Morgellons a wind up??

[mummissinghermind]

am i unreasonable to think that this is a wind up? If its not, its totally horrific,

Does anybody have first hand knowledge of this? Is the medical profession quick to dismiss such ailments? Am i a cynical witch[changes judgey pants for clean pair].

what do you think, im both repelled and drawn.

I've just attended a case conference on a patient with this. There is a patients organization going to have it recognized but current medical thinking is it is a psychiatric disorder.

Explain?

yy I am thinking psychiatric too

yesterday's G article here

Ive never heard of it and had to google it.

I saw that article too and had to check it wasn't dated April 1st .

Not sure about it TBH, had a brief google and looked at the wiki page, it's all rather odd.

now im itching all over! grrrr at op.

why did you have to introduce such a notion into my conciousness

Have read.

Good grief.

I once worked in a medical practice and a lady used to ring regularly saying she had insects under her skin. It does of course also sound psychological - a product of our strange bacterially obsessed age.

How bizarre!!

it sounded to me that it could be caused by something triggering our usual 'itch sensation' into overload. very bizarre but feel sorry for them.Classic case of more you protest it is real the more they think you have mental problems.

I'm half way through reading the article and scratching as I read! Argh!

Doesn't help that my 4 year old is "walking" on me with her fingers right now

Scratching too.

Reading this has turned a pile of Mumsnetters into monkeys!

itchy now. like talking about lice makes your head itch. off to inspect myself with a magnifying glass.

Sounds like scabies to me. They really are parasites that burrow under your skin, drives you mad with itching.

I don't know what to think. The idea that the fibers are unidentifiable brings them to the conclusion that it's some sort of alien parasite, and I find that difficult to believe. But, I tend to think anything is possible so there is a part of me that finds the idea of Morgellons absolutely horrifying.

And I itch, damn it. I have to keep reminding myself that I have a sunburn and have been itching since 12 hours before I read that article!

I've convinced myself i have it, i've been looking for red and blue fibres.Found a few last night getting ready for bath,[shocked] and then realised they were actually off skanky royal wedding knickers[embarrassed].

And no i havn't had them on that long.

I belong to a chronic pain support group, and a member there had that. Well, she thought she did. That wasn't her reason for being in the group, she had some other problems with her neck and back.

As I didn't know her in real life, I do not know if she had any psychiatric problems, but she certainly had medial problems.
It was on her arms and her scalp. She wondered if it was related to her son, who was stationed somewhere overseas, as it began shortly after he came home for a visit, but nobody else was affected. She did end up passing away, from a brain tumor.

iscream im 42 and when i was a teenager my best pal at school had what we now know as M.E, so i hate to think im being a cynic.Just this one sound so 'out-there'.

I initially thought April Fools joke too. Sounds psychiatric to me, which of course doesn't make it any less awful!

I know. I don't know what to think either.

I have read about this before, a couple of years ago... I don't think they know any more about it yet, do they?

I have a neurological disorder. As part of it I have itching that does feel like there are insects under my skin. Of course there aren't, but it is a recognised description of this symptom.