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    I was curious and did some reading on Morgellons and found this:

    http://www.morgellons-research.org/m...lons-intro.htm

    Maybe check for Lyme Disease?

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    What TummieGaruda said. It's Lyme disease with a possible coinfection. Talk to a doctor who isn't chasing zebras.

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    Ok so I just told her about the lyme disease thing and she said he tested her for that but he won't have any results for a few more days. I hope these tests come back with something more conclusive than this diagnosis she received.

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    Lab work takes literally minutes to finish. If liver enzymes were elevated to failure level, I'd imagine her doc would let her know by now (critical lab values have to be called to doctors within 30 minutes of results, that's a joint commission requirement). Lyme disease tests take about a day. Blood cultures take a few days to grow.

    If any of these were positive, I would think she would have been contacted if she had taken the tests more than a day or two ago.

    I'm not going to assume your doctor is a complete loon. He's an infectious disease specialist and you said he's see two cases in his career. He isn't handing out the diagnosis like candy, so I wouldn't think he's in the "zebra chasing" business. And it's always better to listen to a licensed practitioner that has years of study and practice over internet tin foil hats. Regardless, seeing another doctor isn't going to hurt. Maybe a doctor that has a history with parasitic infections. It sounds like the doctor you've seen has done appropriate tests. And it seems you've probably seen a few of them at this point. Regardless, this is fascinating. Keep us up to date.

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    These tests were done yesterday.

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    Sounds like the House episode "Lines in the Sand". Watch it and thank me later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tyven View Post
    Sounds like the House episode "Lines in the Sand". Watch it and thank me later.
    My all time favorite episode. The last 30 seconds of that episode smashed me with feels.

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    The reality is that if there's real physical shit that anyone can see going on, it's not "Morgellons." (by anyone I mean lots of people, not anyone as in vs no one)

    Morgellons is officially defined as a mental disorder because nobody can actually find any connecting physical problem between the people that suffer from it, and study has revealed nothing but the results of obsessively scratching and picking.

    Here is the most detailed publicly available study I know of:

    http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0029908

    key points:

    Results

    We identified 115 case-patients. The prevalence was 3.65 (95% CI = 2.98, 4.40) cases per 100,000 enrollees. There was no clustering of cases within the 13-county KPNC catchment area (p = .113). Case-patients had a median age of 52 years (range: 17–93) and were primarily female (77%) and Caucasian (77%). Multi-system complaints were common; 70% reported chronic fatigue and 54% rated their overall health as fair or poor with mean Physical Component Scores and Mental Component Scores of 36.63 (SD = 12.9) and 35.45 (SD = 12.89), respectively. Cognitive deficits were detected in 59% of case-patients and 63% had evidence of clinically significant somatic complaints; 50% had drugs detected in hair samples and 78% reported exposure to solvents. Solar elastosis was the most common histopathologic abnormality (51% of biopsies); skin lesions were most consistent with arthropod bites or chronic excoriations. No parasites or mycobacteria were detected. Most materials collected from participants' skin were composed of cellulose, likely of cotton origin.

    Conclusions

    This unexplained dermopathy was rare among this population of Northern California residents, but associated with significantly reduced health-related quality of life. No common underlying medical condition or infectious source was identified, similar to more commonly recognized conditions such as delusional infestation.
    So, when I read this:

    Quote Originally Posted by Smokie View Post
    Yes it is crazy but very real whats she's going through and not just in her head. It all started with the lower right part of her jaw itching and what she thought was pimples. Turned into an unhealable sore which spread soon after white worm type thing started to come out of her skin and even eyes. We've seen the worms or threads come out of her stool, urine, vomit, and the eye doctor even saw them in her eye when she went to see him cause it was bothering her vision. Also her PCP and a Emergency room doctor first saw her and both recommended she go see the specialist.

    As far as the moving of the specks are concerned yes they pop up in different places very frequently and when you squeeze them they have the white things in them. The doctor collected samples of them and when he went to re-examine the spot where he took them from they came back. His only response was unusual. And to answer someones question he is a M.D.

    They've done a full blood workup but the complete results wont come back for 2 more days and I'm not sure if that includes a workup on her liver. But I will be sure to ask when we hear from him.
    My immediate reaction is that's not even close to sounding like Morgellons.

    The strongest proponents of Morgellons as a real thing are talking about shit they've picked from their bodies that you can't see in any detail at all without serious magnification...

    And how it's clearly nanotechnology implanted in their skin, probably by aliens or parasites that attached themselves to a space shuttle.


    Long story short, you need to go see more doctors. Preferably ones that don't diagnose shit they can see as a disease of hallucination.

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    thats the first tl:dr plow post that didnt make me crave cancer

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    sounds like she needs Lessgellons

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    Quote Originally Posted by Qalbert View Post
    sounds like she needs Lessgellons
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    Quote Originally Posted by Qalbert View Post
    sounds like she needs Lessgellons
    edit nvm

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    Spoiler: show
    If you're making the s mean plural, it would be fewergellons



    I'll just see myself out.

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    Man, regardless of what it turns out to be, sorry to hear. I hope your wife gets well. Any update on this?
    And yes, I've been hanging out at kind places lately.

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