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[jonsi]

Hi Dwn2rth,

I can't give you advice for your doctors visit...

I can tell you that I have experienced your symptoms and it sounds like you are going through the worst of it right now. Hang in there. This support group will always be here, for you, and everyone going through this nightmare.

Keep sharing, we are here for you (& you help us too ).

In the white light,
~jonsi

[Gator]

Hello Dwn2rth,

Been reading your posts and so glad you found us. We are here for help and support.

About the itching; some people have used a peppermint sulphur soap. Some others and I used a sulphur paste made from Flowers of Sulphur available from a pharmacy.
I also used a dog shampoo called Sulfadene.

These critters hate organic raw apple cider vinegar and seasalt. These are available at the health food store.

Because there is some fungus involved in this, they love sugar and starchy foods which turn to sugar.

Bath soaks in peroxide and seasalt helps a lot. I do a salt scrub, rinse and then bath soak in a peroxide and salt , or vinegar and salt or epson salt .

A colon cleanse helps as well. I take herbs for parasites Cat's claw, black walnut, artemensia and teasel. Hulda Clarks book "the Cure for all Diseases" has lots of body cleanses in it.

Pau d arco herb helps with candida or fungus as does aloe vera.

Have you found Bubba's Protocol on here yet?

These are some ideas. Just concentrate on one thing at a time and don't try to do it all at once.

You may need some antibiotics, I don't know. A pharmaceutical Atarax helps with itching but puts me to sleep and I can't drive at all when I take it.

Hope this helps. Along with our family, I encourage you to rant and cry to us when you need to rant We all understand. We are here for you. Learn and do all you can and it will get better. You may discover some things that will help all of us. We are all in this together and it is a major battle, no doubt about it, but it gets better as you work at it. As Jonsi said, play music, meditate on God's word and the beauties in life so as to live in the light rather than the darkness. One day at a time is best.

Hugs and prayers,
Gator

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Here's something I'm wondering about since Gator mentioned it:

"Because there is some fungus involved in this, they love sugar and starchy foods which turn to sugar."

I was washing a pot that we cooked spaghetti noodles in yesterday that the noodles got a little over-cooked and there was slimy film around the entire top of the pot. It was glue-like... pasty... and we've heard some of us say how our lesions appear to have glue in them?... naturally, you can get what I'm thinking?

Also, my sister bought us a loaf of sourdough bread as a gift, on the bottom of the loaf and there's that white powder, fungus-looking stuff... I didn't eat it after that... I'm wondering there too?

Of course, there's very little 'science' to this thinking (other than we see the fungus in some red wines) - but maybe we should cut back on our pasta/bread intake to see if we get better or have less symptoms? Potatoes, too?

[Katinka]

If you particularly look at Candida....yes..I think we should cut down all white flour products, sugar, processed foods, sodas..etc..eat healthier all in all...

Kat

[Kritters]

Kam, that slime around the pot is pretty normal. It's the gluten or something. the bottom of the bread is prolly flour.

Kritts

[Maat]

Oh honey! It was the same with me! I used green walnut hull, wormwood, clove and neem with no problems, but as soon as I started taking the DE internally I thought I would lose my mind with the itching. I don't know if it was because I was taking too much, but things literally started crawling out of me. I stopped- and used mms mixed with msm cream-the smell sickens me but it seems to have killed anything in my skin with no crazy itching and healed up all irritations. I tried to take it internally, but just can't -it's too disgusting.

[Dwn2rth]

Hello everyone, and again, thank you for your support and advice. Well, I went back to the dermatologist with baking soda, and purell in hand. I saw the P.A. instead of the doctor which was fine with me as the doctor I see irritates me. We went through the same old same old, and one of my "problems" is that I don't have any outward signs, no lesions, tracks, etc. I just have crawling under my skin. After talking to her and showing her my "trick", she said whatever is on my skin is purely a reaction, no larvae or anything. Then at the end of the visit, she said...you may want to see a psychologist. I was so crushed. I wanted to cry, but I just shook my head, put my clothes on, canceled my next appt., and left never to return. I see a new dermatologist next month who specializes in infectious diseases. Part of me wants to cancel the appt. because I don't feel like hearing the same thing.

I used GSE in my shampoo for the first time last night and again this morning. I have to say I've hardly had any movement in my scalp. This has been the only bright spot in this ordeal.

What I don't understand is if I'm imagining crawling, why does it occur in cycles, meaning why does it slow down, why do I go through what I call a "mite" phase when I'm the most itchy and have the most crawling. Why does what I have in my scalp respond to my touch. If I feel it crawling in the front of my scalp, I can place my hand there, and feel it crawl somewhere else. As I move my hands, they move as well.

All I can do is pray that the new doc takes me seriously, and takes steps to find out what's wrong, I also pray for endurance. It's bad when I hope that whatever hatched in my pubic area hatches again, so I have proof. That was a scary experience, and had I known it would be so hard to prove that something is wrong with me, I would have put those suckers in a glass jar, punched a hole in the top, and taken them to the doc.

Well, here's to one of the biggest fights in my life, I'm just glad that I'm not alone.

Peace to all

[Bee]

I wasted $250 on a Infectious Diease Doctor, I wish I would of spent that money on homeopathic medicines instead.

I am having good luck with taking 4000mg of Garlic Gel capsules a day and also I have been using Swansons Himilyan Crystal Salt Shampoo & conditioner and St.Ives Apricot scrub. These are 3 products I would not want to do without. I did a 3 month colon cleanse in the beginning that I feeled really helped. I have only had lesions on my face, not all that itching at night or much of the symtoms you have.

I am not convinced they live long outside the body. So don't get all freaky yet about that. My husband and dogs don't have it.

[JinPA09]

Originally Posted by Dwn2rth

What I don't understand is if I'm imagining crawling, why does it occur in cycles, meaning why does it slow down, why do I go through what I call a "mite" phase when I'm the most itchy and have the most crawling. Why does what I have in my scalp respond to my touch. If I feel it crawling in the front of my scalp, I can place my hand there, and feel it crawl somewhere else. As I move my hands, they move as well.



Peace to all

I know what you mean about the phases. I like to refer to them as blooms lol. One thing that seems to help me when they get really bad is drinking a table spoon or so of baking soda in filtered or distiled water. It seems to really decrease the itching and wispys.

Hope you feel better soon.

John

[posey]

I am very sorry to hear there is another newbie; due to what being a newbie means here. However, I'm glad you found this place, it is good. I can't say anymore than what others have said.

Fot me the most peace I find is Spiritual and my Faith in my Savior Jesus Christ. Without Him, I believe I might have taken a dirt nap. But I know what the future really holds because of what He has told and promised, and this is temporary.

Got to go post a "vacation" post now.