 Symptom List
Morgellons Disease Symptoms List Head - Bumps, lumps, lesions or "channels" on head
- Headaches
Brain and Personality - Memory loss (short term, recent memory - "What was I saying?
- Where did I put my coffee mug? What did I do yesterday?")
- Brain fog - groggy, unclear thinking
- Thought processing becomes very taxing, difficult
- Unable to think of specific words when communicating
- Writing, and especially spelling, becomes difficult
- Inability to focus or concentrate - ADD/ADHD symptoms
- Mood disorders and mood swings, including loss of temper
- Libido - lack of
- Loss of interest in things that normally interest you
- Depression and/or confusion or disorientation
- Personality changes, like loss of creativity or loss of existing skills
- Neurological problems - clumsiness, stumbling while walking, impeded speech
Hair - Hair appearance - stiff, brittle and dry
- Wiry, uncontrollable hairs replace normal hair
- Hair texture and color may change as more "wiry" ones grow in
- Hair loss
- Small glob of clear sticky substance at root end of hair when it falls out,
- substance may coat hair shaft
- Hair color does not adhere well to new hair growth
Eyes - Floaters on eyeball surface
- Loss of visual acuity
- Increase in discharge, often stringy
- Sandy or gritty feeling in eyes
- Feeling of foreign objects in eyes but cannot locate or remove
- Eyes are extra-sensitive to light
- Eyesight is generally weakened
- Night blindness
- Eyelashes fall out, may be replaced with thick, wiry discolored lashes
Ears - Ears itch as motile fibers move inside
- Ears ring or beep (but ears are clean)
- Ears become clogged due to sinus drainage
- Ears develop excess thick hair which may emerge from inside ear and feel very deep-rooted
Nose - Allergies or sinus problems - excessive congestion, mucus production
- Mucus is thick, stringy, cohesive, dries into very hard substance -
- almost glue-like
- Scents are not perceived correctly, may fluctuate from keen sensing ability
- to no ability to perceive any scent at all
- Nostrils develop excess thick hair
- Nostrils develop very sore pimples
Mouth & Throat - Teeth become sensitive, crack, chip, feel like they're becoming hollow
- Teeth become loose and/or fall out
- Sore or tickling throat
- Hacking cough
- Constant sinus drainage
- Glob of congestion always hanging at back of throat
- Taste buds malfunction, may fluctuate from keen tasting ability
- to having no taste perception at all
Skin - Crawling feeling on the skin, like invisible bugs
- Pinching, biting, stinging or prickling on the skin
- Lesions - itchy, sore or painful, very slow-healing with little or no infection,
- sometimes containing "fuzz"
- Crusts/scabs/callus-like formations on lesions - painful and difficult to remove because of
- tentacles clinging to flesh
- Open cuts or wounds - very slow healing with little or no infection, sometimes containing"fuzz"
- Objects described as "granules," hard and crystal-like, similar in size and shape to sand grains, can occasionally be removed, or can emerge from either broken or intact skin
- Objects described as "shards," hard and crystal-like that are similar to glass that emerge from skin
- Black seed-like "specks" or "dots" on, or in, the skin or emerging from lesions
- Tiny "fuzzballs" in the lesions, emerging from lesions, and on (or falling from) intact skin
- Black tar-like substance coming from skin pores
- Skin texture - leathery, callus-like areas often where lesions had previously been located
- Growth of new wiry or thick hair over the top of where lesions had previously been
- Pimples - sore, long-lasting, can't squeeze out - contents are removed in same fashion as a splinter and are moist but cohesive
- Rashes - unusual, appear/disappear rapidly for no apparent reason, also appear where adhesive portion of Band-Aid is applied
- Skin pigment changes (gets lighter or darker, more difficult to see in fair skin tones)
- Stationary or 'creeping' worm or wire-like structures can be seen just beneath the skin surface
- Skin loses its elasticity and appears to sag, especially when warm, less so when cold
Body - Cannot sense temperature of water - water is very hot and it is not recognized
- Alert!! This is very important if you have young children or animals that you bathe.
- Alcohol/liquor intolerance
- Appetite decrease or increase
- Weight loss or weight gain
- Food cravings or total lack of interest in food
- Gastrointestinal problems
- Swelling or edema, including breast edema, feet especially known for swelling
- Back ache - lower back
- Back pain - neck and shoulder pain
- Chronic fatigue - total exhaustion, physical depletion
- Insomnia during nighttime, or sleep abnormally long amounts (day and night)
- Weakness - strength diminishes
- Bloating
- Joint pain
- Muscle twitching or cramping
- Dizziness, disorientation, vertigo
- Seizures
- Blood pressure problems (high or low)
- Heart races or beats irregularly for no apparent reason
- Liver problems
- Abnormal overheating as well as temperature loss problems
- Excessive sweating
- Cannot stay in sun for prolonged periods without becoming ill
- Drastic body temp fluctuations
- New, normal temp runs lower or higher than your previous "normal"
- Bowel habits change, loss of muscle control
- Stools contain foreign-looking matter
- Urine has foreign-looking matter (particles or black seeds, hair -
- sometimes encased in mucus-like substance)
- Incontinence
- Immediate pain that occurs simultaneously to untouched lesions on other parts of the body
- when another lesion is disturbed
- Hardened splinter-like material beneath skin that is difficult to remove,
- extremely painful, and odd in appearance once removed
- Ingrown hair that is difficult to remove, extremely painful
- Hair strands that are unusually thick or doesn't look like other hair
- Fingernails change shape and/or texture
- Fiber or thread-like material emerging from the skin, or visible just beneath the skin - may be
- black, white, tan, clear, red, blue, or rainbow colored. Some fibers may exhibit movement.
- Lyme Disease shares overlapping symptoms and the borellia bacteria with Morgellons Disease (applies to human and animal lab results)
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