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Originally Posted by Frankybme  Please answer as many questions as you can. We are hopping to find some common patterns among the answers.
If there are any other questions you want included, just send them to me. Also you might want to quote this post and then just fill in the answers.
1. State you reside in
2. Inner City? Suburb? Country?
3. Do you live on a lake, by the ocean or pond?
4. Do you have city or well water?
5. Do you live in a heavily treed area?
6. Age at onset
7. Number of years affected
8. Any other family members affected?
9. Your occupation at onset?
10. Do you own pets? Cat? Dog? Other?
11. Have/had you traveled to California, Florida or Texas? Europe? Other?
12. Do you/have you garden, hike, camp or spend allot of time outdoors?
13. List your activities and hobbies.
14. Have you used a public whirlpool or pool?
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?
17. Any medications you have taken or are taking?
18. Do you drink more than 8 cups of coffee a day?
19. As far as lesions, have you had more than 10 at a given time?
20. What part of your body did the lesions start?
21. Is there any area that they are most prevalent? If so, where?
22. Is one side of your body/face more affected than the other (i.e.: left vs. right)?
23. Please list your current symptoms (brain fog? vision disturbances? fatigue? nausea? weight loss/gain etc?)
24. What did other doctors diagnose you with (i.e.: folleculitis? Scabies? DOP - delusional parasitosis)? |
1. Texas
2. Suburb of Fort Worth
3. No
4. City
5. Yes
6. Not sure; mild symptoms possibly earlier; very noticeable at 57.
7. Again, not sure; 6 months with noticeable symptoms.
8. No.
9. Community Relations / Administrative
10. Yes; my dog has it and I think I got it from her.
11. Live in Texas; noticeable symptoms were immediately preceded by a vacation in rural Arkansas.
12. Moderate
13. Shopping/ antiqueing, reading, music / guitar / composition
14. No
15. HBP, prolapsed mitral valve, eczema, chronic constipation
16. Yes
17. No meds except occasionally Tums;
18. Sometimes; usually about 6;
19. No lesions yet, but tiny pimple-like things.
20. No lesions; not sure where the pimply things started.
21. Arms
22. Left, especially on my head and face
23. Brain fog; I'm having trouble with simple thinking. Crawling feeling on and
recently began feeling it under skin. Some insect has attached itself to my eyebrows and eyelashes. They wiggle; I find them in my lashes and brows, which are falling out fast. So is the hair on my head. On the root end of the hairs is some kind of goop. Wiggling sensation where clothing is tight. Was feeling like I was being stung; that's stopped. Now there are tiny cream-colored round squishy things coming out of pores. It hurts because it feels as though they're being forced out the pores. Sometimes the things are hard instead of soft. Black debris and jet-black hair-like things around the pimples. Deep, wet coughing. Feeling like a caustic liquid has suddenly been squirted into my eyes or the back of my mouth. It burns and tastes terrible. There is a bad smell to this, BTW, and when I feel the liquid at the back of my mouth, it tastes the way it smells and nauseates me. it's awful. Thick, stringy coating in mouth in the morning that doesn't brush away. Goes away only when I eat. Vinegar wash helps to cut it. Vision problems; have had 3 new pairs of glasses in 6 months. Rash on lower legs; doesn't itch. Edema; never had it before. Sometimes in some places I feel like tiny things are flying at my face and eyes and landing on my hair. The hair on my head moves for absolutely no reason.
24. when this started, I thought I had head lice. I went to the doctor to make sure so I could treat. He decided I had scabies even though I didn't have tracks or lesions. He also wouldn't come near me for fear he'd catch it. The second doctor cleared me of scabies, thought it had probably been head lice and the med had taken care of it. After that episode, though, and everything I've read since finding the Morgellons info a few months ago, I haven't been back to the doctor. Why go if you're only going to be ridiculed or misdiagnosed?