If you have time, a quick poll...

[jee]

Cotton is the main source from where it came alive for me. A bed sheet with somethin like lint on it. It bit me but nothing happened for weeks.. then I got a bite from an ant/spider bug and used a pesticide.... oh well boy didnt that itching, crawling, stinging started? Then black specks (carbon), now I see fibers... and new are the white sand like thingies leaving the skin, ( eggs?)

A parasite, now a nematode with many stages of development who likes to eat debris, dead skin and cotton. Maybe it lives in our intestines, and have offsprings feeding all over our bodies...
It can be dormant an awaken come to life by an exterior agent as pesticides... I actually believe we all have it. Don't they say we all have fibers in our bodies? Then one day it mutates or awakes as the condition of our bodies permit.How did the first humans emerged from the water? Didn't they need a co2 and o2 and minerals?

It is a combination of factors that made it grow.

Most of us have seen our clothes damaged, isn't it? Why?
EVERYTHING in this world is stardust!

Have you found clumps of fibers around the house, more than normally you would?

[tchrosesahna]

I am blessed to be pretty healthy; the only thing that I can recall is that I cared for a wild bird and I've been bitten by a rodent. That was a very long time ago. Nothing recent except incredible amounts of emotional stress due to a divorce I didn't see coming.

[paddel]

Rhonda,

Clairvoyance is that a quality that humans abducted by aliens posses? I am not really certain that is the case. I think clairvoyance might be a trait from birth.

Paul

[jonsi]

Hi paddel,

I didn't mean to say that everyone who is clairvoyant has been abducted by aliens. And I'm not saying that everyone who has been abducted is clairvoyant.

I think you are right: "clairvoyance might be a trait from birth".

Love ya,
~jonsi

[fritolay66]

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"For those of you who are online and legitimately believe that you have Morgellons, I ask you this....can you definitively isolate what you believe to be the culprit, pathogen, vector......ect."

I know I am growing out fungus in a petri and awaiting results for identification.

I know my two cats had this, my bird died of it.

I know we went through basement flooding, in which one time going into the basement it had standing water with a haze on it.

I know the garage had black mold from a bathroom leak.

I know we had a mite infestaion, I know I saw them in my nose and eyes, and identified by a vet on the cats and bird.

I know we had a small bout with fungus gnats.

I know my son has Lyme and I tested only positive to band 41.

I know my liver enzyme alk phos was elevated.

I know my CO2 levels were abnormally high.

I know my gallbladder ultrasound was on the verge of being abnormal.

I know I had a gazillion nasty lesions from hell.

I know I have a petri growing out fungus. And yes, I believe that is the starting point. The toxins fungii can produce open the door to everything else, internal or from the environment but shutting down or compromising multiple pathways in our bodies. I know I do not expect to get any better without killing the fungus and chelating the toxins out, and the rest will follow.

Frito

[gigi22]

Originally Posted by fritolay66

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"For those of you who are online and legitimately believe that you have Morgellons, I ask you this....can you definitively isolate what you believe to be the culprit, pathogen, vector......ect."
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I know I have a petri growing out fungus. And yes, I believe that is the starting point. The toxins fungii can produce open the door to everything else, internal or from the environment but shutting down or compromising multiple pathways in our bodies. I know I do not expect to get any better without killing the fungus and chelating the toxins out, and the rest will follow.

Frito

I am in full agreement here.

In my case, I returned from a trip from the tropics. We had stayed in a hotel room there where the air conditioning had not been working properly, and the room smelled moldy/mildewy... I did not feel right upon returning from that trip. The doc thought it was a sinus infection. It may have been, but it certainly wasn't bacterial... After 3 rounds of antibiotics, I was left with a severe, systematic candida infection and my M symptoms came a few weeks after that... What I have found out since then:

- my thyroid is not working properly according to blood testing.
- my liver pathways are not working properly. My phase I pathway is too fast and my phase II pathway is too slow. This can allow toxins to accumulate in the body and cause damage.
- I am suffering from several food intolerances, which is keeping my immune system busy and causing redness and rashes on my skin.
- Stool tests indicate low pancreatic enzymes and an overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria and *Saprophytic fungi* in my digestive tract.

- My skin symptoms have improved only because I've attacked the yeast/fungus that is overgrown there through applying essential oils, barley treatments, etc. The fungus gnats and springtails are gone because I've reduced the amount of yeast/fungus on my skin and killed them off if my environment. Fungus gnats and springtails are attracted to fungus. I no longer have problems attracting these bugs.

We may be suffering from parasites specific to morgellons, but I believe these to be opportunistic and not necessarily the culprit.....The lint and fibers that are in my environment are everywhere but not everyone is affected by it.
My body broke down somehow in order to be susceptable to this mold/fungus/yeast overgrowth. My husband was exposed to the same environment as me, but he is not sick.

I still have more heavy metal testing to do. My hair test showed high in some metals, but the doc says a metal challenge test is a better indicator for some other metals like mercury....

[mmarsha]

Originally Posted by skylark99

I think that there are two -or possibly more- culprits involved in this illness.

First, from observation, it would seem that there is some type of skin mite, which I think has mutated from chemical exposure -whether environmental or in the food supply or chain, or both, I am not sure. Many of the initial stages of this illness resemble Demodex infection, which infect dogs and humans; it is not widely known, but most dogs have Demodex present in their skin without symptoms. It is possible that the recent popularity of topical flea treatments for pets and insect growth regulators for home flea treatments have caused Demodex to mutate.

Secondly I think that there is a second, possibly a third culprit involved possibly as yet unidentified or unclassified, perhaps a new zoonose that previously did not infect humans. I suspect that these organisms or parasites exist in symbiosis, and eradicating one would naturally make the host unsuitable for the other(s).

While conventional treatments for scabies usually fail in early stages of the illness, there is this oddity: the presence of all those black specks. While not associated with mites, these have to be significant because so many people report them, they are uniformly described by all with this illness, and they are almost without exception, classified as "dirt" or 'debris" upon examination by entomology labs. I believe these may be the other culprit, or one of them.
I suspect that the second and third stages of the illness are precipitated by the second or third culprit evolving and mutating from exposure to chemicals in the environment or genetically modified foods in the diet.

My blk specs for identified as aspergillus mold...
This is after the entomologist at UT said it was dirt.... several times as I kept sending them until they finally would not except samples from me anymore... LOL I thought they were not looking at my samples because these specs would bite or at least feel like they were.And they thought I was CRAZY.. But it was the reaction of the mold on my skin.
mm

[Sadsack]

Mm -

Where were your black specks analyzed as aspergilllus?

MRF and OSU have been trying to determine what they are for years. It seems that "aspergillus" would have been very easily determined, especially since the MRF has the assistance of Dr. Kilani, who owns Clongen Labs and is the Lab Director: Morgellons Disease - Clongen Labs

SS

[Bee]

Many of my specks are GREEN now.
And I have had 3 light green wormy seed pod things ?

[rose777]

Originally Posted by jsim1

For those of you who are online and legitimately believe that you have Morgellons, I ask you this....can you definitively isolate what you believe to be the culprit, pathogen, vector......ect.

This is a bit urgent, so if you have the time, please respond.

Additionally, how many of you believe in a synthesis theory-one that includes perhaps an organic onset by a bug bite, plant virus, ect but seems to change into something more....synthetic in nature. Just curious.

So lets see a poll,good idea,Well it started in the rural hospital,seems like after 2 months of 40 patients to 1 nurse(disgusting treatment for humans)booh booh This nurse noticed the rashes(hush hush)You are not supposed to notice that every patient and nurse aide has got a rash..oh yeah.....well adminstration didn't seem to at all give a damn.....there were over 100 tubes of permethin in the med room(this place has bugs!!!!!!!!!!)Well these aren't just any kind of buggss...so I got the hell out of there but brought the bugggs(most obviously the collembola variety)and in about 1-2 months after this wonderful rotation i had full blown morgellons....and I do see springtails specifically and have all the symptoms of morgellons...typical back lesions,facial lesions,brown fibers,white peeling wormy things.....but I have mms,and a protocol to follow the best I can...it could be worse and I tried to sic the dumpy hospital with public health and every inspector i could think of but they passed this off as dermatitis and all those patients suffering with this garbage...and the help,including nursing totally in the dark..yuk..it's ok I guess...acceptance is difficult for this person taught to help and nurture and all the lying and deception ....not done with them yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!but then I am sick for now.Rose