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Post by belikewater on Jul 5, 2006 18:49:24 GMT -5
A simple finding. I got in the hot tub at the health club, today and it was good and hot, about 104 F. I stayed in about `1/2 hour. My skin was itching and prickling like from 1000 acupuncture needles. I could see the little white spikules sticking out of every pore on my arms.
When I got out I sat for a few minutes and had the urge to briskly towel off with my stiff terry towel. I rubbed off the top layer of skin. It came off easially, but then the 'sticky, weeping goo' started to coat my arms and legs.
On a whim, as I think there is a fungus/mold relationship, here, I pulled out my Head and Shoulders shampoo and rubbed some into the gooey areas on my arms and legs. A bunch of black fibers popped out, then nothing.
I showered off and lo and behold, the itching was gone and the stickey goo was gone, leaving baby soft, dry skin.
The Head and Shoulders I used was the one with 'pyrithione zinc'. Skin still non-sticky hour and a half later.
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Post by mikey on Jul 5, 2006 18:58:14 GMT -5
Execellent, let us know how long the good feeling / non-itchy-ness last. I use head and shoulders everyday, have for years (just by coincidence). Did the top layer of skin come off your whole body? Could be a few of those treatments and maybe, possibly? I'm hoping for you ...
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Post by belikewater on Jul 5, 2006 19:09:29 GMT -5
Optimistic, great name. Well, I see it as symptom rlelief, not a cure. I am waiting for Lyme results and will see Lyme specialist Dr. next week. I think, much to my worry, that I probably have a systemic mold or fungus. Well, I am still alive and fairly rational, so I just need to keep trucking to figure this out. Nice to not be sitting here covered in goo, right now, though.
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Post by mikey on Jul 5, 2006 19:19:53 GMT -5
I totally agree on the systemic mold/fungus, I'm thinking even the fungus "candida tropicalis"
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Post by belikewater on Jul 6, 2006 16:54:44 GMT -5
I started to feel a little sticky this morning in my inner elbow area. I am itchy, again, now, but not too bad, 24 hours later.
However, it is 4 days to the full moon. Last FM was when my last itchy episode really hit.
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Post by mikey on Jul 6, 2006 20:04:16 GMT -5
So that's strange but good in a way, you had a whole new layer of fresh virgin skin waiting there for you, this is very good to know, you're body shed the old skin as it was dead, almost like a scab or something (more like a lizard shedding probably is a better but strange metaphore). So, I'm kind of suprised your itchy, however, that might not be morgellons, could be the natural healing process, whatever was in your dead skin is gone, I find it hard to believe that whatever causes morgellons, if a parasite, was already under your new layer of skin? Fungus/Candida? If it was a parasite the bulk of them (and I'm not a believer in them) would have surely been in that skin, feeding.
Also, I was curious, did it fall off in like pieces of huge dead skin or really just disolve?
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Post by belikewater on Jul 7, 2006 15:48:34 GMT -5
When I rubbed with the stiff towel, the skinn came off in little rolls, very normal, just taking off the old dead top layer.
However, this is my current thinking from observation on myself: I think the mold/fungus is deeper in my skin than the top layer. I saw the white forms stuck down in my pores when my deeper lesion broke open. These white spikes produce the black fuzz-balls, fibers and spikules, all black, on me. I think regularly, the black forms are pushed up out of the skin through the hair follicles, line of least resistance. Just becuse the black forms appear, it still means the white fungus (?) is still harbored, down in the deeper pores, attached to the capillaries.
I think the white mold/fungus, at a certain stage, grows up its white hypha to protrude out the hair follicle. These are the white spikules I have seen in pictures and in my own skin. Thousands of these small, white protrusions.
I got a needle and tried to pry out some of these white spikules. They were growing just under the thin, top layer of skin. I followed several of them, peeling off a track of my skin each time, but could never reach the end of one. They just broke off, eventually. In my current thinking, they are just hyphal extensions of the grosser forms imbeded deeper in the skin. Maybe when the deeper forms have dumped their load of black particles, they then extend up to the surface.
I think a lot of my itching is coming from this hyphal(?) growth under and through the upper layers of skin. When I peeled off this layer with the towel, I peeled much of this growth away. I still got oozing goo and black fibers from the deeper forms. However the Head and Shoulders caused these reactions to back off.
I am starting to ooze today and slightly itchy. Back to the hot tub. I am also finding exercise improves my mood and physical well-being.
Good luck to us all.
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Post by mikey on Jul 7, 2006 20:03:14 GMT -5
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Post by bannanny on Jul 8, 2006 6:02:41 GMT -5
belikewater..........I'm going thru another real bad stage, so I'm not gonna say much tonight, but first I'm so happy you had SOME relief. I wish it would've lasted forever for ya!
I have the white spikes also, mostly from the tips of my fingers and my arms. But more so on my arms, I have the tiny curled up fibers (like floaties) that get ejected thru the hairs. From my head (where the war began) I have the tiny white fibers, the long (almost invisible) black fibers, clear red fibers and "crystal pods". Then there's the "clear tubes" and the sticky gel substance. Seems to me that it's this gel that anchors the "tube" and then surrounds it in order to give it protection. The tube releases the "crystal pods" and possibly the white fibers and spikes....maybe even the black fibers. And I think the gel substance is what gives the fibers the ability to INSTANTLY transform into a hard pod of cement the second it becomes threatened.
Anyhow, I just wanted to say that I agree with you 200 percent that mold is playing a possible 2nd to the actual morg itself. I think the morgs found mold would be very beneficial to it as a transport system (so to speak) to invade and penetrate any surface. Morgs IS the great mimic and it seems to have alot of the same properties as mold. AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! OK, I'm gettin a little confusing again.....can't think, so I'm gonna sleep as much as the morgs will allow. I hope your next hot tub is as refreshing as the last!
Luv ya's ~~~ bannanny
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