CDC Finds Morgellons Disease Likely Psychological

They said the same thing about endometriosis 50 years ago. Women were just crazy or frigid, and all those cysts and adhesions were just normal variances in female anatomy. Doctors can be arrogant sometimes. If we can't find the cause than it must be imaginary.

As a healthcare worker, I have been following this for a couple of years. Other sources on the net (as reliable as the Federal government) have stated that the fibers could not be identified with the national registry of fibers (yes, there is one; used for criminal investigations). Cotton and nylon would surely have been identifiable. We do not know everything about health, medicine and disease. Perhaps this is a new parasite/microbe. Time will tell.

"Interest and concern regarding Morgellons disease had increased substantially in the last few years as the number of reported cases began to rise, particularly in California." Ain't this a great state?

CDC = FAIL

They also think fibromyalgia, IBS, and chronic fatigue syndrome are psychological!

Doctors also used to say that menstrual cramps and labor pains were psychological, too. Idiots.

FUNNY...they said similiar things when other "diseases" were first seen in large numbers of patients...AIDS, Cancer...Fibromyalgia, CFIDS, even depression (which IS a physical ailment)...JUST BECAUSE they don't have tests developed yet, does NOT mean that it doesn't EXIST

How can you fake skin rashes or sores, a "crawling sensation" throughout the body, severe fatigue, joint pain, the presence of "fibers" coming out of the skin, and vision and behavioral changes?

I think the CDC should take the blinders of and take a serious look at the problem. People infected would rather not suffer like this!

As a nurse I have seen this a few times and I have also experienced it myself, so here is something to think about. Doctors and nurses have been known to take on the symptoms of ill patients they are caring for. Sometimes they even come down with the exact same disease. This may be a possibility but personally I doubt it. My intuition tells me that it's chemical and it's from Chinia.

This study is incorrect. Funny how they love to label things that they don't understand as psychiatric. Keep searching......

115 patients and their percentages, discoveries of origin probabilities, and one glory-stomping pscy ego ain't the whole picture. A host-mite is possible. A condition is not a disease. CDC contracted Kaiser for this study. Now CDC is off the hook for "disease." It's a condition. A parasite is a bummer. A warmer climate can host the mite-spider transfer from a warmer jungle envionment. Look for bamboo and teakwood furniture use. Eliminate insect profusity. Escavate wounds, and cleanse-pull all matter.

Here we go again. Why is it when there isn't an answer, it doesn't exist? Nature is full of things we have no answers to, yet these things are acknowledged. The human body is no different.

Isn't 78% of the sample significant? 78% had had significant (one would assume) exposure to solvents, which are known to effect brain function; doesn't that point to an area for further inquiry? Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia used to be spoken of as psychological, and now they're considered legitimate diagnoses.

That's Nuts!

I think the CDC is imaginary too

maybe its from the genetically modified food that monsanto is putting in the seeds and cattle?

My first thought when I heard about this was psychosomatic. And, the sufferers don't have to "fake it" because the brain is such a marvellous thing, it can produce the symptoms if the patient really believes they have them, which is, I believe, what psychosomatic means.

What they showed on the individuals elbow - looked like mange mites. Actually,my Dad was diagnosed by a Pharmacist - the doctor we saw that day for something else pushed it off as winter rash, Duh. We just called our GP for a prescrip and it was gone in a few days. The itch is chronic because the little mites dig under the skin, urinate and it burns (itches) and they populate and move. Crazy!

ive gone to so many doctors, hospitals, and clinics to no avail. I have spent thousands on scabies creams, my friends call me "lotion boy". I now know more than the doctors do about Morgellons, I believe it to be threadworm aka pinworm. It's unusual for them to infect the skin, they are hatched in the intestinal tract. I spread them onto my skin from my fingernails, even though I take 2 baths aday and constantly clean my nails, they still appeared dirty. I'm tired of being told I'm delusional by doctors, I've turned to natural cures along with Reese's pinworm medicine, I take raw garlic cloves and apple cider vinegar. Within 2 days I've had the worms vacating my skin all over.

"A full 78 percent had been exposed to solvents"
"mysterious symptoms -- skin rashes or sores, a "crawling sensation" throughout the body, severe fatigue, joint pain,"
These are key symptoms. The rest are more than likely ignorance about how the body works and the inability to clearly discribe symptoms.
This is IMO an neuro disorder caused by chemical damage/sensitivity. The sores are caused by scratching and the fibers are from the clothing fibers are caught in the weeping sores as it scabs over.

Were the Kaiser study patients paid? What was the percentage of drug users? How do you get long wire thin strands to stick straight out of a body (vs fibers sticking to an open wound scratched bug bite). Why should the comment of one psych doctor matter with 115 patients, especially when he needs a video spot to reveal his proposal? CDC simply wanted to finalize their release of concern that a condition is not a disease. Please, spare us the interpretive without your intellegence. (Morgellons.org)