First doc gave me a diagnosis of bird mites.
A dose of ivermectin and permethrin cream.
Didn't do the trick.
Second doc gave me a diagnosis of contact dermatitis.
Steroid ointment.
Third doc never really offered a diagnosis. Steroid cream.
I asked for a microscope to be employed.
No go. They didn't have.
5x lighted magnifier from WallyWorld.
Could see tiny black specs on my hand.
Saw one come up into my palm surface.... from beneath the surface.
Got a 13 buck 60/100 scope from The Shack.
Took a look.
My, my. Look at that thread bundle....
Wrote up a description, popped it into Google, and away I was whisked into Morgellons Land.
And I saw plenty of permutations of the thing on my skin surface... and just below the surface.
And matches for every single thing there in Scary Town.
Something just wasn't ringing up right.
Too many people supposed something was so, was true, just because they'd read it on the net.
Without having any technical background, without proving things for themselves.
Looked at nematodes.
Took another look at those, "threads."
Yep. Identified.
And soooooo very many of the pics at the Morg sites are just that.... nematodes..... and, IMO, the multitude never took the time to take a look at the pics of nematodes, note some key identifying structures, and employ critical thinking.
So a nematode. Quite likely something more mundane. But... still.... scary. Particularly the most likely candidate... the one that can live its entire life cycle, over and over and over, in a human....
That is now more prominent in the U.S. due to unseasonable warm spells and massive immigration.
Could be something, "more exotic," GMO, blah blah, but Occam's Razor has proven to be very reliable thus far.
And I have been to parts of the world where threadworm is much more endemic, much wider spread through the general populaces.
Even with that, "exotic travel," I was able to find matches for what I was seeing under the scope at Morgellons picture galleries from suffering souls right here in the states.
This is not to say that experiments employing nano thingies is out of the question.
May, may not be some done here and there.
It is to say that the vast majority of pics I've seen, and I went hog wild trying to find out as much as I could.... fit right into Nematode Land.
The nematode afflicting me has migrated to the epidermas.
There are other things too going on but I'm not going to bore you.
Plenty of them are Consonant with what people associate with Morg as well...
I got a tube of horse paste, that ol' standby, Ivermectin, today.
As well, I have reverted back go my healthy diet... the one that uses good ingredients and balance... where I culture my own yogurt, sour cream, kim-chi (what people call today pro-biotics... we just called them Healthy).
I was off that diet when this thing Reared Its Head, Threw Back The Curtain and announced It Was Here.
I don't think, based on what I've read of professionals putting their hands and minds to the subject, as in governmental, medical organizational, and educational institutions, that I am presently in a position to attempt to go all the way.
Finances and personal situation make this so.
I do intend to mount a beat down, beat back campaign and then maintain a holding action to keep the numbers down.
Maybe, someday.... I will be in a position to have enough Dough Ray Me, enough Coin Of The Realm.... to leave everything behind.
Get myself out to an Arizona desert locale, all new and sanitized clothes, minimal & easily maintainable furnishings... and mount that War To Win, that Eradication Program.
Even then, I know there must be a Prophylactic Protocol in Place that prevents any Potential Future Uprising.
As I am pushing 70 that would be a very slick trick indeed.
And I'm currently in SwampZone, a part of the U.S. where the threadworm is actually endemic.
BTW. I have backgrounds in sterile culture work, microscopy, some chemistry, and electronics... among other things.
Some of that is of a more arcane nature from times past.
That is why I couldn't go All In with so much of what people are proselytizing, "Morgellons," To Be.
I couldn't jump on board and parrot, being one that has actually Used The Scientific Method to prove or excuse, as in reject, a hypothesis.
Now, that is where I am at.
I hope that this little blurb may be of some help to some confused people.
It's already a jungle out there and having some lousy affliction and trying to get to the bottom of it... is a task.
All information presented here is anecdotal, and that is that.
BTW.... I'm four months out from blatant epidermal manifestations.
However, I can look back, and know that something wasn't right, that this thing would take a run at the outer layer from time to time and back off without really showing itself.... though with some of the other, "classic," things that go on with it being there but unknown to me as connected simply because they were not discerned as a Threat.... for Decades.
I've been used to being a pragmatic, yet thinking out of the box when appropriate, disciplined explorer.
And applied that to this, ahem, Problem.