Hi Toni,
What are you using as the pointed object under your scope? I have been looking for a small long needle with a handle. I would like to look at some of the goo clumps to see if I can find mites. I take Ivermectine a couple times a month so I should not have any, but if I find them then its not killing anything. The only thing I have to combat this is Ivermectine and Dawn dishwashing soap. I don't have leasions like most but still find colored fibers comming out of my body and I am still very sick.
Anyway back to the pointer you have?
Hi Lostintime,
Oh, my pointer...heheh it's always a sewing needle.
It may look huge in the video's but that's only because
of the magnification.
If you can get like a pack of sewing needles at a fabric
store, each pack has a combination of different sized
needles, widths and lengths.
If you want the needle longer, just tape two together,
one extended beyond the other, then tape it.
Hope that makes sense.
Sometimes I take a sewing needle and carefully run it
across super fine sand paper too, just to give it more of
a flat egde on one side, which makes it easier for when
I want to squash a specimen under the scope.
Make sure they're stainless needles too, they don't rust
if you want to burn them to sterlize them.
I always "put a needle eyefull of water" on my specimens
also to hydrate them, because once they become dry, there's
no squashing anything out from what's inside them.
Because if the specimens are dry, and you touch them with
a needle, they'll go flinging off the slide, never to be found
again since they're so tiny.
But, when they're real wet and pliable, they squash nice
and easily - only have to have a real steady hand since
these specimens that contain demodex are just about
as tiny as a speck of dust.
It takes a bit of examining your specimens under 60-100
times magnification to see the mites, and I realize how
many times I saw them before, but ignored them because
I didn't think they were anything till I really zoomed in on
them, then I saw them. Once you do recognize them
amongst your stuff, you'll see, they're there. Just takes
a bit of experience, and understanding how small they
really are.
(They say: everyone has them)....but my question is,
are we really suppose to have them? And what if they're
carrying pathogens no differently than any other parasite
does.
And I'm very sorry to hear you're feeling so sick. I sure
do hope something can help you feel better.
You're taking Ivermectin and using dishsoap you said.
Imho, which is only that....It seems to me that's why
the (anti-bacterial) dish soap helps so well, as I've been
using that for years now too, and because it's anti-bacterial,
even demodex mites carry 2 bacteriums they're aware of,
which the antibacterial soap helps kill too.
The Ivermectin (also only another imho) is a good thing too
taken twice a month (during the lunar cycles) as weird as
that sounds, but....in all reality, it's not, because not only
are all things affected by the lunar cycles, so are insects
in their egg laying times/cycles, so it's a good time to really
make that Ivermectin work even better by getting them
when they're hatching. Just make sure (imho) that for
every chemical you put in your body, you do something very
good and healthy for your body.
That's what I believe has helped me stay afloat basically.
For all the meds/chems I've used and take, I deliberately
make sure I balance it out with something good and helpful
for my body.
Like the Ivermectin when I took that for 6 months.
I took Milk Thistle and Versicolor Coriolus too. Those
give 'extra support' to our livers - since they really do take
a beating when we take any meds, even aspirins.
And Acidophilus, which helps maintain our body gut flora.
Those are only a couple of things to always take hand in
hand when taking (Ivermectin) or even anything that's
by script, imho....because scripted meds really do throw
the body balance off, so we just need to give the body
a hand for what we're doing to it, in trying to rid this stuff.