I think Morgellons is a syndrome (eg. AIDS) rather than a disease.

[Verbal]

Hi folks. Long time no type. Had a baby, bought a house, recovering from Morgs. I have my latest and most successful take on our condition for you. It appears to me that our woes come from an initial suppression of our immune system. I for example had two contributing factors - I attained a toxic level of stored waste in my digestive system (yep, I'm full of sh_t) which rather than die, my immune system began a 24/7 campaign to compensate. Simultaneously, I had a disruption in my sleep schedule. Sleep deprivation basically eliminates your primary healing and anti-invasion mechanisms. We heal when we sleep. When we don't sleep, we don't heal and we don't eliminate foreign organisms. With my immune system suppressed by these two factors, multiple opportunistic parasites were able to establish themselves as advancing infections - adding another draining force on my immune system. It was not until I was able to identify and simultaneously fight each element suppressing my immune system that I began to have SUSTAINABLE progress. Previously I enjoyed amazing results from numerous treatments, but they were always temorary. Isolating the factors providing continuous suppression was the turning point for me. Maybe it can help you too.
love,
-v

[Steve Frey]

I tend to fall in line with that thought process verbal, for the most part. One thing I do feel very strongly about though is that there is a "core" organism at the root of this extremely complex biological battle that we are all involved in and that this organism is responsible for a large part of the human diseases where the cause is unknown. I believe that this organism has most likely resided in many, maybe even most, people on this planet for hundreds or more years and that due to it's very nature it has gone unnoticed by everyone. Living at a near perfect balance with it's host, this organism lives on inside of us, or just beneath our skin, it's growth kept in check by it's enemy, our immune system, the ill affects it causes us at this point are minor enough to be no more than an irritation or annoyance so we learn to live with them.

Then, for reasons that may vary as much as one person to another the balance leans to one side, it's side, and the fighting escalates, just like in a war, more troops join the battlefield, more die, more destruction, both sides in turmoil. If we manage to inflict enough destruction on this enemy and force it to retreat the battlefield dies down, but make no mistake, in all likelyhood this enemy organism is still there, laying low, waiting for the next opportunity to advance.

In general I believe these various "reasons" for the upset of this balance can be grouped into two catagories. First is the dynamics involved in each individual's immune system, no two people are the same nor are their immune systems, of course this line of thought applies to all disease. The second is the chemistry that is involved in the way of chemicals and drugs of all kinds. The changes in chemistry that we as humans are causing on this planet and in ourselves are huge, and these changes have come primarily in the last four or five decades. Wether it's a meth addict who gives this enemy a double shot at advancing by not only feeding it with the chemicals but by depleting his own army through lack of sleep, or if it's a soccer mom who's doctor prescribed seroquil to help her cope with life only to find that now she's getting lesions, the bottom line is this organism feeds on toxins and chemicals, the waste of everything else living, it does so in it's "known" natural environment and wherever else it goes. The technological advancement of our civilization must certainly play a role in the empowerment of this organism, the facts speak for themselves when it comes to the "fouling" community of microscopic invertebrates, they're fouling up everything all over the world, record inquires with businesses established to erraticate these pests. We'll keep deploying different weapons on them and we'll keep learning more and more but until we have actually identified and aimed our sights on the "core" we will never win this battle.

[Verbal]

as unusual as your position is, I have had similar thoughts. I hope one of us can break through the obstacles which may be obscuring our vision in regards to the presence of such an organism. I know I'm still trying. If it is there, it's an elusive little mofo.

[Steve Frey]

I hope one of us can break through the obstacles which may be obscuring our vision in regards to the presence of such an organism.

In my opinion the only obstacle is the closed mindedness of the professionals who devote their lives studying these organisms. Science knows there are forms of life that do not resemble most life as we know it, they know that some of these organisms have an undetermined number of life forms, they know that a practice referred to as "mimicry" exists amoungst many of these organisms where one can mimic the appearance of another, they know that some of these organisms have the abilty to mimic their hosts DNA therfore avoiding detection by immune systems, they know that extreme diversity and adaptability can be found amoungst species within the same class of organisms, and many of them know that all of these characteristics can be found within the Cnidaria and Ectoprocta Phylums, but for some reason they don't put two and two together.

[Verbal]

gotta go look those two up lol. currently, I feel as if there is a single, large (maybe 1/2 a fist sized? or as small as a pinky?) mother organism which spawns the more prolific tiny guys. Although the apparent mother may just be A LOT of the little guys clumped together... I think I'm gonna **** it out in the next week or so - workin on it. got one before - i think they tag-teamed me. i.e. he tagged the 2nd guy just as he was goin down, so i gotta go through it again. I didn't get a look at the first due to opaque toilet water (i have my limits - no fishin goin on there). anyway, off to my dictionary! cheers
-v

[EvDownJr]

Verbal,

Glad to see you back in action again. Congrats on the new house. Think you do great job describing the disease down to the gritty detail