I have one friend who sends me pictures of her leighmaniasis and her lesions produce fibers, insects, plants and other crap. If you don't have other symptoms now, you may later. If you feel good the way you are, that's your choice, but I would hope you would at least tell your doctor you are self-treating for leishmaniasis.
Were you in the military recently?
Do you remember being bitten by a little teeny sand fly?
I have a doctor? An "MD"? I am done with MD's.
The bizarro "hey my skin is melting and I'm growing
fibers everywhere" didn't appear until AFTER several courses of
antibiotics that were prescribed [more or less randomly].
"Let's try these and see what happens". Allopath roulette.
Just pick a few pretty pills from the PDR and observe the results.
No knowledge needed, really. Don't need to do tests to get clues
as to what is going on, just toss prescription darts at them. You
might get lucky, suppress the symptoms and be thought quite the hero.
Or the "good doc" might wipe out most of the useful gut bacteria and yield the
terrain to fungi and other villainous whatever's..that then overgrow
and start expressing really weird crepe' all over the body.
Three years of being abused by "doctors" in quite enough.
None of them could wrap their heads around the concept that lesions
can be produced in ways other than self inflicted excoriation.
Never mind the bumps that are plainly visible everywhere.
Oh, I suppose I brought those on as well. No curiosity about those
either.
One md jackass scribbles "DOP" in my medical record, and everyone else
just nods their head in agreement; they are off the hook. They have
no obligation to waste their limited time and even more
limited intellect on helping "crazy people." The only benefit to be seen from spending thousands of
dollars on "doctor's help" was an expensive lesson in how greedy and
treacherous they are as a group.
The derms could not be bothered to investigate why the PhD pathologist
mentioned mycelia growing beneath the cornified layers of the skin
and yet the stain tests indicated negative results for fungi.
" you see? it's not fungus..it's just you..scratching yourself..go see one
of the head shrinkers on this list and get some nice brain meds
to make you feel so much better "
My special favorite was the generalist with "30 years experience" that
could not get thru a basic medical exam. He had no interest in doing
anything for a measly $150...he wanted me to scurry off to an imaging
center for CAT/MRI workups..to support his "MS" theory. "You have no
insurance, you cannot afford the imaging tests, I can't help you".
[doc basically disappeared on me after that..hey, I can take a hint.]
Asshat. Doc don't want cash payments..he wants an insurance policy
to milk dry. Typical of his tribe these days.
Fascinating to see the quantum leap from "complaints of chronic pain"
to "Multiple Sclerosis " in five minutes flat...and the jump from
"take your blood pressure and temp" to "you need to go to ACME Imaging
Specialists next..[he's gotta get his kickback from ACME on a 10-15-20,000
for an imaging series, that's where the real money is.]
A curse on them and their mustaches...
This blister/lesion phenomena began in 1998. [although the lesions didn't
really get roaring until 2009.] If this was "untreated lesh" I should be deceased by now.
Military service was long ago, never served in any of the current popular
"sandbox" theaters of operation...and there were damn few sandflies
to be seen in a submarine.