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8 8 Morgellons ‘Cynics’ Morgellons ‘Cynics’ Should One Reason getting arthritis. She beat Yale to the obvious. Should One Reason with Morgellons’ 5) The skin damage is self-inflicted. The use of “meta analysis” is common with Morgellons’ I have a large number of dermatology books, Cynics? and some show self inflicted skin damage. in medicine in an attempt to find out what the Cynics? very best of the contradictory studies are & Sample Replies to These images never look like Morgellons’ skin ultimately saying. Sometimes these conclusions & Sample Replies to Their Doubts damage to me, unless one only looks at very end up being wrong, based on later Metastudies. Their Doubts select areas of itching. Further, as someone who Much of what I was taught about pathology and Continued from Page 7 has been around dozens of individuals with especially treatment is already dated. Continued from Page 7 large numbers of fire ant blisters and itching, I In conclusion, most physicians have no commonly see individuals very agitated with training in the science of knowing and how to 3) These patients are not physically ill. the residual fire ant blister on their feet and legs. discern their own biases. They believe it is easy In my attempts to invent a fire ant treatment to to know based on last months journal articles Sometimes one looks over the prevent damage at the bite site or death in a rare and this is simply not realistic medicine. Morgellons work up of an internist, infectious few, I have intentionally allowed myself to be Much medical care is mere symptom disease physician or a dermatologist and it is bitten 15--20x as I have worked to design a relief without a full understanding of the cause clear they are trying to be very careful to limit rapid treatment. The day after the bite, many or mechanism of the pathology. So much of any testing. Perhaps they are afraid the people want to severely scratch at the bite site what we do as allopathic physicians is to treat insurance companies will not renew their due to pain and a severe itch. On the worst abnormal findings, not discover the cause of the contract if they order too many tests. Or they patients I have seen with massive numbers of abnormal findings. And we do poorly with will be wasting healthcare dollars. One can bites (30 plus on the feet), followed by itching illnesses that stump and at times annoy us, respect this in some cases. Yet I would appeal and picking/scratching the following day, I have because we did not study 20 years to be left that Morgellons patients should have very never seen lesions that even remotely look like trying to understand something outside our aggressive work-ups. Limiting their lab testing Morgellons lesions. voluminous training. to 3-4 blood tubes is really saying one has no Morgellons lesions are complex, diffuse, We have a clear large group of patients wish to find abnormalities, and one is only deep and have many types of skin presentations with very similar troubles, diverse and clear going to look for severe organ failure. I do not all at the same time. If there is any “delusion” to abnormal labs, profound skin disease and they know anyone who thinks Morgellons is caused be found in Morgellons, it is that it looks like are found in many places, but with areas of by severe organ failure such as kidney or liver the skin organ itself has become delusional and higher concentration, e.g., California, Texas and failure, so this is playing at a diagnosis. shows a vast array of pathology all at the same Florida. This sounds like another example of a time. As a research clinician who invents clear medical syndrome with clusters. Yet, as of 4) Morgellons illness is not a medical illness, treatments in many areas of medicine, one this year this Morgellons illness is not in the but simply a specific delusion. should really be careful about simplistic newest “comprehensive” medical textbook. But answers in this age of NASCAR medicine--the I guess there is a reason they continually revise Simply, this is not credible because physician runs from the intake door to the exit all major medical textbooks, because medicine 20,000 things can go wrong with the human door faster then an INDY 500 race car, just to is a lifetime of constant medical discovery. I body. Why then are the 20,000 possible make payroll. Simple answers are often only wish so many patients did not have to feel “delusions” all the same in general content. We ridiculous answers. And calling Morgellons a rejected and ignored while health care workers do not believe in “diabetes delusions,” because delusion with self-inflicted lesions is something come to accept this medical problem. we often do extra basic lab testing to catch early that will embarrass medicine in the coming diabetes and because we see a cluster of people decades—in the same manner in which HIV For more information, please visit, with the same problems. Just because this was trivialized and ignored. www.MorgellonsMD.com [] Morgellons cluster tends to be restless does not mean they are psychotic—most heart attack 6) I go by studies not people’s complaints. patients are restless and are often given an anti- anxiety medication to decrease their fear, which It is very surprising to some physicians to also decreases the oxygen demand on the heart. learn just how little of allopathic medicine is Again, if you only do organ failure supported by quality studies. Most medicines blood testing you will not find Morgellons are used for off label uses with limited research. abnormalities. Of course you could also miss Many medical beliefs are based on studies that cancer, very early diabetes and a heart attack disagree. Many positions held in each decade also, because these do not usually show up on are altered 10-20 years later—this seems to be basic simple lab tests. routine. Medications felt to be safe based on Finally, I have found rare Morgellons FDA approved studies, are not safe in later advocates who report they know the SINGLE studies—usually due to the experience of a few cause of the disorder. Yet I find 15-20 common patients. In child psychiatry, major changes in abnormal findings and Morgellons is not prescribing have occurred based on the bad reducible to one thing. Indeed, I usually find experience of 1-9 children or adolescents. In about 4-8 causes of their Morgellons, which other words, massive medication changes have combine to cause the symptom cluster of happened based on the report of a few patients Morgellons. A small sample of these include the and their experience or “complaints.” many very severe types of Bartonella skin I once used an enzyme blocker to stop a damage, Babesia, mycotoxin war-like blood cancer in one patient, and it worked so biochemical agents found in 30% of USA amazingly, it has become the standard treatment structures, Lyme, various bio-toxins and for this cancer and some other related cancers synthetic toxins, parasitic agents, a fully all over the world. One patient changed the exploded inflammation system in the presence treatment of many cancers, years before any T To Get Your FREE o Get Your FREE of an impotent anti-inflammation system, and studies existed. Many medical problems have Sample of many other causes. 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