saw this online---Hope the poster doesnot mind but this is how I feel alot latley.
I know what you are going through….I have had it for 2 years. It is draining on all sides:- emotionally, financially, socially, taking its insedious toll on every corner of your life. To have things ooze out of your skin and have a constant feeling of being bitten and things scuttling just under your skin is the stuff of nightmares….In cases yours and mine, a living nightmare.
a) biting by things you can’t see….but there are lots of ‘black pepper dots’ on everything
b) the nightmare begins with constant stinging - really kicks into high gear after the sun goes down…
c) start throwing out everything, ripping up carpets, repainting, constant cleaning, mopping, washing…..in an effort to get rid of this thing
d) insomnia takes its toll, work all day in an exhausted state, only to come home to the enemy that takes over the night shift!
e) try to convince those near to you what you are going through - get strange looks and they start thinking you are having a breakdown
f) go to the doctors….tests reveal nothing…diagnosed in 5 minutes with great scepticism….continue seeing doctors until you realize you are exposing yourself to the very real threat of being labelled dilusional and horrifyingly worse still, the fact that they can label you mad and have you committed which has happened in numerous cases!
g) start looking for others with this affliction as they are the only ones who understand….make a conscious effort to ’self help and self medicate’ and pass on to others with the affliction what is ‘working’ to any degree.
h) The doctors are in their offices all day dealing with the routine cases of known ailments that present. They have no time to learn anything new from when they left Uni.
We are more educated on this disease than they are…they are facing the land while behind them the Tsunami is fast approaching….they are too busy dealing with the regular stuff to turn around and see the devestation that is bearning down on them! Wake up and turn aroun!!!! This is a very real and devestating affliction! Do something about it before it is too late.