Medical Mystery

I'm interested to see all the "open-minded" folks posting here who have based their opinions of Dr. Meffert on a few lines in an article. Editors do a great job of taking things out of context for the right "sound bite."
Many have posted that his attitude (or what they think his attitude is after seeing a few sentences) is what is wrong with the medical profession. Doctors are too dismissive, too quick to judge, too close-minded, etc.

But if we're ripping on a guy we don't like because he disagrees with us, then that's ok. We're not closed-off, are we? As is typical of any story on an unusual medical condition, every guy with an axe to grind about the arrogant doctors is out in force, lecturing about how the scientists are puppets, engineering the problem themselves, part of the vast conspiracy, etc.
U.S. students lag behind nearly every other industrialized nation in math and science performance, but everybody is a scientific genius when it comes to UFO photos, aliens held in Roswell, the vaccines-causes-autism cover-up, etc.

What's sad is the number of people who have publicly wished bad things to happen to Dr. Meffert - what a sad lot of human beings who wish suffering on someone because they don't like "his attitude".

What's funny is the number of explanations for this real condition: alien invasion, nanotechnology, over-the-horizon imaging systems, engineered nematodes (don't you think a pathologist can tell a fiber in cross-section from a worm? Hint - fibers have uniform consistency, worms have multiple tissues), and a condition caused by companies who have the antidote - which they've shared with doctors like Dr. Meffert.

I wonder why it's hard to take this condition seriously. When you talk about healthcare like your discussing an X-files episode, be prepared to be dismissed.

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

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!

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.

These Dcotor's who doubt this disease, and "do not even want to see the patients," are a more than perfect example of those who DO NOT belong in the field. If they were one of the thousands if not millions who are struggling with this foreign and debilitating disease, I am sure they would not feel the need to be an inconsiderate, obstinant, worthless, careless, pretender of providing care. Of course they start to have signs or anxiety, and stress! They are dealing with horrific practioners, spending hundreds of dollars on idiots who DO NOT KNOW the FIRST thing about providing care! Don't be a TOTAL IDIOT, there are reported cases all across the world! I guess these people all just unified, to fabricate, (no pun intended), a disease that doesn't exist, and spend thousand of dollars with worthless doctor's because they don't have anything else in the world they can think of to do.... Perfect example of the total idiocy that exists.