Crawling skin only symptom desperate

[suttles]

I recently had a rectal tumor removed. I am going to have the temporary illestomy reversed in the AM so access to computer will be limited.
Now I will try to keep this short.
We built a new house two years ago.
I have had all kinds of insects but was mostly trying to find out if we had wood boring beetles because of all the furniture that got powder post beetles.
I had a hard time proving this because I would burn the piece if it was infested.
I had sent all kinds of samples of insects that I would find to the state lab.
Many beetle types and also carpet beetle larvae.
I was not interested in any of these other insects just the wood boring.
Two weeks ago someone from a university came out and they immediately started taking pictures and sending them to someone else.
Our flooring was full of holes when it was installed.
Last fall I got out winter clothes that had been stored in totes.
I found something that looked like a part of a beetle and part cocoon.
I thought it must be the carpet beetle larvae.
I had not done anything to get rid of these and could not see them with the naked eye. I had a small microscope and would just collect samples of things that were insect and that is how I would get these ID.
After I got these clothes out all of my old sweat pants had holes.
I had never had but one moth hole that I know of.
So after I started wearing these clothes I would feel like something was crawling in them. At the time I could not see anything.
My husband got me a jewelers magnifier and then the small microscope.
I could see fibers that didn't look normal.
Now these are all over the house.
Our flooring is being taken up and there are things all over the house and I can wash clothes and even boil them and sometimes cant get rid of the balls.
They often look like normal peel balls it is the ones that will be hard that is crawling.
I don't have any lesions except the ones I have dug at to see if I had some other type of skin hair.
I will feel something land on me and when I look with the magnifier there willl be a small black threads.
These threads will be all over clothes and the house.
They do eat clothes and after I wash something I can see small black fuzz balls that just appear on them.
I have steamed with three different types of steamers and it helped at first.
Now I need to find someone that can tell me if I have moregellons. I have the things that look like the same fibers on the Internet. The only symptoms I have is something crawling in my clothes. Our house has a lot of insects that have been sent to state labs or university. One insect was carpet beetle larvea. I have thought this is what I was feeling. Now I don't know.
I am currently going to have a reversal for a temporary ilestomy where I had a rectal tumor removed. I am staying over night at a house and don't feel this crawling things. I am leaving to live in my car with just few clothes.
I can't stand this feeling and only fee lit on clothes that I can't get rid of even when boiling water is used. I have been married over 30 yrs and he is so angry and I have to get some answers if this is moregllons or some other insect.
WE have a 10 acre horse farm and I am having to leave it because of all these black fuzz balls and coccons I keep seeing.
Please reply I only have the next couple of days while I am in the hospital to reverse this ilestomy.thank you
These fuzz balls do not bother anyone else also I have seen the same thing on clothing in stores and blankets.
I have read that some people get sensitive to carpet beetle larvea.
They look like wolly bears and molt several times.
We have a infestation of them and I have to find out if this is the problem.
Sandy
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[Janice]

Hello my friend. I feel for you so much! It is very hard on a relationship. If you have a chance please read my thread" Thrips please read" It is actualy about spring tails. Mabey it will help you. Janice

[Janice]

Hi again, most importantly watch the video, no mater what "IT" (bug) this prodedure will kill them. Maby your husband can have it done why you are away. This is pesticide. Hope this helps you. Janice

On a side note, I also began to see holes in my clothes as well. You are the first one, besides myself, that I heard or read about was having this issue.
Janice

[fracty]

Hi Sandy,

I too am sorry to read about your relationship challenge and everything else going on.

It definitely sounds like Morgellon's to me. Many ppl do not have the lesions. You have the fibers and that is the real sign.

If janice has something that works I think you should try it as she recommends. For me, I had to throw all my clothes away. I lived in a hotel for several months. then finally threw just about all of belongings away and moved to a spot w no carpet, etc. Things are much better here, but I have to be careful.

The only thing that works for the clothes for me is to soak them in hospital grade disinfectant and then let tehm air dry without rinsing. Also spraying Lysol on clothes (inside) helps a lot. Even soaking in salt baths can get them off of you for a while.

Well, all the best to you. Please stay in touch and let us know how you are doing.

[suttles]

Janice,
Thanks for the info.
It is late and the surgery is at 6AM so I will be brief.
The contractor we had build our house was the biggest crook.
Since it was a small farm we had to make trips daily to feed our animals during constuction.
He took long time to finish and during that time the inside got plenty of rain.
They had to bore holes in the sub floor to drain the water.
After we moved in the first thing that I noticed was the front porch was a couple of inches lower where it met the house so all the water would run down the wall into the crawl space.
The contractor did remove the concrete and they poured more but it was a couple of months since they had to wait on warmer weather.
Next the crawl space is very deep. I am 5 ft and can almost stand up under there.
If it was not this deep it would be to scarey to go under there but I did this often until last summer, this was our second summer in the house.
So the grading around the house was all wrong and he had put the soi above the seal plate. I would often tell him the Hardy borad would not be warrented if it was within so many inches of the soil. Later we hired a builing inspector and he wrote in the report that the TN adoped codes said soil had to be so many inches below it.
We never had standing water but under one room the one we call our sunroom the entire wall was efferscince. This is the block and they were white.
This was all repaired but even last summer I went under there once and the floor joists had some powder film over them.
Often people that I called would have a moisture meter and there reading would not be bad after this was repaired.

One the pesticide note. I use to be a organic person and grow all the food I could and can or freeze it and never thought I would do the things i have done lately.
With this ostemy bad I would not leave home. I had leaks and so I was to afraid to go any place.
I have one uncle living and he is very old. My family is from the mountains in NC the true hillbillys. They had to do things we don't hear about.
He told me that he remembered people use to burn sulfur for insects.
This was a couple of weeks ago.
I did searches on this and saw that people burn sulfur in green houses for fungus and insects. There were some people growing pot that dit the same thing.
So I sent husband to look for powdered sufur and it was not until I had to travel to see the surgeon that we stopped at a place that sold wettable sulfur.
It is 90% sulfur I think.
Af first I was afraid to try it didn't know if it would explode or what.
My uncle didn't know how muich people used he just remembered people put it on the stove.
I burned a little out on the back porch and saw that it burned like inscense.
So I got braver.
I burned it inside and to me it didn't smell bad.
I could put it in a metal lid on something that just kept it up off the floor.

I put some near the duct work exchange and then turned the heat off but had the fan run.
I could feel some relief like the things in my clothes.
I did this in closets and different rooms.
It seemed to work but then they started to pull the hardwood flooring up and things got so much worse.
I would often get some good whifs of this and my sinsce would clear with thick mucus.
I know this may be a crazy thing but I was so desperate.

I have seen these black fuzz balls on clothing or blankets for sale in several stores.
The times I could get up to go stay in a motel I found the black fuzz balls.
All this would be more ammo for my husband to say see these are everywhere.

I have had pieces of luggage that something ate. Even the nylon straps and some of things that is not fabric that insects norally eat.
We have a wood boring stove in one room and I went to clean the tile on the wall behind it and there was these white grubby things that came out of the grout.
I did this before the surgery in Jan so that I could get somethings cleaned up before having this procedure.
I left all the evidence from these white things that came from the grout and stopped cleaing since the grout was coming out also.
After these things dried they looked like some type of fiber.
I showed them to everyone and no one has ever seen anything like that.
I recently got a little larger steamer so I started on the grout again and more of this came out and I left it.
I read the thrips but never saw the video and I put the link to buy the aromatherapy under a folder but where do you get the diffuser?
I may have missed it since it is so late and the early surgery I am very sleepy.
Thanks for replying and keep these messages around.
Oh just a note on thrips I do like being outside doing yard work. I use to do a lot but lately I have not been able to. I was anemic last summer due to colorectal cancer. Maybe there is hope.
Sandy

[cynical]

Originally Posted by Janice

Hi again, most importantly watch the video, no mater what "IT" (bug) this prodedure will kill them. Maby your husband can have it done why you are away. This is pesticide. Hope this helps you. Janice

On a side note, I also began to see holes in my clothes as well. You are the first one, besides myself, that I heard or read about was having this issue.
Janice

I have holes in clothes and in towels!

[suttles]

My towels have the balls in them and the older ones do have holes.
I was not sure if this was from over bleaching.
The newer towels that I don't use often are the ones with fibers.

These look like any other peel ball you would normally see only these feel like something kind of sticky almost like bubble gum this is after washing.

I have the strangest things that come out of the washer.
Even bought new washer and drier thinking mine was not getting hot enough.

Sandy

[Janice]

You can go to diffuserworld.com . They have many nebulizers and diffusers. The nebulizer I have cost $129.00, easy to use, (the most important to me). There is also a link to a few different oil companies that only sell theraputic grade oils. The grade is very important. Hope you are better soon! Janice

[suttles]

Does baking soda help the mold?
I have tried this on different things.
Would washing clothes in it help?
Janice what do you use for clothing and the crawling in them?
Thanks,
Sandy out the door to surgery to get this bag off

[Janice]

What I have done is not the answer for every one. I baught a LG high efficiency steam washer and dryer. There is a santitary cycle and an allergin cycle these cycles run about an hour and forty minuets. When I am in a hurry, There is also a 20 minuet steam cycle and then I do a speed wash. I have very minimal problem with the bugs in my clothes.
Sandy, you have to take care of the beast behind your walls, under your floors, around the perrimeter of your home ect. or you will be doing this as long as you live in this house. I always wanted only organic things in my life, I think concerning this bug problem... you can't afford this luxury. Talk to you when you get back. Feel better, Janice