1. State you reside in - Nova Scotia Canada
2. Inner City? Suburb? Country? City
3. Do you live on a lake, by the ocean or pond? Ocean
4. Do you have city or well water? City
5. Do you live in a heavily treed area? yes
6. Age at onset 28-29
7. Number of years affected 2.5
8. Any other family members affected? no
9. Your occupation at onset? none
10. Do you own pets? Cat? Dog? Other? no but hamsters at time of onset
11. Have/had you traveled to California, Florida or Texas? Europe? Other? no
12. Do you/have you garden, hike, camp or spend allot of time outdoors? enough
13. List your activities and hobbies. dont have time for much full time supervisor at call center and full time single mother.
14. Have you used a public whirlpool or pool? yes
15. Please provide your medical history (i.e.: do you or have you had any other diseases? Cancer, Lyme, Thyroid, AIDS, other?).
16. Do you smoke? trigeminal neuroolgia
17. Any medications you have taken or are taking? was taking carbonazipine (sp) at onset for neurolgia that is now currently in remission, which if you check side effects can cause visual and auditorial hallucinations... dr wouldnt even listen after that. i then started wearing long sleeves and pants all the time and made myself ignore it. When it came back with a vengence (i dont think it went away at all...) 6 months later and i wasn't on the carbonazipine anymore my first thought was (happily - i knew i wasn't crazy)
18. Do you drink more than 8 cups of coffee a day? no
19. As far as lesions, have you had more than 10 at a given time? yes
20. What part of your body did the lesions start? first big one that i dug at - leg. they initially started "jumping" off my head when i treated my children for lice with Nix, they then "burrowed/"eroded" into my skin whereever they landed and then i could see a black dot and could not remove it.
21. Is there any area that they are most prevalent? If so, where? worst place - eyebrows, when i plucked them all out one by one with tweezers, it "went away" for like 1.5 yrs. It's back now bad, and i think i am going to have to do it again... (eyebrows have so many uses you dont even realize till they are gone)
22. Is one side of your body/face more affected than the other (i.e.: left vs. right)? right maybe slighly
23. Please list your current symptoms (brain fog? vision disturbances? fatigue? nausea? weight loss/gain etc?)memory loss, fatigue, nausea vomiting temperature changes, foggy,
24. What did other doctors diagnose you with (i.e.: folleculitis? Scabies? DOP - delusional parasitosis)? scabies that I almost killed myself with twice covering my whole body and head for wayyyyy to long. laughed out of 2 emergency rooms i will never go back...
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