AP Therapy for Morgellons Disease

January 20, 2008

Just caught my eye today in the Washington Post Magazine today. It's

about a 'fiber disease' and some are using AP therapy with helpful

results. This diseases seems to hit those who have been gardening.

They all seem to have lesions and itching with fibers coming out of

their skins. It sounds like there's a LOT of sick people with this

disease too.

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excerpts:

Thousands of people around the world say they have a disease that causes

mysterious fibers to sprout painfully through the skin, and they've

given it a name. The spread of 'Morgellons disease' could be Internet

hysteria, or it could be an emerging illness demanding our attention.<SNIP>

The catalogue of symptoms for Morgellons includes crawling, biting and

stinging sensations, granules, itching, threads or black speck-like

materials on or beneath the skin, skin lesions, fatigue, joint pain and

the presence of blue, red, green, clear or white fibers. Other symptoms

supposedly include what some sufferers politely refer to as

" neurological effects, " such as mental confusion, short-term memory loss

-- and hallucinations such as, possibly, Sue's descriptions of the pink

worm and springtail fly. <SNIP>

Whatever it is -- and most doctors believe it's purely delusional --

Morgellons has become a grass-roots Web phenomenon. Google it, and

nearly 162,000 references show up, many of them chock-full of vivid

color photographs of what people claim are strange, colorful fibers

growing under their skin. Several other sufferers have taken graphic

videos of themselves poking with tweezers at what appear to be

fiber-entangled lesions and then posted them on YouTube. <SNIP>

Her dermatologist had told her to contact NIH. Sue says a researcher

there gave her information on Morgellons Web sites. She went to the MRF

Web site and found that she was experiencing every symptom listed --

fibers, crawling sensations on the skin, brain fog, chronic fatigue,

joint pain and more. <SNIP>

She says she finally found some relief when she went to see

s, a Gaithersburg family doctor. s, who says he himself

has Morgellons and offhandedly mentions aliens and conspiracy theories,

puts his patients on a strict, experimental regimen of high-dose

antibiotics, antiparasitic medication and antifungal cream that can run

as much as $1,000 total.<SNIP>

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