Morgellon's: Disease of the Insane

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

UFOs, the Bible, nanobots and parasites, oh my! My god. These people just go on adding crazy symptoms all the time. 

http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=1539936
http://www.dldewey.com/morgel.htm
http://www.marslife.com/frass2.htm
http://bibleprobe.com/morgellons.htm


The Mayo Clinic has such a sensitive, gentle way of addressing it: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/morgellons-disease/SN00043
This website is much more blunt: http://morgellonswatch.com/

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh fucks sake, the Chemtrails people have latched onto it too: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=ke5ES8v-G4bkMJ7pvfEB&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=morgellons+chemtrails&spell=1

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I am somewhat surprised that nobody has yet suggested that it's caused by vaccines. That would make it an index of lunatic fringe paranoia.

[LMNO]

Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?

I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?

I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.

It is being studied, and articles on it have been published in peer-reviewed journals. However, mysteriously, Morgellon's sufferers seem to have a hard time being convinced to go to a doctor to have fibers captured in a medical setting. For another, all the physical evidence so far indicates that the fibers are clothing fibers, and the "worms" are skin flakes and sometimes fingernail clippings, which patients will typically bring in in a baggie.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am somewhat surprised that nobody has yet suggested that it's caused by vaccines. That would make it an index of lunatic fringe paranoia.

Oh, they have. Every type of crazy there is has latched onto Morgellon's. http://morgellons1.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/baculovirus-in-our-vaccines/

[LMNO]

Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?

I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.

It is being studied, and articles on it have been published in peer-reviewed journals. However, mysteriously, Morgellon's sufferers seem to have a hard time being convinced to go to a doctor to have fibers captured in a medical setting. For another, all the physical evidence so far indicates that the fibers are clothing fibers, and the "worms" are skin flakes and sometimes fingernail clippings, which patients will typically bring in in a baggie.

See, right there, that makes me suspicious.  Speaking as not a father, if my kid had some weird shit working its way out of the kid's skin, they'd be in a hopsital stat.


Or, they'd be knitting me a new pair of socks.  It really depends on the tensile strength of the threads.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Does anyone have documented evidence of this stuff?

I'm curious that no medical studies have been conducted, especially since if there was an expensive treatment available, it would generate a lot of money.

It is being studied, and articles on it have been published in peer-reviewed journals. However, mysteriously, Morgellon's sufferers seem to have a hard time being convinced to go to a doctor to have fibers captured in a medical setting. For another, all the physical evidence so far indicates that the fibers are clothing fibers, and the "worms" are skin flakes and sometimes fingernail clippings, which patients will typically bring in in a baggie.

See, right there, that makes me suspicious.  Speaking as not a father, if my kid had some weird shit working its way out of the kid's skin, they'd be in a hopsital stat.


Or, they'd be knitting me a new pair of socks.  It really depends on the tensile strength of the threads.

The symptoms are usually very consistent with delusions of parasitosis. Delusional patients are notoriously hard to work with because on some level they are afraid of having their delusion challenged, which is also why they tend to reject more practical suggestions of alternate diagnoses. In addition, almost all people who self-diagnose Morgellon's get all of their information from the Internet, and many of the "informational" websites also sell or advertise treatments. It's becoming an industry.

It doesn't take very much forum-browsing to see very clearly that many or most of the people posting are, um, batfuck crazy. Which is even more sad than it is hilarious, because it essentially means that here is an industry building around feeding into and taking advantage of the delusions of mentally-ill people.

[LMNO]

It doesn't take very much forum-browsing to see very clearly that many or most of the people posting are, um, batfuck crazy. Which is even more sad than it is hilarious, because it essentially means that here is an industry building around feeding into and taking advantage of the delusions of mentally-ill people.

For a second there, I thought you were talking about the Fox News channel.







ZANG!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It doesn't take very much forum-browsing to see very clearly that many or most of the people posting are, um, batfuck crazy. Which is even more sad than it is hilarious, because it essentially means that here is an industry building around feeding into and taking advantage of the delusions of mentally-ill people.

For a second there, I thought you were talking about the Fox News channel.








ZANG!

Same thing.