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Post by Ayla on May 15, 2012 20:48:17 GMT -5
Go to the link to see the full article. www.omicsonline.org/2155-9554/2155-9554-3-140.php?Morgellons Disease: A Chemical and Light Microscopic StudyPublished March 16, 2012Marianne J. Middelveen 1, Elizabeth H. Rasmussen 2, Douglas G. Kahn 3 and Raphael B. Stricker 1* 1International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD 2College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 3Department of Pathology, Olive View - UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California Abstract Morgellons disease is an emerging multisystem illness characterized by unexplained dermopathy and unusual skinassociated filament production. Despite evidence demonstrating that an infectious process is involved and that lesions are not self-inflicted, many medical practitioners continue to claim that this illness is delusional. We present relevant clinical observations combined with chemical and light microscopic studies of material collected from three patients with Morgellons disease. Our study demonstrates that Morgellons disease is not delusional and that skin lesions with unusual fibers are not self-inflicted or psychogenic. We provide chemical, light microscopic and immunohistological evidence that filaments associated with this condition originate from human epithelial cells, supporting the hypothesis that the fibers are composed of keratin and are products of keratinocytes.
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Post by Gwen "sunnyand7777" Simmons RN on May 17, 2012 1:27:06 GMT -5
New Scientific Study Provides Evidence That Morgellons Is a Physical Illness Hello to Everyone, Here's some breath-taking, 'tears of joy' news ... and more will be coming. (The only thing holding us back is lack of funding to cover the costs of research. So... if anybody wins the lottery ... LOL ... OR wants to help in any way big or small ... ;D full version, pdf at: www.thecehf.org "...The latest paper, is the final nail in the coffin of the delusional parasitosis theory held by many so called "doctors" and the paper is the finest work done on morgellons in the last 10 years. ... It's good. ... a brilliant piece of work." Hey there, CDC?! " You ... failed to follow the appropriate statistical and scientific protocols, and Ray Stricker and Marianne Middleveen, and their associates, with no budget, only the power of original thinking, and rigorous scientific discipline, found things so obvious, that you, the CDC overlooked, you should be embarassed and hang your heads in shame, and resign from your jobs, because you are not qualified to deliver a Happy Meal at the drive thru window at the local mcDonalds. Your a a disgrace to the science community, and a disgrace to the nation you claim to represent. CDC...your 15 minutes are up. And the doctors running around in the press back in January telling everyone it is an "itch disorder" or "folliculitis"?..your 15 minutes are up too....consider a new profession. Your incompetency at scientific inquiry, is so apparent, that I can only draw the obvious conclusion, that you are the south bound end, of a north bound horse. Now go read ray and Marianne's paper, and then go hang your head in shame, for the needless suffering you caused, by your undeserved air of arrogance. Checkmate, on the CDC...game over. CDC, you lose." Gwen "Sunny" Simmons
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Post by itchin4answers on May 17, 2012 3:33:23 GMT -5
New Scientific Study Provides Evidence That Morgellons Is a Physical Illness Hello to Everyone, Here's some breath-taking, 'tears of joy' news ... and more will be coming. (The only thing holding us back is lack of funding to cover the costs of research. So... if anybody wins the lottery ... LOL ... OR wants to help in any way big or small ... ;D full version, pdf at: www.thecehf.org "...The latest paper, is the final nail in the coffin of the delusional parasitosis theory held by many so called "doctors" and the paper is the finest work done on morgellons in the last 10 years. ... It's good. ... a brilliant piece of work." Hey there, CDC?! " You ... failed to follow the appropriate statistical and scientific protocols, and Ray Stricker and Marianne Middleveen, and their associates, with no budget, only the power of original thinking, and rigorous scientific discipline, found things so obvious, that you, the CDC overlooked, you should be embarassed and hang your heads in shame, and resign from your jobs, because you are not qualified to deliver a Happy Meal at the drive thru window at the local mcDonalds. Your a a disgrace to the science community, and a disgrace to the nation you claim to represent. CDC...your 15 minutes are up. And the doctors running around in the press back in January telling everyone it is an "itch disorder" or "folliculitis"?..your 15 minutes are up too....consider a new profession. Your incompetency at scientific inquiry, is so apparent, that I can only draw the obvious conclusion, that you are the south bound end, of a north bound horse. Now go read ray and Marianne's paper, and then go hang your head in shame, for the needless suffering you caused, by your undeserved air of arrogance. Checkmate, on the CDC...game over. CDC, you lose." Gwen "Sunny" Simmons I can't believe what I'm reading. My eyes are bad but not that bad...LOL
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Post by Ayla on May 17, 2012 11:21:50 GMT -5
Gwen, what is the pdf you want us to read? You just gave a link to the site. Please post a direct link to whatever page on the site you want us to see, or the exact title of the paper so we can google it if necessary.
Is it the same article that I started the thread with?
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Post by toni on May 17, 2012 14:00:01 GMT -5
Go to the link to see the full article. www.omicsonline.org/2155-9554/2155-9554-3-140.php?Morgellons Disease: A Chemical and Light Microscopic StudyPublished March 16, 2012Marianne J. Middelveen 1, Elizabeth H. Rasmussen 2, Douglas G. Kahn 3 and Raphael B. Stricker 1* 1International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD 2College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 3Department of Pathology, Olive View - UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California Abstract Morgellons disease is an emerging multisystem illness characterized by unexplained dermopathy and unusual skinassociated filament production. Despite evidence demonstrating that an infectious process is involved and that lesions are not self-inflicted, many medical practitioners continue to claim that this illness is delusional. We present relevant clinical observations combined with chemical and light microscopic studies of material collected from three patients with Morgellons disease. Our study demonstrates that Morgellons disease is not delusional and that skin lesions with unusual fibers are not self-inflicted or psychogenic. We provide chemical, light microscopic and immunohistological evidence that filaments associated with this condition originate from human epithelial cells, supporting the hypothesis that the fibers are composed of keratin and are products of keratinocytes. www.omicsonline.org/2155-9554/2155-9554-3-140.php?Morgellons Disease: A Chemical and Light Microscopic Study Published March 16, 2012 Figure 2A: Fibers from Patient 1. Note floral appearance of fibers (100x magnification). From the article on Morgellons, this picture is FIGURE 2A
And that sure looks a lot like "plant hairs" which are called Trichomes. Stellate Trichomes (which stellate means star shaped in botany). And this picture below of plant hairs (stellate Trichomes) looks like that one above to me, in that it's how Stellate Trichomes grow. waynesword.palomar.edu/hybrids2.htmAlso, Trichomes secrete a sticky (that turns hard) resin. Trichomes also look like fuzz as they're growing.
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Post by toni on May 17, 2012 14:10:30 GMT -5
Extension Publications Extension County Offices Agronomy Botany and Plant PathologyEntomologyForestry and Natural Resources Horticulture and Landscape ArchitectureCollege of AgricultureExtension Trichomes (Plant Hairs) Gail Ruhl, Sr. Plant Disease Diagnostician, Purdue University Quote from article: Have you ever noticed the fuzzy growth on the underside of an oak or sycamore leaf and wondered what was wrong with the tree? Fuzzy mats of hairy growth on the underside of tree leaves are often mistaken for a plant disease or insect problem. In actuality, the whitish-tan fuzzy growth is a part of the plant known as trichomes. Wikipedia defines a trichome as a small hair or other outgrowth from the epidermis of a plant.... www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/weeklypics/5-23-11.htmlPS, please know I'm VERY happy that Dr Stricker and others have written this article above. And I'm sure not disputing them at all from what they've written, but I did send them this same info (and lots more) on the issue of Agrobacterium, keratinocytes and the hybryid stellate Trichomes... because of the similarities. If I've posted this info on the wrong thread, I'll be more than happy to start another thread because I just felt this is important since the article had been posted. Thank you.
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Post by toni on May 17, 2012 14:17:50 GMT -5
And some huge great pictures of all kinds of shapes of Trichomes. They've got a "star/stellate" shaped Trichome (plant hair) pictured here too in this link. botany.cz/en/trichomes/Along with trichomes that look like horns.
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Post by Carrie♥ on May 20, 2012 18:45:28 GMT -5
This is awesome news! How are people proceeding?
If there is a direct relation to Morgellon's and BDD (which Oddball had at the onset of this disease btw, well not bovine but she had really bad interdigital cysitis for a couple years) and spirochetes and we've been undiagnosed do we take this new info to our docs?
I mean, even tho I am relatively Morg free as are my kids and dog we still have some issues. Just not the major skin issues we had at the onset.
And if any of y'all remember six or so months ago I was tested for Lyme and another co-infection but it was negative. The ordered the tests because I had optic neuritis which has since resolved itself.
But there is no doubt that I had Morgellon's. I mean my whole family and dog. Is there a future threat for us next time we're immune suppressed perhaps?
Where do we go with this info? It sounds like they're proposing this IS a systemic disease. How the hell do I present this to my current Kaiser PCP? If I do at all!?!
What are y'all going to do with this new info??? ;D
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Post by Carrie♥ on May 20, 2012 18:46:23 GMT -5
I used to call those things starfish. I've seen plenty of them in my slides...
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Post by violet on May 21, 2012 9:39:54 GMT -5
This is awesome news! How are people proceeding? If there is a direct relation to Morgellon's and BDD (which Oddball had at the onset of this disease btw, well not bovine but she had really bad interdigital cysitis for a couple years) and spirochetes and we've been undiagnosed do we take this new info to our docs? I mean, even tho I am relatively Morg free as are my kids and dog we still have some issues. Just not the major skin issues we had at the onset. And if any of y'all remember six or so months ago I was tested for Lyme and another co-infection but it was negative. The ordered the tests because I had optic neuritis which has since resolved itself. But there is no doubt that I had Morgellon's. I mean my whole family and dog. Is there a future threat for us next time we're immune suppressed perhaps? Where do we go with this info? It sounds like they're proposing this IS a systemic disease. How the hell do I present this to my current Kaiser PCP? If I do at all!?! What are y'all going to do with this new info??? ;D Hi, Carrie. It really is exciting news, isn't it. You probably speak for all of us with the questions you ask above. Personally, I think patience (a lot) is still needed for (1) this news to get out in the major media; (2) for our docs to (perhaps slowly but surely) see that this condition is real, and then try to help us. I sent my internist the article, but I don't know if she'll read it or not. I asked her to at least scan it, as it's a seminal research report. I'm thinking of making an appt. with her to discuss the article so that I know she becomes aware of what is in it. What I find most hopeful for us in it (besides its validating our condition as being real) is the probable involvement of pathogens (serious ones). That should of all things get the medical establishment's attention, although as I just typed that, I don't know if that will happen or not since so many are not big believers or have much education about Lyme Disease, which these pathogens are associated with. And most would be aligned with the other Lyme Disease Association rather than the one the lead author is associated with. One thing I remain very strongly cognizant of (and I realize, dear Carrie, that you may disagree), is that in spite of things sometimes seeming out of control, those things as well as all others are under God's control, for his ultimate purposes, and for our ultimate good. It's one of His promises. Take care, and it's always nice seeing you post!
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Post by Carrie♥ on May 29, 2012 17:41:49 GMT -5
Thanks Violet. I'm sure excited to see what's going to happen next. ;D
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Post by itchin4answers on May 29, 2012 17:48:20 GMT -5
Thanks Violet. I'm sure excited to see what's going to happen next. ;D I can laugh NOW ;D but I wasn't when I was dying, no lie - Hope you a happy happy happy DAY ;D ...and I hope those 4 police officers read this forum. ANT - if you feel UNSTABLE for those in the know, delete please - the dim wits can chase all they like - I am innocent. Have a great day everyone.
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Post by Ayla on May 30, 2012 12:23:19 GMT -5
Carrie, Morgellons is most definitely systemic. If you have any doubt, take a look at the photos of "Morgellons Fibers in urine" on my site (Figs 1-9 midway down the page) as well as "Morgellons fibers in the stool." morgellonsdiseaseawareness.com/photo_galleries/morgellons_fibers_in_urineYou may not be showing signs of the disease but it's still in the body. I think it's a great idea to send the article to your doctors, but going out of the way to make an appt. to share the info. seems unnecessary. They still don't have the information they need to treat it. Even if they could treat it, it would not be treating it on the level that it needs to be addressed on. I'm very anti-doctor when it comes to the major diseases as doctors can only treat with band-aids. It's up to all of us to be our own healthcare practitioners and to learn what we can about supporting the body. Finding someone like a Naturopath is a good start in taking that a step further. My respect for Dr. Stricker is immense, for the continued search for answers to this disease, yet the Morgellons community is split between those still looking to their doctors for answers and those that have turned away from traditional meds. So far, I have not seen a Morgellons sufferer cured by medical intervention, yet I've spoken to many who have been injured and made worse. Plus, the long-term antibiotics create havoc in our systems. Who knows what the long-term use of anti-parasitics can do? I would NEVER tell a doctor working with Kaiser that I had this disease.
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Post by callen on May 30, 2012 17:23:18 GMT -5
This is awesome news! How are people proceeding? If there is a direct relation to Morgellon's and BDD (which Oddball had at the onset of this disease btw, well not bovine but she had really bad interdigital cysitis for a couple years) and spirochetes and we've been undiagnosed do we take this new info to our docs? I mean, even tho I am relatively Morg free as are my kids and dog we still have some issues. Just not the major skin issues we had at the onset. And if any of y'all remember six or so months ago I was tested for Lyme and another co-infection but it was negative. The ordered the tests because I had optic neuritis which has since resolved itself. But there is no doubt that I had Morgellon's. I mean my whole family and dog. Is there a future threat for us next time we're immune suppressed perhaps? Where do we go with this info? It sounds like they're proposing this IS a systemic disease. How the hell do I present this to my current Kaiser PCP? If I do at all!?! What are y'all going to do with this new info??? ;D I know what *I'm* going to do with this new study---I'm printing it out to take with me when I go see a dermatologist! (Once I find one in/near Atlanta who won't slap a "psychosomatic" label on me.) It sounds like the keratin fibers are produced by some kind of immune system response to an environmental trigger. Whether that trigger is infectious, chemical, fungal, etc. I don't know---but the simple fact that they've identified these fibers as products of our own bodies is stupendous. (NOTE: I've seen info from some people (including photos) of "hairy looking" stuff growing on the outside of their skin (one fellow even had it growing on his biopsy sutures!)---those photos look different from Morgellons fibers to me; I strongly suspect they're some type of yeast or fungal growth, possibly a type of candida, that the doctors don't recognize. Therefore, I think sufferers should try to get photos of their own fibers or "hairy" stuff and do (and get their doctor to do) visual comparisons, as well as tests for candida or other potential fungi/yeast.) But the ones I have match up with countless other photos of Morgellons fibers. It wasn't until I read the above study that I realized just what a weight I'd been laboring under: not just the fear of getting a psychosomatic "no help" diagnosis, but even more importantly, the fear that the Morgellons was infectious kept me from touching my son and husband. I'm a very huggy physically demonstrative person; being afraid to hug/touch the people I love most, was killing me. If it is indeed an auto-immune response, then I don't have to fear giving them hugs and kisses anymore. All through this I've tried to stay calm, and battled the depressive nature of it all---but when I ran across this report, my shell just broke and I started crying. That's when I realized what an emotional toll it's taken on me, being afraid to hug, being fearful that they would "catch" this from me. Again, all this is still early days. Now that they've identified the fibers as keratin-type structures created by our own bodies, the next step is to find out *why* they're created: What triggered it to start? Is it something that will keep manifesting so long as the trigger is in the environment and will stop when trigger is removed... or is it something that only needs one exposure to trigger, and then will keep going even when trigger is no longer present? Is there more than one factor that will trigger it? (i.e. one person it might be exposure to a chemical, for another it might be exposure to a plant, or an infectious disease, a bug bite, etc.) We don't know if this immune response is something new in the human family, or if it's older but not recognized in a widespread fashion until now, because sufferers prior to the last two decades had little means to even know others existed. Given that, there's some additional questions: 1. Why is there a preponderance of menopausal-age caucasian women affected by this? Does body chemistry play a factor? Do hormones? Is there a genetic factor? Does having caucasian skin make it easier to notice/spot the fibers, or is there a genetic tie... something like africanoid to sickle cell, jewish to tay sachs, mediterranean and africanoid to anemia with some malaria treatments? 2. If this *is* a fairly new development, what caused this change? Is it related to diet? Modern culture uses a TON more corn syrup, soy, and other products than even fifty years ago. We also have GMO's becoming wide-spread---could it be our bodies reacting to something in the GMO's (genetically modified foods) as carrier viruses/bacteria/chemicals in them get deposited in our bodies? Is it in reaction to the wide variety and large quantity of chemicals we breath in, ingest, and touch on a daily basis? Is it a combination of factors? 3. What is/are the triggers? Are we reacting in a sensitized fashion (rather like an allergy) to something old in our environment (like the plant stuff the person posted above)---perhaps a new reaction because our bodies have changed with modern life? Or are we reacting to new/adapted triggers, such as bacteria or fungi that have altered due to chemicals and/or climate change? Those are only some of the questions researchers must now pursue, in determining "Why Morgellons?" *** As for me, I strongly suspect one or both of two potential triggers: 1. Like many sufferers, I'd been doing some gardening. Not in a garden---I was potting plants on my back deck with two types of potting soil: Miracle Gro's Moisture Control for the flowers, and a new type of organic potting and garden soil for the veggies and herbs. 2. We had a bad rat infestation in our garage that we let go for a while---we'd been using the garage and storage and it was chock full of stuff. We kept putting it off, except that we did put out some baited "house" traps. It's only recently that I learned that if you kill the rats but don't pesticide, their mites will invade looking for new hosts. Also, last year woodpeckers made a couple of holes in our siding, and this year a different type of bird is nesting in the holes, plus one is nesting in the garage soffit. In short, given that my hubby and son have complained of feeling bites but show no Morgellons fibers, I suspect that we have an invasion of either rat mites, bird mites, or bird lice. This may have been the trigger for my Morgellons reaction. We're taking steps to combat all that: clearing, fogging and spraying the garage, getting pest control out to deal with the birds and spray nest areas, fogging and spraying the house along with applying some diatomaceous earth (yes, while wearing masks---we'll use a shop vac to get it up, after leaving it sit for a day while we vacate the house, I know it's dangerous to breathe it). While we're out of the house we'll board our dogs and have them washed/treated for mites and bird lice. We'll also do whatever we can to eradicate any mites/lice from our own bodies. Aside from the washes I'm doing, I'd like to have a doctor prescribe medication specific to dealing with these pests. As for what I'm doing on myself: using a scrub mitt with some baking soda. Rinse well, then lather up with sulfur soap (from Mexico). Stand 5 min in shower with that soap on me, then rinse. Then dry off, then using Crabtree & Evalyn's Citron Souffle moisturizer. I couldn't get into my hair/scalp well with longer hair, so I gave myself a buzz cut (about 1/4 inch long hair now). I'd like to just shave my head---but I'm afraid that the doctor may want samples; if so, all I need to do is defer the shower for a day or 2, and boy will it get bad. Sigh. The one laugh I got out of the buzz cut was when I told my hubby, "I don't look like Sinead O'Connor---with my hairline, I look like Mickey Mouse!" ;D As for the laundry, I tried the same trick I used years ago when my daughter got head lice: if it can't be washed in hot water with bleach, and can't be dried on the highest heat setting, I put in 1/4-1/2 cup of the Lysol concentrate (the brown bottle) as the detergent. If you don't want your clothes to smell strongly of it, run them a second time with no detergent or Lysol, to help rinse out the smell. Another reason I suspect it might be mites as a trigger (or possibly a germ from the rat poop dust): We rented a dumpster to clear out the garage. We sprayed all over (especially shoes) with Deep Woods Off with Deet. We wore professional breathing masks. It took two days of work to empty and sweep out. The second night, I was so tired I neglected the baking soda and sulfur soap--I just used antibacterial dish detergent. OMG the itching and crawling the next day was TERRIBLE! And under the microscope, there were tons of black flakes and fibers on/under my skin! So the next night, I did my full routine, scrubbing a little harder than normal with the scrub glove and the baking soda. That was last night. This morning, the dark blue sheet I'd been lying on was COVERED with ejected skin matter! Little bits and flakes all over! Under the microscope, my skin had far fewer bits than yesterday---but so far, every bit I've retrieved off that sheet and looked at was skin and fibers. EVERY bit. It *could* just be that the built up because I used a different wash the one night---but I suspect it's because I'd done two days work in the garage with some of my skin exposed to the dust we stirred up as we worked: I think it triggered an increased auto-immune reaction in me. Hubby did *not* complain of feeling bites in bed last night, by the way. Okay, this post is horrendously long---kudos to anyone who waded through it! Will post updates as I can. Thanks for listening! PS---Thanks to Toni in Nevada and David in Ireland: both of you provided some helpful products/ideas in dealing with this! I found info from the both of you on multiple sites---thanks!
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Post by callen on May 30, 2012 17:47:02 GMT -5
Carrie, Morgellons is most definitely systemic. If you have any doubt, take a look at the photos of "Morgellons Fibers in urine" on my site (Figs 1-9 midway down the page) as well as "Morgellons fibers in the stool." morgellonsdiseaseawareness.com/photo_galleries/morgellons_fibers_in_urineYou may not be showing signs of the disease but it's still in the body. I think it's a great idea to send the article to your doctors, but going out of the way to make an appt. to share the info. seems unnecessary. They still don't have the information they need to treat it. Even if they could treat it, it would not be treating it on the level that it needs to be addressed on. I'm very anti-doctor when it comes to the major diseases as doctors can only treat with band-aids. It's up to all of us to be our own healthcare practitioners and to learn what we can about supporting the body. Finding someone like a Naturopath is a good start in taking that a step further. My respect for Dr. Stricker is immense, for the continued search for answers to this disease, yet the Morgellons community is split between those still looking to their doctors for answers and those that have turned away from traditional meds. So far, I have not seen a Morgellons sufferer cured by medical intervention, yet I've spoken to many who have been injured and made worse. Plus, the long-term antibiotics create havoc in our systems. Who knows what the long-term use of anti-parasitics can do? I would NEVER tell a doctor working with Kaiser that I had this disease. Wow. I just went and looked at your photos. Argh, the pH is bad news for me: not only do I love a lot of high pH foods and drink (tomatoes and coffee in particular), I seem to have a natural inherited tendency toward acid pH to begin with: I have bad teeth and lots of fillings (gotta get that mercury from the silver out when I can afford it!). My mother also has lots of fillings. My *father*, along with his parents and three siblings, ALL had to get dentures---my dad got his when he was 21---because they had such terribly weak and prone to decay teeth. When I discussed this with my dentist, she told me that typically, people who have a tendency to acid will see more tooth decay---people who tend toward base will see more gum disease. She suggested I try to do things to change my pH toward neutral or basic. That was the first time I learned that body pH can affect your health. I hope they take this into account in researching Morgellons. Speaking of body chemistry, apparently in the last few years I've undergone another change, possibly related to menopause: When I was a kid, I loved eating deviled eggs, and liked boiled eggs too... but at about age 15-16, I discovered my body had altered how it reacted. Specifically, we had them with dinner one night---and for a few hours afterwards, my body simply couldn't handle the sulfur in them. It wasn't just that I passed sulfur-smelling gas---that same smell was coming out with my *breath*, plus there was a faint smell of it on my skin. From that point onward, any time I tried to eat boiled/deviled eggs, I got the same reaction... so I quit eating them. (Every few years I'd try one to see if it was still a problem, and it was. I'd even get a moderate reaction at times from eating potato salad, because it had a little bit of boiled egg in it.) So when all this itching/bug crawling stuff started, and I bought the sulfur soap, I thought "Hey, why not eat some deviled eggs to see if my weird body reaction will flush stuff out of my skin?" It's been about 8 years since the last time I ate one, by the way. So, I gleefully fixed some, ate them---and NOTHING. I had one small sulfur-smelling burp, and that was IT. I ate more two days later---same non-reaction. Given that my "inability to process the sulfur in boiled/deviled eggs" came on me during my teens (late puberty), and that it's now *stopped* (menopausal), I would think that this indicates my body chemistry has changed again, in the years since I last tried to eat deviled eggs. I can't help but wonder if this change has played a role in my Morgellon's reaction manifesting. Given that silver-linings are to be cherished, I'm reminding myself to be happy that I can eat deviled eggs again without running my entire family out of the room with the resulting smell!
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Post by Ayla on May 31, 2012 6:43:15 GMT -5
Callen, Diet will determine if you are acid or alkaline. Typical western diet is highly acid. You can affect your alkalinity directly through dietary changes or by drinking baking soda with water.
I too had tons of amalgam fillings in my mouth. Many of those teeth have been now crowned, and some have had root canals (another deadly dental procedure we find out years after the fact). Still have a lot of silver left but if I take them our, my teeth will fall apart as they are like swiss cheese. (sigh) I'm going to just have to live with them the way they are.
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Post by Carrie♥ on Feb 23, 2013 12:07:22 GMT -5
Hi Ayla, the pics in the link aren't found. Do you have them anywhere else I could see? Oh I believe I still have this disease. I just don't have full blown morgs anymore. None of my family does. Carrie, Morgellons is most definitely systemic. If you have any doubt, take a look at the photos of "Morgellons Fibers in urine" on my site (Figs 1-9 midway down the page) as well as "Morgellons fibers in the stool." morgellonsdiseaseawareness.com/photo_galleries/morgellons_fibers_in_urineYou may not be showing signs of the disease but it's still in the body. I think it's a great idea to send the article to your doctors, but going out of the way to make an appt. to share the info. seems unnecessary. They still don't have the information they need to treat it. Even if they could treat it, it would not be treating it on the level that it needs to be addressed on. I'm very anti-doctor when it comes to the major diseases as doctors can only treat with band-aids. It's up to all of us to be our own healthcare practitioners and to learn what we can about supporting the body. Finding someone like a Naturopath is a good start in taking that a step further. My respect for Dr. Stricker is immense, for the continued search for answers to this disease, yet the Morgellons community is split between those still looking to their doctors for answers and those that have turned away from traditional meds. So far, I have not seen a Morgellons sufferer cured by medical intervention, yet I've spoken to many who have been injured and made worse. Plus, the long-term antibiotics create havoc in our systems. Who knows what the long-term use of anti-parasitics can do? I would NEVER tell a doctor working with Kaiser that I had this disease.
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