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  • Posted By: rmtimko @ 05/26/2008 9:41:50 AM

    My mother had this disease but no one, especially the doctors, would believe her. I took her to two dermotologist who did nothing. This finally cleared up but we purchased so many remedies you would not believe. To the person that suffers from this ailment, it is very real and painful to them.

  • Posted By: bahbi @ 05/25/2008 7:30:22 PM

    Good grief! God forbid I ever come across an *** of a doctor as this Texan dermatologist. If arrogance were a treatable desease, Jeffrey Meffert should be the first in line to take the drug trials. If you ever need a doctor one day, "Dr" (and I use the term VERY loosely), I wish you a better doctor than you are to the people who come to you for help.

  • Posted By: Concernfortheworld @ 04/13/2008 6:29:45 PM

    This is as real as the sun, and far more devasting than a heart attack. It is manmade. Check Staningerrepprt.com for the MIT analysis of the fibers found in Morgellons patients. They are produced in the body, do not match anything in the FBI fiber data base, and are polyethelyne. Now, if this doesn't sound a wake up call for humanity to rein in the Bilderbergers, then get ready for Armageddon.

  • Posted By: Linnysue @ 02/07/2008 6:41:46 PM

    If you think you are suffering from Morgellons, you can find help at http://morgellons-sanctum.org/forum/index.php
    Morgellons Sanctum is an online community providing an atmosphere of hope and healing.

    • Posted By: Hope42 @ 02/07/2008 8:30:57 PM

      Firstly, I would like to thank Jenny Hontz for a well balanced article about Morgellon's Disease sufferers. Secondly, I really hope for the sake of Mr. Meffert's patient's that he does indeed acquire some compassion and tolerance.
      He not only sounds like an embarassment to himself but the entire dermatological community. Wow.

      Hope

      • Posted By: Hope42 @ 02/07/2008 9:32:12 PM

        What is perplexing to me is the fact that a disease which has affected so many has been completely and undeniably ignored by our own government and CDC since 2002.
        Why weren't me or my family made aware of its existance? If the CDC had at lease made it's presence known to the medical community way back in 2002 an untold number of patients may not have been subjected to potentially hazardous over the counter and prescription insecticides as treatment which were largely ineffective and dangerous.
        There are two years of my life which was needlessly spent in fear of the unknown which I will never get back. And now the consequences of an apathetic and arrogant medical community who laid waste to thousands of families simply by NOT LISTENING...to their quiet pleas for compassion and respect are only now starting to slowly be exposed.

        Perplexed

        • Posted By: Daisytx4all @ 02/08/2008 3:06:46 PM

          Samples were sent to the CDC back in the early '90's!!! Now if the CDC had taken this serious and done a research THEN, wouldn't you feel better in knowing that by now in 2007 that they would have a cure or know how to treat it? If the CDC had done their job back then, all the patients NOW would have doctors treating them instead of "treating them like dirt or DOP" AS for Dr. Meffert's instead of being a jerk he should have been a "front runner" to get the CDC to look into this - my question is "why did you NOT step up Dr. Mefferts and push for a research into morgellons? You like being interviewed it seems but as a Doctor,
          why did you not push for research, why did you not start you own? I feel all Doctors that turned a morgellons patient away or stuck DOP on them, never should be interview for nothing except at a medical review board for them not doing their job.

          • Posted By: Freedom Crow @ 04/01/2008 10:41:39 AM

            The nay sayers aren't even worth the typing to answer them. You won't convince knot heads. We know it's real, we always have. I think we are more sane than ever, we've had to be to keep our heads above water. In spite of the medical community. I kept telling my Doc I didn't appreciate being asked every time I visited if I were suicidal. Couldn't get him to knock it off. I'm fighting for life I told him. I don't see any doc's now.

        • Posted By: Daisytx4all @ 02/08/2008 3:07:41 PM

          Samples were sent to the CDC back in the early '90's!!! Now if the CDC had taken this serious and done a research THEN, wouldn't you feel better in knowing that by now in 2007 that they would have a cure or know how to treat it? If the CDC had done their job back then, all the patients NOW would have doctors treating them instead of "treating them like dirt or DOP" AS for Dr. Meffert's instead of being a jerk he should have been a "front runner" to get the CDC to look into this - my question is "why did you NOT step up Dr. Mefferts and push for a research into morgellons? You like being interviewed it seems but as a Doctor,
          why did you not push for research, why did you not start you own? I feel all Doctors that turned a morgellons patient away or stuck DOP on them, never should be interview for nothing except at a medical review board for them not doing their job.

  • Posted By: Alvo @ 03/03/2008 7:19:51 AM

    http://secret-of-beauty.notlong.com

  • Posted By: Alvo @ 03/03/2008 7:18:14 AM

    But many doctors have already formed their own opinions about Morgellons. http://tubeurl.com/beauty

  • Posted By: Kinzie @ 03/02/2008 6:08:27 PM

    Morgellons is an infection of the CNS which causes myriad and varied symptoms. It is contagious and it is spreading. It has been reported in every state in the U.S. Only fools will continue to deny this reality. The time for this debate is over. Now we must find a cure.

  • Posted By: Greg Vigil @ 02/24/2008 9:19:17 AM

    Dedicated to Jeffrey Meffert,
    http://morgellonsusa.com/JeffMeffert.html

    In the finality of it all, and in the end of the day, "many thanks be given to Dr.
    Jeffrey Meffert" for revealing and displaying the fact that "many amatuers"
    who have never received any degrees in medical/science, or have ever
    received any clinical training, can become a much better Dermatologist,
    and can become better Doctors than Dr. Jeffrey Meffert himself, as Dr.
    Meffert has displayed a total character of clumsiness, and sloppy and
    shoddy work, as he speaks of the topic of Morgellons Disease, or examines
    his own patients in order to make proper diagnosis???s for 27 years, and in
    his own investigative work of examining fiber samples under microscope,
    "as he makes claims" of doing every single day.

  • Posted By: bluedolphin27188 @ 02/20/2008 10:30:32 PM

    I do believe we will soon learn more about Morgellons as well as how to treat it. And eventually, all the medical personnel and those who call themselves "doctors" will reap their own karma - each in his/her own way. There is too much momentum now to suppress the truth. While the CDC discovers the whole truth for us all, we need to continue asking WHY doctors are allowed to inject their own "opinions", "guesses", etc. when they DO NOT, in fact, KNOW WHAT THIS IS. Since when do you just "label" a mysterious condition as "DELUSIONAL"- a MENTAL/PHYSICAL" dis-ease, when they have NEVER tested us for ANYTHING! Since WHEN, are they allowed to give this psychological diagnosis (that is put into a database for future medical personnel to READ/USE) WITHOUT TESTING FOR THIS CONDITION? IT is OUTRAGEOUS and UNLAWFUL how we have been treated by MOST medical personnel. Shame on all of them. I get pissed every time I think or talk about my experiences or those of Morgellons patients.
    BUT...........THE TIDE HAS TURNED....and it's only a matter of time before these doctors are proven to be the lazy clowns they are impersonating medical professionals.

  • Posted By: acount1010 @ 02/13/2008 12:22:43 AM

    Doctors are nothing but puppets of the system. Unless you are a text book or a professor, your opinions, according to them, are wrong, because they went to school and you didn't. Ego is what hurts the medical and scientific fields, it always has and always will. Sure, they may believe in themselves that they are saviors, and they probably are, but its the training that they receive which disables their ability to listen. A good doctors is a doctor that cares, believes and listens to their patients, qualities that are all too rare. A doctor unable to provide answers to Morgellons will rather falsely diagnose it with a documented ailment than rather face the reality that they don't know everything.

  • Posted By: acount1010 @ 02/13/2008 12:22:32 AM

    Doctors are nothing but puppets of the system. Unless you are a text book or a professor, your opinions, according to them, are wrong, because they went to school and you didn't. Ego is what hurts the medical and scientific fields, it always has and always will. Sure, they may believe in themselves that they are saviors, and they probably are, but its the training that they receive which disables their ability to listen. A good doctors is a doctor that cares, believes and listens to their patients, qualities that are all too rare. A doctor unable to provide answers to Morgellons will rather falsely diagnose it with a documented ailment than rather face the reality that they don't know everything.

  • Posted By: Janet Fedeles @ 02/08/2008 1:48:45 AM

    You may have MD credentials after your name, Mefferti, but it is obvious that you have no compassion. It is because of doctors like you that I never again want to return to a job in the medical field. I have been a nurse for 28 years and worked for one of Atlanta's leading Cardiologists. I was well-respected. I say "was" because I am not able to work at present because of the debilitating effects of Morgellons. Patients with delusional parasitosis are NOT sane in other areas of their lives. I have taken care of a couple of these patients, in the past. They also have scabbed sores all over their bodies except on their backs. Because they cannot reach their backs. Lesions seen with Morgellons commonly occur on the back, as well as other areas. You may need to purchase a new microscope since you said, in a previous article, that you have examined skin scrapings and have never seen fibers. The doctor who is treating me for Morgellons has done biopsies on several different patients. She has clearly seen fibers in biopsies taken from areas where no lesions are present. I believe you, and other doctors who think like you, should visit a Morgellons sufferer's home. I am convinced that you wlll see how wrong you have been. And it will not take very long. Lastly, there is no reason or excuse for the inhumane treatment most of us have received from doctors like you. Morgellons causes horrendous suffering. I am sane. I do not drink alcohol or take drugs of any kind. I am 100% certain that my suffering is related to a real condition.

    • Posted By: Margellons @ 02/08/2008 2:05:37 PM

      Actually, Meffert said:
      "I always magnify the fibers. I examine them under the microscope and using an instrument called a dermlite which cross-polarizes and magnifies. They are clothing fibers stuck in scabs or or bits of the the patients own collagen. You forget, I do scrapings on people all day for fungus, scabies, herpes,etc. I see fibers all day. I also do ultraviolet exams on patents all day for fungus and a condition called erythrasma. I see autoflourescing fibers all day on my patients clothing"

      • Posted By: Janet Fedeles @ 02/10/2008 1:46:36 AM

        Then you need to have your eyes examined. What can I say? My doctor had done BIOPSIES and seen the fibers. You know what? I am reading all these horrific stories and I have come to the conclusion that there are a lot of people who we go to for help that are obviously getting paid off by some big organization. I hope you get Morgellons, Mefferti and I hope you suffer big time with it.

        • Posted By: aston111 @ 02/11/2008 2:10:09 PM

          he won't get it,because the company that is paying him to try to convince everyone that we are delusional has an antidote for him as well as for themselves in case this stuff ever did get out like it has. it's just a matter of time before the truth will come out though. he may escape this,but GOD will give him something that there is no cure for that he will suffer with just like we have. what goes around comes around.

      • Posted By: smoothdeb @ 02/09/2008 10:13:20 PM

        Some of us don't have any skin eruptions at all. The fibers are all internal. My respiratory tree is lined with fibers, and other Morgellon debri. What do you have to verbally say to destroy that? I am one of the lucky ones. I think. The fibers in my nasal secretions are exactly the same as other victims. I have talked with other sufferers like this, as well. Don;t categorize us.
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  • Posted By: itchingtoknow @ 02/10/2008 5:23:23 PM

    Due to character contraints, my lengthy comment to Dr. mefferti was submitted in 5 different posts and should be read starting from the bottom post to the top.

  • Posted By: itchingtoknow @ 02/10/2008 5:11:40 PM

    I wonder why you are choosing to publicly speak about Morgellons, when you are not willing to look at all the factors involved in the disease. I wonder why you dismiss these as clothing fibers, even though there have been forensic tests and other doctors discovering otherwise. Fibers that while may look like clothing fibers to the naked eye, are quite different when studied microscopically???so if you really wanted to make an accurate diagnosis, I wonder why this is a task you are unwilling to perform? I understand that regular textile fibers come from everywhere, but then I wonder why we as a family, did not have this accumulation of oddities and symptoms a few years ago? I wonder why you make the blanket diagnosis of prurigo nodularis, a condition not considered to be contagious, yet there are documentations of entire families having this. I can???t believe a Doctor who studies skin conditions all day long can possibly say: ???They are clothing fibers stuck in scabs or or bits of the the patients own collagen???, when as a novice microbiology student, even I can see the unusual similarities and that fungus type filaments are involved ???as I stated above, sometimes these fibers are intertwined in shapes that look like cocoons. So I wonder why you can???t quite see the unusual fibers and fungus coming forth from patients, while other doctors and researchers can ? I wonder why Randy Wymore and other such researchers would take much of their free time to study ???clothing fibers stuck in scabs or or bits of the the patients own collagen???? With this observation of your inability to see what others are seeing, I come up with no plausible explanations to these unanswered questions or about your intentions. So that makes me wonder even more??? who is paying your salary? Quite honestly, your unprofessional assessment and anger from recent patient???s responses makes me also wonder about your mental health status. So you think YOU are angry from Morgellons patient responses? Try living with this or any other chronic illness and then having physicians such as you, dismiss your symptoms as nonsense. And finally, after thinking further about your perception of the current findings, I really wonder??? who is delusional here?

  • Posted By: itchingtoknow @ 02/10/2008 5:11:21 PM

    So please give me your professional [?] advice as to what antidepressant you think I should take to resolve this mental illness that produces lesions, spontaneous cuts, unusual fibers, strange debris and bugs on my bed, body and clothing? This is just ludicrous. The other day, my daughter had at least 10-15 pieces of black debris on her pillow that could be clearly seen to the naked eye. But they all looked the same microscopically???like a tightly wrapped cocoon with the same shiny characteristic fiber woven through, some blue and some pink???Microscope or not, this black debris shows up pretty well on yellow pillow cases and is pretty hard not to notice. These fibers and other skin deposits are the least of my concern, but are markers that something is wrong here. These are the identifiable part of this disease that cannot in my opinion be attributed to a delusion. But as you know, there are also symptoms such as itching, lesions, extreme changes in body temperature, unusual bowel / parasitic symptoms and involuntary internal muscle spasms, a crawling sensation, joint pain and the list goes on and on. These symptoms are what doctors could diagnose as a mental disorder since they aren???t able to be tested scientifically. But Doctors like you who make such an assumption are not looking at the whole picture here. By you turning a blind eye to this infection makes me wonder many things right now:

  • Posted By: itchingtoknow @ 02/10/2008 5:10:40 PM

    I don???t know why I choose to waste my energy on such negative banter, but I believe it is the principle involved here and also a statement to be made against Doctors that share your attitude. I challenge you to come to my house and observe for just 3 days???..just observe only one of the symptoms and that is of what I find after wiping off my feet at the end of the day. I have worn no socks and only crock rubber shoes that I might add, have to rinse out daily. I have no rugs down on the floors and have covered the furniture, yet I still wipe blue and white fibers off of my toes and the souls of my feet. Ok, so why do I wipe my feet? I wipe my feet because I feel something crawling there and that sensation causes itching. And come to find out, there IS something crawling there. These aren???t fibers as we know them from clothing. We call them this because they are a resemblance; however if one is observant and were willing to look further microscopically, there are fundamental differences: One, as you so often have heard but have chosen to disbelieve without further question, the fibers are most consistently red, blue and clear and often glow in a particular area; the fibers that I most often see have a type of fungus wrapped within its mass and there is frequently a characteristic black dot and gel substance surrounding it as well. I suppose you will now conclude from your highly educated background, that this gel is probably from the clothing manufacturers gluing the clothing together. Frankly, I equate that ridiculous statement that I just made with all your other judgments of morgellon???s patients you have recently made public.

  • Posted By: itchingtoknow @ 02/10/2008 5:09:01 PM

    ???I am surprised that a man of your intelligence and medical knowledge would make such public assumptions without studying this and looking at all possibilities for answers to the Morgellons mystery. After all, isn???t that what constitutes a good medical doctor and researcher? I can see that you have used scientific methods when addressing lupus, HIV and other dermatological problems; however you are jumping to big conclusions about Morgellons without further study, which in my opinion, as well as others, seems very unscientific...and well, just down right ignorant. You made a statement that was very revealing---your answer to what you believed Morgellons was, you stated that ???based on your GUESS of 27 years of patient care and 15 as a d ermatologist from hundreds (thousands?) of wounds of various types I've taken care of over the years?????? Is this how you diagnose patients? By guessing? Being as close minded as you appeared in these past debates and interviews, I would be hesitant to send my daughter to the University of Texas if you are representative of who they hire.

  • Posted By: Janet Fedeles @ 02/10/2008 6:05:27 AM

    Thank you for a very good point, Mr. Vigil. My reply to Mefferti was going to be "good projection." You need to re-read your comments in ALL of the interviews you have done, Mefferti. You are one, extremely arrogant and egotistical person and you have no business saying anything about Morgellons because you are clueless. I have it and I am telling you I am 100% certain it is a real condition. Go research something else so you quit giving out false information. Who is paying you off?

  • Posted By: Greg Vigil @ 02/10/2008 5:07:47 AM

    Hi Jeffrey Meffert.
    http://morgellonsusa.com/morgellonsusa.html
    Please take a look at my "Microscope Photos and Videos."
    As you say, you aren't patient enough to look at this, as you teach your colleagues to make a preconceived diagnosis. You are very ignorant and arrogant man in your dealing with people???s health.

  • Posted By: Greg Vigil @ 02/10/2008 5:03:10 AM

    Here Jeffrey Meffert.
    http://morgellonsusa.com/morgellonsusa.html
    Please take a look at my Microscope Photos and Videos from this page. What it boils down to is that you and your collegues aren't patient enough to discover this for yourselves. Your minds are allready made up, thus the preconceived "diagnosis." You are very arrogant and ignorant.

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