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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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Feb 7, 2008 | Updated: 3:41  p.m. ET Feb 7, 2008

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

    Comment: 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

    Comment: 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

    Comment: 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: wentsouth @ 09/21/2008 8:24:50 AM

    Comment: 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: marty1969 @ 09/20/2008 6:02:57 AM

    Comment: Ok a big hug for you

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

    Comment: 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

      Comment: 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: jamaclaypod @ 09/17/2008 3:26:59 PM

    Comment: 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

    Comment: 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: booka @ 09/16/2008 8:16:42 PM

    Comment: 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

      Comment: yes cite please

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

      Comment: how about you cite some of those studies?

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

    Comment: 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

    Comment: 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.

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

    Comment: 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

      Comment: post where somebody cares dumb_a$s

  • Posted By: jenninspired @ 09/16/2008 6:21:34 PM

    Comment: I'm glad to see more mention of both chemtrails and gmo's. I've had hair analysis done for some clients, and they all have inexplicably high levels of barium and strontium. hmmm.
    As to what to do...energy effects everything. Energy-work to offer some balance for these new elements in our system...worth trying. Reference Bruce Lipton....

  • Posted By: desertphoenix @ 09/16/2008 5:29:33 PM

    Comment: Deport, huh? The US economy would die without the immigrants that are deemed illegal. Who would perform all the jobs that most Americans are too spoiled to do? Wake up and smell the roses, because the US government will never deport illegal immigrants. There is a price to by for taking advantage of their cheap labor, and there is no way the government will cease to turn a blind eye.

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

    Comment: 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

      Comment: 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: garrettgirl @ 09/16/2008 5:01:35 PM

    Comment: Dr Meffert how *dare* you have the attitude that this disease does not exist. Are you omniscient? Just because you don't have Morgellons (nor do I) does not mean that it does not exist. Get off your high horse and back to reality. There are new diseases and conditions out there that haven't even been discovered yet. You're they type of doctor I'd fire in a heartbeat. You hold yourself in too high esteem, get over yourself you pragmatic jerk

  • Posted By: Norge2 @ 09/16/2008 4:59:18 PM

    Comment: Have these fibers been examined under a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM) and assayed by Trace Element Analysis (TEA)? Why not?

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

    Comment: 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

      Comment: 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

        Comment: 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: Ladymunchkin @ 09/16/2008 4:54:24 PM

    Comment: Another disease that was foreign to this country until the invasion of all the illegal aliens from 3rd world countries. This disease is common in South American countries and has been known about for hundreds of years there. Maybe the CDC needs to send someone south to check it out.

  • Posted By: Dalina10 @ 09/16/2008 4:52:21 PM

    Comment: True that doctors don't take the time with patients in MANY cases and that it is quiet rare to find a doctor that will take the time to actually listen and understand the patient.

    And as to Naidu's comment on Homeopathy, yes. This is rejected by so many, but they don't realize that the natural way is often so much better. Example: My grandma suffered from Arthritis and got to the point where she had to walk around with a cane at her 50's... which is really young for that. The doctor's had said her case wouldn't get better. So, she took Glucosamine for about 2-3 years and she is fine now. She can walk and is a really healthy woman in her 60's. The doctors were proved wrong.
    Some of the best doctors are among the Homeopathic ones. How did people in older times take care of themselves? Through natural procedures, so why can't it be something to accept now?

  • Posted By: Molita @ 09/16/2008 4:52:21 PM

    Comment: Medicine Men do not know all. Check out www.carnicom.com - stop eating processed foods, go as organic as possible yet all chemtrails spray the earth, layer the atmosphere and affect animals & humans alike. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM. If you are not being believed, keep trying, keep speaking up, do not give up - there are some of us who do believe & continue to find ways to expose this Big Brother tactic (no, it's not just our government - it is GLOBAL).

  • Posted By: seckingerj @ 09/16/2008 4:44:50 PM

    Comment: It's a real shame that doctors are like this and can't be more open minded to new diseases appearing. My mother experince the same thing with doctors not listening to her and thinking that she was doing things to herself but with a different disease. The sad thing with her is that she was a certified nurses aid so she worked beside the doctors who told her that she was crazy. It also took her going to a alterative doctor to get a simple blood test done to see what is wrong for someone to believe her.

    Because of her experince I fimly believe that doctors do not know everything like they think they do. If you do not like one doctors opioin, go to another. Keep going until you find one that believes you.

  • Posted By: tstewart25 @ 09/16/2008 4:44:40 PM

    Comment: Many believe this Morgellons disease is caused by Genetically Mutated food crops. This allows them to spray the fields with Round Up but not have any ill effects on humans.

    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/26/why-gmos-will-only-make-the-global-food-crisis-worse.aspx

    This article and the information is worth the time to read and has a lot of merit.

  • Posted By: Tammyfaye @ 09/16/2008 4:44:14 PM

    Comment: Well,I feel it should be worth looking into for these people that suffer . One thing that should be considered old home remedy: powder of sulfer mixed with olive oil based creme making an ointment. My grandmother used to use that on mine when it flared as a child.That was 30 years ago I still use this preparation when it recurs.I hardlygo to the medical professional except for antibiotics - we must remember non tradional medications have been around for a long time, and some are still better than newer more expensive meds,yet at the same time newer meds are great too,but everything has its place what works for some (majority) may not for others and and 150 years ago practioners of folk remedies were burned as witches; personally I believe all avenues should be exhausted.

  • Posted By: lunadoggone @ 09/16/2008 4:43:05 PM

    Comment: I BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE THIS BECAUSE I HAVE SOME THING NO ONE BELIVES I HAVE. EVERY MORNING FOR THE LAST 5 OR SO YEARS I HAVE TO TAKE A BENADRYL JUST TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE DAY. IF I SWEAT AND GO TO THE STORE OR IN A BUILDING WITH AC. I ITCH ALL OVER. IT IS A PAINFUL ITCH IT FEELS AS THOUGH I AM COVERED IN ANTS, AND THEY ARE BITING ME. I WENT TO A DERMATOLIGEST ONCE SHE DIDN'T TOUCH ME OR EVEN LOOK ANYPLACE ON MY BODY. SHE PERSCIBED LOTION AND A SAV AND SOME THING ELSE IT COST WAY TO MUCH AND NOTHING AT ALL SO TO THIS DAY I JUST LIVE WITH AND HOPE THERE IS NO BAD SIDE EFFECTS TO TAKING BENADRYL EVERYDAY. SOME TIMES DR.'S JUST DON'T WANT TO LISTEN THEY ARE TO BUSY OR THEY THINK WE ARE NUTS.

  • Posted By: tstewart25 @ 09/16/2008 4:42:25 PM

    Comment: I read an article and watched a 45 minute video about GM food crops. These crops are genetically engineered to be resistant to Round-up so the fields can be sprayed, but allegedly the foods are safe to eat.

    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/26/why-gmos-will-only-make-the-global-food-crisis-worse.aspx

    I can't believe this wasn't even mentioned in this article. If you read the attached it is pretty interesting.

  • Posted By: Molita @ 09/16/2008 4:37:39 PM

    Comment: 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. Check out carnicom.com for a real eye opener. Dr. Gwen Scott was interviewed & knows all about the morgellons. This is global & connected to CERN? HAARP? Chemtrails are a cause of global dimming. Who is behind all of this? Not sure yet it is global so there is an elite group (New World Order) that wants to control. Big brother is not only watching they are about to take control globally.

  • Posted By: blindeyescantspeak @ 09/16/2008 4:36:11 PM

    Comment: "Any fibers collected will be analyzed by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology" anyone else see a problem with this. I don't trust the gov't. they care about money. this disease is assumably caused by the armed forces and chem trails. why of all things the armed forces, cover up. open your eyes. do research. *** bush

  • Posted By: blindeyescantspeak @ 09/16/2008 4:33:14 PM

    Comment: armed forces getting all the fibers!!!! wonder why ??? Chem trails !!!!!

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

    Comment: 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

      Comment: 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: kfabulist @ 09/16/2008 4:32:54 PM

    Comment: I am sick of doctors who think everything is mental. Doctors are just "practicing" medicine...they don't know everything and any doctor who is concieted enough to make comments like Meffert needs to be censured by his peers. I am glad I don't have to have him treat me.

  • Posted By: The Medicine Man @ 09/16/2008 4:32:54 PM

    Comment: Very very strange simptoms, as though it could be related to "Shingles". Possible a combination of a virus and irritated nerve endings caused by a self-inflicted chemical imbalance.
    My suggestion would be a combination of "Essiac Tea", Dandilion root, more water, two plain aspirin twice daily and a diet of more leafy greens.
    The Medicine Man

  • Posted By: lightbright1 @ 09/16/2008 4:30:51 PM

    Comment: Jeffrey Meffert should go lecture somewhere instead of pseudo treat patients...as an on again off again dermatological patient since childhood and now 54, show a little compassion, please. I have worked for numerous physicians and from both patient perspective and caretaker/nursing pers[ective, I know that a little kindness and lending an ear (not an overdose of sympathy) goes a long way in the healing process. So whajt if this is not a "real" disease caused by bacteria or a genetic flaw...what if the mind plays an important role by "causing" the symptoms for whatever reason. Let's try to alleviate the suffering. Sometimes there just are no answers, but pain is real and a doctor who is worth his salt would CARE for his patient and seek a solution or welcome a cure.

  • Posted By: mbsentry @ 09/16/2008 4:30:03 PM

    Comment: For years I suffered with what I was certain was a parasite infestation. After about 20 years, apparently the lab technology caught up and I was diagnosed with what is considered to be a benign type of flagella critter called blastocistis hominus, that lives in the gut. Now, six months after treatment and starting a high-dose vitamin supplement program, it seems most of my symptoms were from malnutrition (hair loss, joint pain, low energy, dry skin, depression, insomnia, poor circulation, inadequate muscle tone) and every week I am feeling younger and healthier - better than I've felt in a decade, and my mousey grey-brown hair is turning golden brown again. The strangest thing was how my depression lifted just three days into treatment, and hasn't returned. I could tell my newest physician was skeptical when I asked for the parasite tests, but thank goodness she ordered them. I think it saved my life.

  • Posted By: OkcShawty @ 09/16/2008 4:29:57 PM

    Comment: For 6 years my sister complained of a pain her lower right side where her ovary was doctors told her it was a pulled muscle and that nothing was wrong. Finally it took some one with the time and patience and KNOWLEDGE to that her ovary was fused to her bowel and her fallopian tube she is only 27. Now she may not be able to have kids. No one knows all the answers to everything and I wouldn't expect that but when a patient goes to a doctor they are looking for reassurance and an answer to their problem. All we can do us pray

  • Posted By: Naidu @ 09/16/2008 4:29:09 PM

    Comment: As a student of Homeopathy I would suggest that those suffering with this condition should seek the help of a Homeopath. Homeopathy may not give them the reasons why they are impacted by this condition or for that matter the symptoms that are manifesting, but it will certainly bring them relief. A homeopathic remedy is cheap and will not impact the body as modern drugs with it's harsh side-effects.

  • Posted By: CarolKnowsTheTruth @ 09/16/2008 4:23:46 PM

    Comment: Comment: Morgellons Disease May Be Linked to Genetically Modified Food
    Sunday, April 13, 2008 by: Barbara L. Minton

    The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has given care giant Kaiser Permanente over $300,000 to test and interview 150 to 500 patients suffering from Morgellons Disease. The study will be done in northern California where many Morgellons patients live.

    Prior to this news, people had written off the disease as a hoax or the result of hypochondria. But recent evidence suggests that the disease is indeed real, and may be related to genetically modified (GM) food.

    ???Skin Disease May Be Linked to GM Food???, Whitley Strieber???s Unknown Country, Oct. 12, 2007.

    CHECK THIS OUT: http://www.carnicom.com/morgobs6.htm READ Excerpt: If I flat out told you that you had at least 4 different pathogens growing in your body right now which are reassembling in the body to turn into nanomachines which are internally microchipping you, making your whole body one big antenna so you can be easily manipulated and controlled by the ruling elite via high tech mind control technology intended to turn this into a prison planet, would you believe me?
    We all have these pathogens in us right now, even if we don't have any of the outward signs of Morgellons, which is not an actual disease- its actually the result of biological warfare being waged against us right now via chemtrails being sprayed on us from planes. We're breathing these nano particles, they're in our water and in the food chain.

    "They" know what Morgellons is,. "They" caused it!
    http://www.naturalnews.com/023004.html

  • Posted By: AKD95 @ 09/16/2008 4:20:35 PM

    Comment: Before there was a diagnoses call ???Cancer,Mono or Andersen disease, what do you think Doctors said to the patients? They probably told them ???It???s all in your head???. Doctors are not GOD???s of medicine and ???House??? is just a T.V show.

  • Posted By: sparrow2 @ 09/16/2008 4:19:56 PM

    Comment: I suffer from similar symptooms, but not until recently has i caused me to not sleep. My Grandmother suffered terribly from this, she would constantly scratch her fingers until they bled. Perhaps toxins in soap or fluoride, plastics could be a cause.

  • Posted By: ashbash @ 09/16/2008 4:19:28 PM

    Comment: THE WORST PART ABOUT THIS IS THE PEOPLE DEFENDING THIS DOCTOR THAT IS "CERTAIN" THIS CONDITION DOES NOT EXIST. WHY WOULD SOMEONE POSSIBLY WANT TO LIE ABOUT THIS? I WISH THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE CONVINCED THAT THIS IS FAKE WOULD START GETTING THE SYMPTOMS OF THIS DISEASE AND THEN SEE HOW FUN IT IS TO TRY TO GET HELP WHEN NOBODY BELIEVES YOU. THE PROBLEM WITH THE MEDICAL FIELD IN THIS COUNTRY IS THAT ITS ALL ABOUT THE $$$$$. I DARE YOU TO TELL ME THAT THEY DON???T HAVE A CURE FOR CANCER. THEY HAVE CURES BUT THEY AREN???T GOING TO OFFER THEM BECAUSE THE DRUG COMPANIES AND THE DOCTORS ARE GOING TO LOSE MONEY AND THE EXTRAVAGANT LIFESTYLES THEY LIVE. MOST DOCTORS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE PATIENTS OR THEY WOULD RESEARCH INTO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF WAVING IT OFF LIKE THE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY. FOR ALL OF YOU OUT THEIR THAT ARE WILLING TO QUESTION THE INFORMATION THAT IS SPOON-FED TO US AND WHO ARE WILLING TO STAND FOR THE POSSIBILITIES THAT MAYBE WE DON???T HAVE THE ANSWER AND MAYBE THEIR ARE THINGS IN THIS WORLD THAT CANT BE EXPLAINED BUT IT DOESN???T MEAN THEY DO NOT EXIST. POWER TO KNOWLEDGE!!!

    • Posted By: Dalina10 @ 09/16/2008 4:41:46 PM

      Comment: Agreed...

  • Posted By: AKD95 @ 09/16/2008 4:19:11 PM

    Comment: Before there was a diagnoses call ???Cancer,Mono or Andersen disease, what do you think Doctors said to the patients? They probably told them ???It???s all in your head???. Doctors are not GOD???s of medicine and ???House??? is just a T.V show.

  • Posted By: sparrow2 @ 09/16/2008 4:17:34 PM

    Comment: I suffer from similar syptoms, but not until recently has it become so painful that it keeps me from sleeping. I wonder if there are unknown areas that could be explored, soap over exposure, plastics, flouride. My grandmother had someting similar. She would constantly scratch her hands until they bled.

  • Posted By: jjpullano @ 09/16/2008 4:16:09 PM

    Comment: As far as I am concerned most "doctors" want to believe only what they were taught in medical school.
    as a perfect example of medical disregard for a complaint I, personally had been dismissed for a bulged disk in my c5-c6 location, for veriseal failure and for a imbilical herna, for over twenty years, and I am still being refuted for a "S-I Triangle" injury to the lower back and dismissed for a muscle in the back that was not aligned correctly after ahaving a kidney remove . . . but give some ass a degree and he or she knows everything

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

    Comment: 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

      Comment: 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: junkhunter @ 09/16/2008 4:15:34 PM

    Comment: I have both serisis and exuma (not sure of the spellings)but for last year i have been having some kinda combo of the 2.The best thing i found so far was mixing antibiotic ointment with antifungal creme.I havnt went to a skin doctor yet but if their just telling everyone yer nuts why bother.humidity drives it nuts,but when im in the dessert no problem.sound familiar?

  • Posted By: MelissaSytes @ 09/16/2008 4:14:01 PM

    Comment: I would think that a Doctor of Medicine would want to find answers instead of so easily dismissing them. If Meffert was my doctor, I believe I might find another one who actually WANTED to find out what was wrong with me. He is obviously a doctor for all the wrong reasons.

  • Posted By: MelissaSytes @ 09/16/2008 4:13:51 PM

    Comment: I would think that a Doctor of Medicine would want to find answers instead of so easily dismissing them. If Meffert was my doctor, I believe I might find another one who actually WANTED to find out what was wrong with me. He is obviously a doctor for all the wrong reasons.

  • Posted By: educatedmom @ 09/16/2008 4:13:22 PM

    Comment: Maybe these people produce very visible fibrinogen (I think that it's called this), which the body makes when healing wounds.

  • Posted By: educatedmom @ 09/16/2008 4:11:17 PM

    Comment: It seems like these fibers could be the type that the body makes when healing wounds. And, sometimes blood vessels break underneath the skin, as when we bruise. Perhaps these people have a certain amount of ability to produce extra fibrinogen (I think it's called) and so the healing fibers are visible. The article didn't discuss any of this, and I wonder whether anyone is considering it.

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

    Comment: 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

      Comment: 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: eas524 @ 09/16/2008 4:07:22 PM

    Comment: This is a very interesting article. I agree with many that most doctors don't take the time or do their research when it comes to diagnosing patients. Everyone is different we were not made with cookie cutters.
    Also someone commented:
    "Comment: 1950's: The pain in your stomach is an ulcer. Drink lots of milk.
    1970's The pain in your stomach is an ulcer. Take antacids.
    1990's The pain in your stomach is an ulcer caused by infection of H. Pylori, a bacteria. Take this antibiotic. Now the pain is gone."
    My doctor told me of this when I told him of a Dr.Hahn out of Madison WI who believes asthma may be caused by a bacteria. Some have been cured of there asthma by taking an extended period of antibiotics. If you want to check it out here are some sites.

    Where I first learned about Dr Hahn.
    http://www.asthmastory.com/

    Clinical Trial information:
    http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00266851

    Information about Dr. Hahn:
    http://www.dean.org/index.php/info/asthma

  • Posted By: Holistic Healer @ 09/16/2008 4:06:57 PM

    Comment: They can be helped with Bach Flower Remedies, one of which immediately comes to mind is Crab Apple.

  • Posted By: ktsmom @ 09/16/2008 4:06:34 PM

    Comment: The picture of the fibers under the skin is really wierd. Believe it or not, my boss killed a cricket on the shop floor and these long black threadlike things came out of it tangled within each other, writhed around on the floor for a couple of minutes until they died. Looked exactly like the tangled fibers in the picture...I had to show my boss the picture and he agreed......

  • Posted By: sm76 @ 09/16/2008 4:06:03 PM

    Comment: I am absolutely not surprised that doctors are dismissing sick peoples issues, as if they know every single disease that exists and that no new illnesses will be discovered. As a person with several chronic diseases I have given up with the medical community due to their apathy and ignorance. Im certain that there are open-mined and caring doctors that exist, but they are few and far between. Hopefully science can explain this condition, but there are still many conditions that have no explanation and no cure. People have to remain vigilant in getting answers and stop letting doctors control the patients. Doctors work for us and they are not gods!

  • Posted By: Ajustme @ 09/16/2008 4:05:15 PM

    Comment: I can relate to all the frustration... I have been to 10 doctors about a rash that started on my face, made me feel like bugs were crawling. One doctor would send me to another, etc, etc, all of a waste of TIME and MONEY. I am 'sick and tired' of doctors and their mis-diagnoses. If they don't know what something is, they always try to attribute it to stress. What a CROCK!!! I too have been given Xanax and have NO PROBLEM with stress or dealing with things, but yet my doctor seems to be so convinced, someone who doesn't know me personally, and maybe if I am "lucky" might know me for 2 minutes while rushing through an exam and not paying attention to what the patient has to say.... They are too busy trying to ASSUME what the problem is than to find what really is going on, and they they want to send a patient to a "TEACHING HOSPITAL" because "not that they are any better doctors, but they have more time to investigate your situation". Like I said, what a CROCK... I am going to save my money and my time in the future.

    • Posted By: Fedupwithlies @ 09/16/2008 6:47:52 PM

      Comment: To Ajustme,
      I too have had a rash on my face since 1994...I have seen 4 diff docs, none had a clue about where it's coming from and no one seems to take my observation in to account in trying to find an answer...I have not found anyone who has ever had this spec. condition, ditto for the doctors....Am curious about your's as there are some similarities...the itching...would like to discuss with you

  • Posted By: roqnmom @ 09/16/2008 4:04:56 PM

    Comment: It wasn't TOO long ago when doctors thought Fibromyalgia was a pyschological disorder. It's a shame that these people have to suffer simply because physicians are too arogant to admit that they don't know everything there is to know about disease!

    • Posted By: Az Fred @ 09/16/2008 4:19:27 PM

      Comment: fibro is a pyschological disorder

  • Posted By: hirschstag @ 09/16/2008 4:02:10 PM

    Comment: When I was young and believed every thing my parents told me, I was quick to believe in God, As I got older and my parents word became less convincing, so to did the existance of God. Considering the tragedies that have befallen me and thouse surrounding me, I cannot see why people would believe in the existance of a supreme being that allows his creations to destroy each other with extream paid and suffering. Oh, yes, God works in mysterious ways. However, if there is no way for us to learn exactly what the Lord's aims are we can only disassume the existance of such existance. Perhaps, we are exactly what Einstein, Newton, Openheimer, Kirk and Spok all believe; there is a God, but it exists only in the force of nature that Spinoza extolled. Neither malevolent nor benevolent, God controls everything, while there is no control at all. The lack of any spiritual guidance is nothing new. It is acknowledged that bad things happen to good people and vice verse. Why, because people are there and they all have independant brains that do their own thing without being told what to do. God has left us to take a long and well deserved vacation. We needed his or her guidance, but those 40 years in the dessert, wore him out. With sand in our shoes and mush in our brain, we need to leave God to be manipulated by the followers of Rob and Tami-Faye. They need him and he makes them happy alos the producers and prosecutors.

    Those who need God and can accept such existance, should. Those who cannot, must not, Somewhere there is a middle line and if there is someone that can accept that trail, perhaps they can lead all of us down that trail so that the rest of us stop hurting one another in the name of or the lack thereof, God. So mode it be.

    • Posted By: MelissaSytes @ 09/16/2008 4:18:43 PM

      Comment: When did this article even -MENTION- God? And what does that have to do with anything?

  • Posted By: justasiseeit @ 09/16/2008 3:55:25 PM

    Comment: Well, Let me go out on a long, long, lonnggggg limb here and say what I think, that is OK, right.
    It is some form of Allien virus from another planet. They all have a common denominator...............warm climate.
    Proof is.... they have nothing to compare it to....

  • Posted By: ashbash @ 09/16/2008 3:55:18 PM

    Comment: THE WORST PART ABOUT THIS IS THE PEOPLE DEFENDING THIS DOCTOR THAT IS "CERTAIN" THIS CONDITION DOES NOT EXIST. WHY WOULD SOMEONE POSSIBLY WANT TO LIE ABOUT THIS? I WISH THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE CONVINCED THAT THIS IS FAKE WOULD START GETTING THE SYMPTOMS OF THIS DISEASE AND THEN SEE HOW FUN IT IS TO TRY TO GET HELP WHEN NOBODY BELIEVES YOU. THE PROBLEM WITH THE MEDICAL FIELD IN THIS COUNTRY IS THAT IS ALL ABOUT THE $$$$$. I DARE YOU TO TELL ME THAT THEY DONT HAVE A CURE FOR CANCER. THEY HAVE CURES BUT THEY ARENT GOING TO OFFER THEM BECAUSE THE DRUG COMPANIES AND THE DOCTORS ARE GOING TO LOSE MONEY AND THE EXTRAVAGENT LIFESTYLES THEY LIVE. MOST DOCTORS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE PATIENTS OR THEY WOULD RESEARCH INTO SOMTHING INSTEAD OF WAVING IT OFF LIKE THEY ARE CRAZY. FOR ALL OF YOU OUT THEIR THAT ARE WILLING TO QUESTION THE INFORMATION THAT IS SPOONFED TO US AND WHO ARE WILLING TO STAND FOR THE POSSIBILITIES THAT MAYBE WE DONT HAVE THE ANSWER AND MAYBE THE THEIR ARE THINGS IN THIS WORLD THAT CANT BE EXPLAINED BUT IT DOESNT MEAN THEY DO NOT EXIST. POWER TO KNOWLEDGE

  • Posted By: eyerusheyesrsmiling @ 09/16/2008 3:49:39 PM

    Comment: The dermatologist who stated he is "pissed off" by these patients really should find another line of work. While I don't suffer from the disease in the article, I would never visit a doctor again who is so dismissive of a patient's complaints. A pox on his househould!

  • Posted By: jazzin92 @ 09/16/2008 3:48:31 PM

    Comment: I was diagnosed with scabies, then with parasites from the middle east, where I had never been, then several months later I was again..by the same dermotologist diagnosed with cystic acne, with underlying parasetic lesions. However, the cream, and medicine, and acne care, only dried out my face, and left red swollen scars. I would itch constantly, on my arms, face, eyebrows and upper legs. After the itching went away, I felt sharp, shiney specs all over those areas, and my eye brows felt as if I had something crawling all over me. I am stable minded, a mother of two, and a military spouse. Stress and anxiety did not bring this on. I was sitting outside, and my legs started to itch, and burn and I felt as if I were being stung. Finally after throughly scrubbing my legs in alcohal, and buying lice meds, I started to feel relief, until I got into the shower, then I could feel something jumping all over me, and crawling from my face downwards. It was an awful feeling. I realized a pattern, I was infected by parasites of some origin, nothing any military physician or derotologis had seen before. After the initial infection, for half a year straight, I would fight, the itches with cortisone cream and rub myself with alcohal, and or peroxide every day three or four time a day, whenever the itching and or redness would start. After leaving Alabama, and moving, only then did the relief begin to start. I would notice small shiny and minute things on my skin that had made its way from underneath my skin and tunneled out through another part of my limbs. The parasites under a microscope looked exactly like the ones on this page, and are still unamed. Apparently they feed off skin, blood, and tisue leaving behind scars, and permanent skin damage, even killing off skin under nails, such as toe nails, etc..I have a toenail that will not grow due to breaking off, after some of these hanious creatures tunneled under neath the nail. I still have scars on my face and my eyebrows itch at times after long exposure to tanning beds or sweating from working out. I still do not have a name, but the relief after a year is enough for now. I would love to take the results from the CDC with me to a dermitologist, after all it is not in my head..I mean I could feel my skin crawling, I washed sheets, drycleaned clothes,. changed detergent, steamed rugs and couches, washed cats..kept my cats inside, and to no avail..I would still itch, my youngest suffered a small amount, but I kept my regine on her and ahead of the tunneling, my spouse and other daughter never felt a thing., set aside from random fits of itching of the scalp and eyebrows, and it was not lice..Chigger cream helped alot as well as chamomile ointment, with prescriptoin benedryl taking daily. This articel answered alot of my questions, I only hope I help others..we are not alone in this parasite attack..be well, J

    • Posted By: breyerluvr1 @ 09/16/2008 4:19:28 PM

      Comment: Research ivermectin on the computer. It's been used for the tx of scabies.

  • Posted By: kmart1960 @ 09/16/2008 3:47:38 PM

    Comment: I wish I could say I am surprised by Dr. Meffert's arrogance, but sadly, I am not. No matter what we may like to believe, medicine is not an exact science. Not all diseases and/or illnesses can be easily diagnosed. Some doctors, rather than admit that they simply do not know what is wrong with a person, will tell them that their illness is all in their head. It might serve all doctors well if they got very sick and very scared for a while so they would have better empathy for their patients.

  • Posted By: springinmeadow @ 09/16/2008 3:42:33 PM

    Comment: Hi this article fails to mention other physical symptoms this disease entails. one of the these is night blindnes,/ My brother has suffered from this disease for two years now and has lost sight in one eye. he is literally blind. Also If this condition was caused by excessive picking itching etc. I don't think the lesions would appear on males; genitalia, which is the case with my brother, I My brother is ill, I am concerned that when Drs. are confronted with something as bizarre and confusing as this condition they just do not want to deal with it because it is TOO complicated and possibly they hate to say i don't understand this. Fortunately there are maverick physicians out there who will see these suffering people (who can not even sleep at night due to the extreme discomfortt.) These are our hero doctors.

  • Posted By: jcollins1961 @ 09/16/2008 3:41:19 PM

    Comment: I have a sister who is 48 years old and she has had Morgellons for six years. When this first started hapening to her the entire family not to mention the many doctors she went to see said she was delusional and it was all in her head. Some doctors would not even talk to her. I have seen with my own eyes the nonhealing skin lesions on her. She has told me of the crawling or itching sensations she would have and yes I have seen the fibers and black granules emerging from her skin. She also has neurological impairments such as short-term memory loss and at time she is delusional. It just outrages me that some very educated doctors can just DISMISS this becaue they don't understand it. Why did they become a doctor if they are not willing to explore the unknown. This is real and thousands of people have it. All diseases start somewhere and Morgellons is no different. My sister saw one doctor that had a demeanor of a cold heart human. I say to all these EAT UP STUPID doctors that are affraid of exploring this to GET OUT of the medical field because it's doctors like them that keeps people from going.

  • Posted By: lonwolf @ 09/16/2008 3:40:34 PM

    Comment: Looks a bit like fungal hyphae or an actinobacter to me. If I had some of those fibers, I would try growing them on a plate with high silicon content such as oatmeal or cornmeal. If it can be isolated, a little PCR might shed a little light.

  • Posted By: have-a-heart @ 09/16/2008 3:36:30 PM

    Comment: Another thousand people, whose illnesses were 'all in their heads' just died because they went to lazy doctors.

  • Posted By: sickofbaddocs @ 09/16/2008 3:35:51 PM

    Comment: Doctors today are too lazy to research, and too arrogant to take patient complaints seriously. Thirty years ago, my mom had multiple health issues. She went to dozens of docs, all who told her it "was all in her head." Finally, she went to a doctor who actually admitted he had no idea what she had, but promised to find out. He went to his medical books. He consulted other medical experts. He did blood tests on my mom. Finally, they found out what was wrong: she had lupus. If it's not a disease that doctors can easily point to and say, "Oh, it's this" they just want to give you a pill for depression (probably because it's easier for them to get insurance reimbursement for that than for to diagnose and treat a disease that isn't popular) then they just want to quickly move on and "process" the next patient so they can have a higher patient ratio.

    I'm sick of traditional medicine docs. They only care about how much money they can make, and not patinets' welfare. went to dozens of doctors

  • Posted By: boo_bear_74 @ 09/16/2008 3:34:19 PM

    Comment: There are so many diseases out there. I've been to dermatologists before because I broke out in skin rashes being underneath fluorescent lighting. I also have fibromyalgia. I'm only 21 years old. I've been diagnosed since I was 16. I had symptoms since I was 14, I was called nuts for 2 years. Well dermatologists don't understand why I break out in rashes underneath fluorescent lighting. They find it a mystery, and weird. My rheumatologist has been testing me for years for lupus. It still hasn't come back positive yet. Doctors don't know everything. There are many new conditions coming out every year, who no one has a cause for. It's scary sometimes when you think you may have a disease no one has ever heard of, because your symtpoms don't always fit with just one disease. Doctors really need to not always think something resonates from being psychological if they can't figure out what's going on with someone physically. I for one am very glad the CDC is delving into the Morgellon's disease to find out why people are having this. It's a scary thing. It is hard when doctors don't take you seriously. I really have empathy for these people who live with fibers coming out of their skin every single day, and who hear that they are having psychological symptoms. I hope all of them find out what is causing this, and that they get some answers.

  • Posted By: sickofbaddocs @ 09/16/2008 3:33:41 PM

    Comment: Doctors are too lazy to do research, and too arrogant to take patient's concerns seriously. Several years ago my mom was very ill, went from doctor to doctor, all who told her "it was all in her head." Finally one doc admitted he had no idea what she had, but promised her he would find out. He went to his medical books. He consulted other medical experts. He made phone calls to experts in other parts of the country. He took blood tests. Finally, a diagnosis: lupus. If symptoms don't match those of a list of diseases or conditions on their pre-made "grocery list" of acceptable diseases, then docs blow you off. Probably because if they give you a pill for depression, they can more easily be reimbursed from insurance for that than they could be for treating a lesser-known, "unpopular" disease. I trust NO traditional medicine docs. They're all just in it for the money.

  • Posted By: countryliving @ 09/16/2008 3:33:00 PM

    Comment: Very interesting article. I have not heard of this condition before. I am glad that the CDC is looking into this and hopefully their findings will benefit people who have this and also the medical profession to help them understand this.

  • Posted By: bluefish @ 09/16/2008 3:29:42 PM

    Comment: It isn't the doctors that think they are god, its the patients that confir that title. They want doctors to know everything, and when they don't somehow the doc. has failed. Every profession have people with a range of expertise. Take some personnal responsability, determine if you think the doc. is being resonable if not move one. People spend more time and effort searching for a new car and test driving than they do finding a suitable doctor. If a patient does due diligence they will get what they are paying for. By the way I am not a doctor just a discriminating consumer of medicine.

  • Posted By: sickofbaddocs @ 09/16/2008 3:29:28 PM

    Comment: Doctors today are too lazy to research, and too arrogant to take patient complaints seriously. Thirty years ago, my mom had multiple health issues. She went to dozens of docs, all who told her it "was all in her head." Finally, she went to a doctor who actually admitted he had no idea what she had, but promised to find out. He went to his medical books. He consulted other medical experts. He did blood tests on my mom. Finally, they found out what was wrong: she had lupus. If it's not a disease that doctors can easily point to and say, "Oh, it's this" they just want to give you a pill for depression (probably because it's easier for them to get insurance reimbursement for that than for to diagnose and treat a disease that isn't popular) then they just want to quickly move on and "process" the next patient so they can have a higher patient ratio.

    I'm sick of traditional medicine docs. They only care about how much money they can make, and not patinets' welfare. went to dozens of doctors

  • Posted By: bluefish @ 09/16/2008 3:29:21 PM

    Comment: It isn't the doctors that think they are god, its the patients that confir that title. They want doctors to know everything, and when they don't somehow the doc. has failed. Every profession have people with a range of expertise. Take some personnal responsability, determine if you think the doc. is being resonable if not move one. People spend more time and effort searching for a new car and test driving than they do finding a suitable doctor. If a patient does due diligence they will get what they are paying for. By the way I am not a doctor just a discriminating consumer of medicine.

  • Posted By: Nvrtoolate @ 09/16/2008 3:28:05 PM

    Comment: Doctors will do or say anything to avoid the real issue. They are "PRACTICING" medicine! Did that escape their brain when they recieved their first paycheck? Do they remember the Hypocratic oath? " First do no harm" They pin any unexplained disorder, symptom, unexpained reaction or anything else they don't understand on a mental illness or disorder. Hello, they have the mental problem. They just won't admitt that they don't know or don't understand or maybe they just don't give a hoot! It's always easier to blame it on the patient or someone else instead of their own inability or lack of knowledge and information. Their are only few and far between that are humble enough to admitt that they just don't know and will encourage a person to look for help in other areas. The main objective is taking as much money as they can sifer out of people and then send them away as some sort of medical deviant or "whack job psyco". Let's applaud those who are willing to give time and resourses to misunderstood problems I mean where would we be if no money ever went to any research? I'm sure every person out there has known someone who has benefitted by this process.

  • Posted By: sulano @ 09/16/2008 3:25:27 PM

    Comment: OMG! this is terrifying. This combined with all these alien sighting reports. What is this world coming to?

  • Posted By: momoftoad @ 09/16/2008 3:24:07 PM

    Comment: 1950's: The pain in your stomach is an ulcer. Drink lots of milk.
    1970's The pain in your stomach is an ulcer. Take antacids.
    1990's The pain in your stomach is an ulcer caused by infection of H. Pylori, a bacteria. Take this antibiotic. Now the pain is gone.

    It's all in your head, and "crackpot science" until it is true! This happens over and over in medicine. We don't yet know it all, and I am glad this is finally being credibly investigated.

  • Posted By: Tabby8 @ 09/16/2008 3:24:04 PM

    Comment: Hi,
    This skin problem is a horrible thing to go through. I have lived with it for three years now. It has spread all over me and also to my scalp. I feel there is no hope with the doctors I have seem . My family doctor says I am doing it to myself and it won't go away until I decide to stop. This is not true. The open lesions take months to heal and then another appears. I now treat myself and am better but it is still there.
    To the doctors who don't believe, we are at your mercy, and I only hope you never have to go through this. When the day comes that this skin desease is discovered to be true, and it will be in time, I hope you look back at how we who have it have suffered.
    If I can help anyone with this desease I would be glad to tell you what I have found to help. I no longer spend lots of money for things that don't work. It has become a money making business which is ashame. I always say, "What goes around comes around."

  • Posted By: beenthere123 @ 09/16/2008 3:22:03 PM

    Comment: I've worked in two hospitals and most Drs think they are God and know everything. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. For ten painful years I indured a very painful gynecological problem, Dr after Dr told me it was all in my head. Finally found one that knew right away what it was . Vestibulitis. After a year of different treatments, surgery was my last option. Been pain free 15 years now. Any by the way I also have Fibromyalgia. This was before they did any clinical studies. There again, it was all in my head. So, unless you have absolute fact that this isn't happening, then I suggest you keep quite.

  • Posted By: CarolKnowsTheTruth @ 09/16/2008 3:21:59 PM

    Comment: Morgellons Disease May Be Linked to Genetically Modified Food
    Sunday, April 13, 2008 by: Barbara L. Minton

    The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has given care giant Kaiser Permanente over $300,000 to test and interview 150 to 500 patients suffering from Morgellons Disease. The study will be done in northern California where many Morgellons patients live.

    Prior to this news, people had written off the disease as a hoax or the result of hypochondria. But recent evidence suggests that the disease is indeed real, and may be related to genetically modified (GM) food.

    ???Skin Disease May Be Linked to GM Food???, Whitley Strieber???s Unknown Country, Oct. 12, 2007.

    CHECK THIS OUT: http://www.carnicom.com/morgobs6.htm READ Excerpt: If I flat out told you that you had at least 4 different pathogens growing in your body right now which are reassembling in the body to turn into nanomachines which are internally microchipping you, making your whole body one big antenna so you can be easily manipulated and controlled by the ruling elite via high tech mind control technology intended to turn this into a prison planet, would you believe me?
    We all have these pathogens in us right now, even if we don't have any of the outward signs of Morgellons, which is not an actual disease- its actually the result of biological warfare being waged against us right now via chemtrails being sprayed on us from planes. We're breathing these nano particles, they're in our water and in the food chain.

    "They" know what Morgellons is,. "They" caused it!
    http://www.naturalnews.com/023004.html

  • Posted By: angryn_ne @ 09/16/2008 3:21:56 PM

    Comment: this seems to be an ongoing problem with our medical field.........the doctors are not there to help and heal as they took an oath to do !!! yet they want us to pay their out landish prices to get their EXPERTISE, or should I say their hositility behind our backs. They are constantly telling us how we feel, what we feel and what we don't and what is going on with our own bodies..........I'm sorry but I thought they were to help HEAL us.

  • Posted By: nl6871 @ 09/16/2008 3:20:39 PM

    Comment: This Meffert guy is the reason why the medical community SUCKS today. How many people has he psychologically damaged with his stand off and incompassionate demeanor. I cant believe they let this guy still practice today. The best doctors in the world take EVERYTHING into account in forming a diagnosis. How many people will now refuse to go to a doctor (and it may cost them their life) because this guy refuses to believe his patients. What happened to the oath of doing no harm. Doesn't he realize that he IS doing harm by not believing his patients. 8 years of education and this guy still is a moron!!!

  • Posted By: gesquibel @ 09/16/2008 3:19:12 PM

    Comment: It will not surprise me if this comes out to be a true "disease" if in fact that it actually is a disease. The human body surprises us every day with the amazing feats it performs and how it regenerates itself. Who knows it could be the next "mutation" humans are experiencing in our evolutionary process.

  • Posted By: kknudson @ 09/16/2008 3:17:53 PM

    Comment: I think Doctors are being too quick to dismiss patients these days. We haven't discovered all forms of life on this planet so there is no way we have found all sorts of disease yet. I do realize that there are many people who are hypochondriacts and others who are delusional, but that is no reason to treat everyone as though they are. I also realize that there is not always an easy way to describe what is going on with our bodies. It can be hard to find the proper descriptive words, so occasionally one may sound paranoid or crazy when explaining their ailments. Doctors are paid to heal and maintain health, not rush people out of the door and collect money for nothing.

  • Posted By: have-a-heart @ 09/16/2008 3:17:29 PM

    Comment: Thousands of people die everyday from illnesses that their doctors said were all in their head.

  • Posted By: angryn_ne @ 09/16/2008 3:15:59 PM

    Comment: this seems to be an ongoing problem with our medical field.........the doctors are not there to help and heal as they took an oath to do !!! yet they want us to pay their out landish prices to get their EXPERTISE, or should I say their hositility behind our backs. They are constantly telling us how we feel, what we feel and what we don't and what is going on with our own bodies..........I'm sorry but I thought they were to help HEAL us.

  • Posted By: chrisinus @ 09/16/2008 3:15:30 PM

    Comment: It's interesting - 20 yrs ago my son complained of a sensation on his back like being stung repeatedly, or sharp needles being inserted. After a few weeks he complained of a feeling like there were tiny bugs crawling around in that spot, causing him to itch and feel uncomfortable. It's been 20years and he still has a blackened mark about the size of 2 quarters where this occurred. 4 years ago I experienced the same thing, same sensations - and now have the same discoloration on my back.have si

  • Posted By: andbes @ 09/16/2008 3:14:31 PM

    Comment: Folks that's why they are called "Practicing Physicians". They are not Gods. If your doctor isn't willing to take you seriously and will disregard you like this "Dr." Meffert - move on until you you are given the care and concern that is your right.

  • Posted By: CarolKnowsTheTruth @ 09/16/2008 3:14:31 PM

    Comment: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has given care giant Kaiser Permanente over $300,000 to test and interview 150 to 500 patients suffering from Morgellons Disease. The study will be done in northern California where many Morgellons patients live.

    Prior to this news, people had written off the disease as a hoax or the result of hypochondria. But recent evidence suggests that the disease is indeed real, and may be related to genetically modified (GM) food.

    Skin Disease May Be Linked to GM Food???, Whitley Strieber???s Unknown Country, Oct. 12, 2007

    http://www.naturalnews.com/023004.html

  • Posted By: Anonnymoose @ 09/16/2008 3:12:08 PM

    Comment: I work in the corporate headquarters of a big pest control company. Every month we get a phone call from a different middle-aged woman complaining about invisible bugs. We ask them to save samples. When they say that they have found the fibers of the bugs (or the egg sacs or the excrement), we send out a technician to retrieve the sample. Samples are reviewed by our three scientists (two entomologists and a biologist). The results have sometimes been onion skins, commercial threads, and grains and spices. It is almost always the same story. The women are all between the ages of 35 and 52. Sometimes they diagnose the problem on their children, and then it get particularly scary. We've had kids get on the telephone, harangued by their mother in the background, "Tell him about the bugs! Tell him about the bugs!" and then the kid goes into some sad recitation of lunacy. In every single case, the diagnosis has been the same: delusional parasitosis. When the name Morgellons Disease came about, and there was a website to whom we could direct these people, we were ecstatic, because finally we could unburden ourselves of these obsessive women who would call repeatedly and show up unannounced at our offices. Now we just send people straight to the site where they are, doubtless, given credence and sympathy and understanding (which might just be the cure in itself.).