Medical Mystery

After years of debate and controversy, the CDC is finally looking into the mysteries of Morgellons, an unexplained and debilitating skin condition that many doctors don't believe exists.

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  • Posted By: stuffsaid @ 04/27/2009 5:33:57 PM

    Immigrants, huh? Diseases don't discriminate, but funny how most of the people suffering seem to be white... How about all those people who who travel, maybe we shouldn't let them back in the country, right?
    ***.
    Adults and children all over the world are dying, suffering, committing suicide because of this and all ya'll can think of immigrants, and your silly bigotry... yeah, let's get rid of those from south of the border, and canada too because it's there, and Australia, South Africa, Europe... hey! and let's do everyone a favor and remove all the bigoted morons that distract from the real issue and give everything less credibility... Morons.

  • Posted By: Russ Lemon @ 10/08/2008 6:50:44 PM

    At the beginning of this year I did have all the symptoms of Morgellons. What I finally found out was that it can be caused by an allergic reaction to genetically modified corn, soy and canola. I found corn tacos can cause an increase in lesions. I found that Fritos can cause cause a reaction. I called up Frito-Lay and they said they use whatever corn the farmers provide. Do read "Seeds of Deception" by Mr. Smith. By avoiding genetically modified food

  • Posted By: Russ Lemon @ 10/08/2008 6:49:22 PM

    At the beginning of this year I did have all the symptoms of Morgellons. What I finally found out was that it can be caused by an allergic reaction to genetically modified corn, soy and canola. I found corn tacos can cause an increase in lesions. I found that Fritos can cause cause a reaction. I called up Frito-Lay and they said they use whatever corn the farmers provide. Do read "Seeds of Deception" by Mr. Smith. By avoiding genetically modified food

  • Posted By: lilsavage31 @ 10/01/2008 11:37:45 AM

    Dear misimmune my name is Deanna Odom and I would like to share things that have helped me! You can reach me through my website ahealthyintent.com and or email me at deanna@ahealthyintent.com Good Luck!!!

  • Posted By: mslong83097 @ 09/16/2008 12:30:31 PM

    I had these fiber like worms when I lived in Charlotte, NC for awhile and then after dealing with them for almost a bugging year and a half they went away! I am a totally sane person. But I felt like they were in my eyes and I thought at times I could see the fibers or black spots like on my feet and I would go after them if it seemed close enough to the surface. I got a few out. Anyway I am just happy they are gone now and never want it again. I also tried all kinds of treatment and one day boom they were gone.

    • Posted By: msimmune @ 10/01/2008 6:33:12 AM

      I live in Charlotte NC and Iwould like to know if anyone started with itch nose or feet and did they have little white stuff coming out the nose area?

  • Posted By: gnations @ 09/16/2008 12:58:38 PM

    I have the same problem described by Odom. I am not a person of anxiety, but I do not like having the constant itching, burning, redness, scales, sore spots, hair coming out, as I have. I have gone to the best doctors at Mayo Clinic and other well know dermatologist. I am always told "contact dermatitis, and have been prescribed Xanax which I also refused to take. Everyone things you are paranoid. I have done much research on the internet, and I have described fully my condition to doctors as I pick up small white biting things from my face and head that look like a grain of salt. Some hard, some soft. I have found a website that describes the problems to a tee and states the condition is caused by parasites. I have used all kinds of lice treatments thinking that might be the problem. I am convinced that parasites is the cause and that I caught them by foreign shipments we received or in my foreign travel. I am in the aviation business and have been for 30 years.

    • Posted By: hairysgirl53 @ 09/16/2008 1:16:54 PM

      Hello, gnations, I have had the same problems and doctors telling me I was fine, when my face was so broke out, due to my hair-clinging to my face and depositing some white transparant particles, or parasites, that would stick to the bathroom mirror, if I flung my wet hair towards it. We all know we have something wrong with us and no help from the doctors. But I wanted to know what website you found that described your condition, so I could look at it, if possible please. Thank you. rjd_1069

      • Posted By: msimmune @ 10/01/2008 6:20:17 AM

        I also work for the aviation business,but I think I had this parasite before working for the airlines, You are correct the parsite sufferer describes it ti a tee. Nothing kills it............has anyone discovered a way to help with the scalp? Has anyone had sucess with acquiring disability? I can barely stand to wear clothes for more than a few hours. I'm convinced the creams prescribed is like food for them. EVERYONE THIS IS NOT A MENTAL DISORDER.!!!!!! I'M ALMOST SURE ALL OF US WHO SUFFER HAVE SOME FLAW IN OUR IMMUNE SYSTEMS. THE DOCTOR THAT CAN'T accept failure to diagnose should book his psych appointment.

    • Posted By: mslong83097 @ 09/16/2008 1:02:41 PM

      I tried lice and parasite treatments too! It didnt work.

  • Posted By: desertphoenix @ 09/16/2008 5:23:49 PM

    Deport, huh? The US economy would die without the immigrants we deem illegal. Who would do all the work most Americans are too spoiled to do? Wake up and smell the roses, because there is no way the US government will ever deport all illegal immigrants, because it is something on which they will always turn a blind eye.

    • Posted By: Ladymunchkin @ 09/21/2008 12:49:22 PM

      Who do you think did the work before we were invaded by 3rd world countries. Or have you forgotten about the American Citizens that built this country. We spent #338 BIllion supporting illegal's last year alone. Ice states it would take about $94 billion to round up and deport all the illegal's in this country. What would you like to do with what's left over? How about we educate some of our kids, or maybe offer medial care to those that can't afford it. Maybe pay to finish the fence on the border and hire some more agents to patrol it!
      This country was fine before they invaded it and it will be fine after they are gone. Maybe once they leave our wages will go back to a place where Americans can take these jobs again.

  • Posted By: Ladymunchkin @ 09/16/2008 4:56:40 PM

    Another disease courtesy of the invasion of illegal's from 3rd world countries. This disease is well known in South America. Maybe the CDC needs to send someone south to check it out. This is what happens when people sneak into a country and are not health screened. So many diseases that were eradicated in this country are now showing up again. Time to seal our border and deport, deport, deport!

    • Posted By: Fedupwithlies @ 09/16/2008 6:30:06 PM

      Here here...I'm a solid Democrat and I completely reject the idea that we can't deport twelve miillion illegle immigrants...Nonsense!! Round em' up and throw em out!!!

      • Posted By: Ladymunchkin @ 09/21/2008 12:44:23 PM

        This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an American issue. Our country is on the brink of losing it's sovereignty because of traitorous politicians that would rather pander to lobbyists that to serve the American people that elected them. Try to remember that there are other viable options this election besides the 2 candidates that the CFR, The Trilateral Commission and Big business have left use to choose from. Please look at these options and decide what you want for this great nation. Another 4 or 8 years of the same thing or someone that will actually abide by the oath of office to Serve, Protect and Defend the United States of America. No Amnesty, No NAU !!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: wentsouth @ 09/21/2008 8:24:50 AM

    To the Democrat that thinks we can't deport them,Yes we can! Do your part moron,stand up for your Country.
    Don't forget Cysticercosis that is a parasite the illegal aliens are passing from their hands to our food and you don't know you have it til it travels to your brain and you go into seizures and its not from the USA either. I was a Democrat,I am now an Independant! If President Dwight D.Eisenhower could capture and deport over 3 million in 1954,we can deport 47 million! Do your home work sir, its not 12 million,the 12 million are just the ones on expired visa's. We have an immgration bill in my State in place. If you were a
    true American you would get one in your state. My grown children whom are well educated and qualified
    for many jobs are both unemployed. The Congress and Senate have done nothing for the American
    people for the last 12 years. I agree with the other person who said DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT! All these diseases are real go look them up at the CDC and your own health department.

  • Posted By: Az Fred @ 09/16/2008 4:08:33 PM

    Texas,california,florida,the three states with the highest concentrations of illegal aliens,huh...imagine that,along with polio,tb,chagas,and multiple diseases these sub humans are spreading across this nation,as they colapse our economy too. Thanks George Bush for the guest workers,you moron. Fred Miller/Arizona

    • Posted By: wentsouth @ 09/21/2008 8:09:09 AM

      Don't forget Cysticercosis that is a parasite the illegal aliens are passing from their hands to our food and you don't know you have it til it travels to your brain and you go into seizures and its not from the USA either. I was a Democrat,I am now an Independant! If President Dwight D.Eisenhower could capture and deport over 3 million in 1954,we can deport 47 million! Do your home work sir, its not 12 million,the 12 million are just the ones on expired visa's. We have an immgration bill in my State in place. If you were a
      true American you would get one in your state. My grown children whom are well educated and qualified
      for many jobs are both unemployed. The Congress and Senate have done nothing for the American
      people for the last 12 years. I agree with the other person who said DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT!

  • Posted By: marty1969 @ 09/20/2008 6:02:57 AM

    Ok a big hug for you

  • Posted By: breyerluvr1 @ 09/16/2008 4:16:07 PM

    Just because something is rare does not mean that it does not exist. Look at the rare brain-eating amoeba causing 5 deaths that has been linked to Lake Elsinore. One of them a young boy. When are they going to close that lake to swimming anyway? After my schooling in college with parasitology classes, I am a firm believer that humans should be treated for parasites every 5 or 10 years for prevention, when they get a tetnus shot booster. Humans are mammals who live in close contact with dogs, horses and cats who can be infested and spread some internal parasites. However, most people think they are above animals and would would be mortified to think they could have an internal parasite. It's embarassing and humiliating to ask for treatment, it should be routine. After getting a puppy and not realizing he had worms for 2 months, my kids got infected. We didn't know for a year later. When treated my 2 year old did pass worms. Reasearch this ...when left untreated it can cause blindness in children. Never ever bring a new pet into the home without treating it for worms first! I think they should test by treating with ivermectin to see if it is a parasite.

    • Posted By: jamaclaypod @ 09/19/2008 12:40:06 PM

      A few morgellons sufferers have been given Ivermectin, and it was ineffective. Therein lies the real problem; Nothing seems to work. A handfull of folks who beat the disease (including me) got treated by caring doctors. We augmented with supplements, changed our diets and refused to accept the rediculous diadnosis of delusion. And yes, I went to see a shrink...who told me I definitely had something in my skin, and that I was no more delusional than he was, but that he didn't know what it was. He even let me pour over his desk reference book to see if I could find anything, God bless him. I couldn't. I was given some antibiotics for a horrible kidney infection, and found the sores disappearing! Combined with a no-acid diet and two day fasts, high doses of vitamins and zinc and prayers, I prevailed.

  • Posted By: marty1969 @ 09/18/2008 4:31:00 AM

    to jamaclaypod....why is it we don't hear of this "disease" in other countries????? Maybe because they are not drug dependent blamers. Maybe these people could actually look inside themselves for the answer for a change?!!! And of course your only rebuke is to attack someone else. It just shows how your only recourse to your own ill feeling toward the medical community is to attack with nothing else but rambling BS. Wait I have an idea....get a medical degree....novel idea for someone who sits on their couch and attacks people on the internet

    • Posted By: jamaclaypod @ 09/19/2008 11:47:43 AM

      If you knew what you were talking about, you would know that Morgellons is found worldwide, in Australia, Canada, the UK and many more countries. Doctors and nurses, psychiatrists, physical therapists and one dermatologist have it. Teachers, sports figures, children, the elderly and just about every demographic are registered at morgellons.org, and 12,000 people are not enjoying a mass "delusion" as you suggest. If you don't believe it is a real disease, how about giving me a big hug?

  • Posted By: Molita @ 09/16/2008 4:33:09 PM

    Knowledge is power. The chemtrails are causing this and all you have to do is look up to the sky. Those are not always "contrails" yet CHEMtrails - barium, aluminum, all sorts of metals are being released into our atmosphere. In fact our atmosphere has not been the same since the Chemtrails started in 1999. Check out carnicom.com for a real eye opener. Dr. Gwen Scott was interviewed & knows all about the morgellons & how to counter act the exposure yet EVERYONE needs to wake up. This is a global problem - it's happening all over the earth - high reconnisance airplanes spewing chemtrails which cause the "global dimming". Is this a part of CERN? HAARP? Research it yourself or stay ignornant.

    • Posted By: ceanf9 @ 09/17/2008 4:47:05 PM

      ha! aahhhh! haaaah! get some help buddy. theres a nice article on schizophrenia recently posted on the site. you should read it. i think it applies.

  • Posted By: Fedupwithlies @ 09/16/2008 6:21:49 PM

    i agrree that illegle immigrants could bring dieseases with them and spread them throughout the population....However, I would remind everyone...that Bush is a criminal, not an idiot, and has srurrounded himself with other criiminals... and they have enablers in the U.S. Congress and the American populace who benefit from their lies...It all comes down to the New World Order his father championed...and they - Bush & Cheney and it - the New World Order doesn't care if you get sick

    • Posted By: ceanf9 @ 09/17/2008 4:40:44 PM

      post where somebody cares dumb_a$s

  • Posted By: booka @ 09/16/2008 8:16:42 PM

    Oh, please. CFS and fibromyalgia do not exist and neither does Morgellons. It's all the same - it's in the complaining one's head, purely psychological. All the reputable studies have shown this to be true.

    • Posted By: ceanf9 @ 09/17/2008 4:39:15 PM

      yes cite please

    • Posted By: jenninspired @ 09/16/2008 10:31:12 PM

      how about you cite some of those studies?

  • Posted By: jamaclaypod @ 09/17/2008 3:26:59 PM

    Meffert should have his license revoked. He and other arogant doctors like him should get Morgellons, literally. All you other idiots (such as you, pest control fool) should get it too, since you would develope some compassion for those suffering, then. How is it that we always want to kick someone when they're down, slap the face of people by telling them they are imagining what they know they are not, and generally add insult to injury? Shut your mouths and open your minds. Until Kaiser publishes its findings, the jury is still out, and we should wait to know what we are taling about, lest we sound too nutty. The causative agent (s) behind this disease may be something much less dramatice than alien infections, chem trail exposure, genetically engineered foods, etc., but somehting is there. It may not be as big as the elephant we are used to looking for on that lab slide, but something more on the nano scale. I would love a good government cover up or some other controversy, but Its probably gonna turn out to be a fungus or something. Let's wait until scientific study brings us the answers. In the mean time, SHAME ON YOU, Dr. Meffert! Booo Hisss! You and other doctors like you are exactly why Morgellons is a nightmare. I beat my Morgellons, as have a handful of others. Am I having another delusion? Your logic is faulty. Most of us Morgellons sufferers were fine until we became infected. All of a sudden, we're delusional? If I caught a cold, and then recovered, was the cold a delusion? Is your medical training a delusion? That one, I might believe, you puts.

  • Posted By: marty1969 @ 09/17/2008 1:19:49 AM

    See a psychologist please. I am in the pest control industry and have had several customers who "claim" to have bugs crawling under their skin. All I can tell them is to see a doctor and when they do I never hear from them again. I think most of these "bugs or skin crawling episodes is delusional parasitosis. Why didn't the woman is the story above at least try anti-depressants? Maybe she thought it might help her? Then all of the attention wouldn't be on her anymore.

  • Posted By: Winkle @ 09/16/2008 8:10:50 PM

    Why is it when we really need a doctor,THEY ARE NEVER THERE FOR YOU !!I to suffer with morgellons,been to many Drs. and they are all the same.Can you go to a clinic and ask to see an intern medicine Doctor and GET a stool, blood,and skin sample taken and test it?I have a Dr. but she would rather tell me I have stress,and 90%of the world suffers from stress !Who is getting RICH..I now have it for 2 years after spending 1 month last year and 1month this year in FLORIDA..Califorina,Texas,and Florida are HOT SPOTS for this disease.The tests are in Oakland Califorina and people from there are being tested on.I worry about BIO Ingeneered foods.Chem trail especially if a test went BAD who suffers US. But no one would admit that would they .I TO AM FED UP WITH LIES OR COVER UPS!!! POSTED by HELPLESS

  • Posted By: vsb7777 @ 09/16/2008 7:30:38 PM

    I've never heard of this disease before, but I know one thing: this Mefferts character's reaction shows that he is too biased and emotional to be involved. The people who complaining about their symptoms have "pissed him off"? I wouldn't go to a doctor who was biased against thinking there was anything wrong with me before they even heard me out. Women have experienced this for many years with diseases that male doctors dismissed as being "all in their heads". Yet now we know that diseases like lupus, chronic fatigue symdrome, and postpartum depression really exist. If Prof. Mefferts isn't willing to acknowledge that there at least might be something going on here that should be further investigated, then maybe he should sit back, get out of the way, and let people with the objectivity to investigate this disease with an open mind get on with it.

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