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?
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?
What TummieGaruda said. It's Lyme disease with a possible coinfection. Talk to a doctor who isn't chasing zebras.
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.
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.
These tests were done yesterday.
Sounds like the House episode "Lines in the Sand". Watch it and thank me later.
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:
So, when I read this: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.
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.
thats the first tl:dr plow post that didnt make me crave cancer
sounds like she needs Lessgellons
Spoiler: show
I'll just see myself out.
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.