us, and long term does more harm than good. The key, I think is not so much kill it, but get our bodies back up to the point where it no longer can harm us and we are no longer sensitive to it. A good analogy is being out in the rain with sopping wet clothes vs. warm clothes and a slicker. Morgellons Disease is like driving rain. In the first scenario, we are vulnerable and unprotected and the rain can make us ill. In the second example, we are protected and the rain rolls right off and is unable to harm us. as far as factors, YES they have importance but there are many, as this disease preys on whatever weaknesses it can find. This is why some of our stories differ. One member I have spoken with coined a phrase I really like, which the doc told them that they would be desensitized to Morgellons Disease, this person is currently in 100 percent remission. This wording DOES make sense to me, and also implies a type of "allergic reaction". Some have argument with this idea, but think about this example: one who is not sensitive to strawberries can eat them, while those allergic can get great big hives. Al, YES there is something VERY different about us. In my time in here on a very old thread which search or going through Franky's posts does not pull up is a morgellons study using a medicine Antimony, a medicine for Leishmaniasis to see if it helps because that disease has similarities to Morgellons disease. What happened? ALL 15 DIED. Was it because something was different about us and broke down one too many things in these patients thus they died? Possibly. Antimony is not the best medicine anyway, yet I find it most odd. ??? Anyway these ideas are just what I think based on my observations and what I observe on this message board and hearing what others say when the find their own path out of this mess, (LC).