Morgellons Disease Symptoms

The symptoms of Morgellons are frequently characterized as non-healing skin lesions associated with unusual structures that look like multi-colored fiber-like (filamentous) strands. Mutiply colors have been found (white, blue, black, red). In particular a burning or itching sensation as if small parasites are crawling on or under the skin. Many of the symptoms are shared, but no one symptom is shared by all individuals, but painful sensations under the skin and accompanying physical structures (fibers and granules) are the most consistent symptoms reported.

Adults and children both have been reported to have contracted the disease. Individuals in families can have the disease while other members do not, it is not yet know how contagious the disease is. In fact we still truly don't know how people get infected in the first place. Some Morgellons sufferers actually complain of seeing insects flying in and out of their skin. There is no evidence at the moment of Morgellons being a seasonal disorder. There are infected patients who claim to have had the symptoms for as long as two decades. The only connection found so far is that more than half of the Morgellons patients are also diagnosed with Lyme disease (borreliosis). It appears that once patients contract the disease, they have it for life. To date, there have been no reports of spontaneous remissions.

Morgellons is a multi-symptom skin disease. It has a number primary symptoms:

Physical-Symptoms

• Non-Healing Skin lesions
• Sensation of crawling and biting from under the skin (Unknown Arthropod or Parasite)
• Appearance of multi-colored fibers and granules protruding out of the skin
• Fatigue
• Joint swelling or hair loss
  
  

Mental-Symptoms

• Short-term memory loss, brain fog
• Attention Deficit, Bipolar or Obsessive-Compulsive disorders (OCD)
• Impaired thought processing