According to reports, there are numbers greater than 14,000 families whom are suffering from Morgellons Disease. These families have children and ha...
According to reports, there are numbers greater than 14,000 families whom are suffering from Morgellons Disease. These families have children and having the skin condition made them deprive from their ideal childhood days. Kids with Morgellons find it difficult to be fully involved and be engaged in recreational activities with friends and colleagues involving sports and leisure activities. Some have even “dropped out of life” or not even attend school because of fatigue, discomforts and trouble with mental concentration. Same goes with adult who are loosing their jobs due to the same condition. Sadly, this figure will continuously grow unless the mystery behind Morgellons is solved.
Morgellons also termed as Unexplained Dermopathy by CDC is a condition involving skin lesions with fibers-like protrusions accompanied by sensations described as crawling, stinging, and biting which occur all through out the body. Other symptoms are chronic fatigue, cognitive impairment, and depression. This condition is associated to Lyme disease, Delusional Parasitosis, Chronic fatigue syndrome, OCD (obsessive compulsion disorder) and ADHD (Attention deficit and Hyperactive disorder) due to its diverse symptoms.
Morgellons continues to challenge physicians and other health care professionals regarding its true nature and complexity, provided of the symptoms ranging from skin up to neurological manifestations. People who claim to have such skin disorder experience diverse clinical signs and symptoms such as crawling, stinging and biting sensations beneath the cutaneous layer; rashes or oozing sore with fibers-like protrusions which varies from white, red, black or blue. Aside from the skin symptoms, some patients exhibit mental confusion, short term memory loss, visual changes, depression, and behavioral changes which are all considered as neurological.
Although the medical community has no firm stand about the skin condition, some patients are treated symptomatically. They are given symptomatic relief rather than a permanent cure. Some patients undergo antibiotic therapy similar to those with Lyme’s disease and it yields to some positive result but if halted, signs and symptoms reoccur.
Unfortunately, what causes this skin condition is not yet identified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Morgellons Research Foundation. Although research has been made they failed to gather sufficient data about this condition. However, they found out that Morgellons is contagious and might spread to family members once a member has contracted the disease. Organizations and health institutions are continuously taking action in order to stop this mysterious epidemic.
Have you ever suffered from lice, eczema especially being blamed on stress, neurodermatitis (simple eczema made worse scratching it), tinea (a bad fungal infection of the hair , skin or nails), folloculitis (an infection of the hair roots), cellulites (a skin infection), seborrhea, impetigo ( a rash caused by a bacterial infection), obsessive or compulsive skin scratching or drug side effects?
Sounds like symptoms of Scabies. Not at all. You might just be suffering from Morgellons disease. This is a new disease which even doctors are just beginning to understand and recognize in their patients with skin rashes and disorders. Actually, scabies is the closest thing to Morgellons if any other disease can be said to be similar in appearance and morphology.
But when should one really suspect have contracted the Morgellons disease? These are some of the symptoms that are associated with it and different from those of Scabies. – Rashes ( non healing sores on skin) – Continuous itching or a burning sensation under your skin as if something was moving there. – Feeling as if there are insects or fibers under your skin – Fatigue – Loss of concentration
The symptoms of Morgellons and similar disease states include any of a number of symptoms. The basic rash, tiredness down to a standard description of exhaustion. The feeling and feelings of something crawling under the patient’s skin. Fibers and fibrils. Insects emerging, coming and going from eruptions in the outer layers of the epidermis etc etc etc. Often though as in most people with serious, chronic diseases it is not simply a matter of one simple isolated medical disorder. It is not only a case that these poor people are rundown and are prone to other afflictions, infections and even epidemics as well. Being run down and even immunodeficient and immune-suppressed not only by the passage of time of their affliction but also by the various treatments they have been subjected to and endured , they may and most likely do suffer from a whole raft of other ailments and medical disorders. It seems that if you as a patient have morgelons disease you most likely have something or lots of other medical conditions as well. These concurrent ailments make the diagnosis all the more difficult to obtain if not also to seek therapy and therapies.
Every day greater awareness towards understanding of Morgellons Disease is developing. Research and education is ongoing. Shortly treatments will be made available. With all the efforts and with greater understanding more and more will be known about this specific disease and its therapy and treatments. Yet it may well be tool late in time for many who have suffered along with this terrible ailment and disorder only to be effectively ignored or are best told that they are simply “crazy”. After all, for living along with and through this terrible ordeal, suicide is not unknown for these victims of this little known and oft acknowledged medical and emotional condition.
When it comes to Morgellons Disease or Morgellons it all depends who you talk to , what they read and ultimately what they believe. If you are lucky then your doctor or “Health Care Professional” is well read , up to date and actually believes all in all that first Morgellons Disease or Syndrome is a real world illness or condition and that secondly you are not trying just to scam them to be able to claim company or insurance policy disability payments to lead the “easy life” at everyone else’s ( who are also healthy and well) expense and efforts.
The signs and symptoms of Morgellons Disease and Syndrome are many and varied . Not all people and patients and people who claim to have the disorder seem to suffer in the same way or manner. On top of that add in exhaustion and mental fatigue. On top of that when they tell their medical providers and even families that they feel something always moving around under their skin , that they have even seen insects fly out of rashes on epidermis of their skin along with fibers that seem to grow on a regular and irregular basis from their skin – no one seems to believe them. To many these people are nothing but malingerers out to scam the medical and insurance systems. The problem is basically , that unlike Lyme Disease , Morgellons is not a recognized disease by majority of the medical community and as well , unlike Lyme Disease there is no simple test to diagnose the illness and malady accurately as well as quickly. Many of those who believe that they do have this illness , and it is a real illness , find that after a time , they may give up on the conventional medical community and seek “alternative medicine”.
From time to time, individuals may find that they can pull things out from under their wounds. Those things will have the visual aspect of being crystals or granules. Another symptom that is the most common is pain. The pain that forms will be taking place in the joints, muscular tissue and connective tissues.
There are also instances where individuals will be suffering from a lot of tiredness or cognitive dysfunction. This is often referred to as being brain fog. This symptom can cause individuals to have problems with their memory as well as problems with their concentration. It could make it impossible to pay attention to anything at all.
Many of those who are tormented by this ailment and potential infirmity find that after either being ignored or being treated in what might be considered either a sub-maximal or substandard way go on to seek help and therapy in the less conventional , though innovative arena of “Alternative Medicine”. Then again they may be easy pickings for those who prey on the apparent and real sufferings of others less fortunate than themselves. It can be said that although Western Trained Medicine and its practitioners are somewhat conservative and claim to be fact based , at least they are self policing within their own communities and keep oddballs and incompetent members of their apparent communities in check.
What a life to have been given the sentence of Morgellons Disease. If only there was a test – or titer – for Morgellons . No one used to believe those who had M.S. in its early stages. Neurological symptoms along with tiredness , pain and exhaustion came and went out of the blue with no apparent cause. Its only when the Muscular Sclerosis went along its progressive disease development and path in patients was the disorder recognized in the patient and care given. Now however with modern medicine high tech scans can easily rule out or identify M.S. as the culprit dealing with the patient’s health and apparent health-wise decline. M.S. sufferers in early stage disease states are not taken seriously and therapy initiated promptly. You would hope that the same scenario and scenarios would come to pass in the lives and medical treatment of those afflicted with Morgellons in its various forms and stages.
