Do you think Morgellons is a real disease?

Question

Yeah, I did watch Primetime last night. It was pretty convincing but did they make it sound more mysterious than it really is? After all, ABC is in it for the money.

Sites like this may make you think twice:
http://morgellonswatch.wordpress.com/

Answer 1

No, I do NOT think Morgellon's Disease is a real disease.

Based on its symptoms, they should have been able to isolate some kind of etiological agent by now: viral, bacterial, parasitic of otherwise.

Also, there is no known mode of transmission. Hard to deal with an "infectious disease" if you can't figure out its mode of transmission (which is generally easy to deduce with a simple epidemiological survey).

Hell, they won't even publicize any findings regarding these so called fibers that are found in the sores. Analyzing the fibers' content is very easily accomplished in a lab, and yet they won't do it? Could it be because their results confirmed that it's fabric lint? And why is it that reports of fibers only starting coming up two years after the condition was described (by a person who is NOT a medical professional, btw -- she's just an over-anxious suburban mom)?

The CDC is only giving a cursory glance to Morgellon's because of intense political pressure from zealots and hypochondriacs. Otherwise, there is no science in any of the findings thus far. I am just waiting for the CDC to confirm (and publish) that the Morgellons crowd are a bunch of wackjobs.

btw, did anyone else notice the "symptoms" mimic those of methamphetamine use?

Answer 2

Morgellons Disease is a real disease definitely yet there are still so much things needed to be discovered about its nature which researchers try to uncover as for the meantime the cause of Morgellons Disease is currently a medical mystery.

Answer 3

Morgellons or Morgellons disease is a controversial name for an alleged polysymptomatic syndrome characterized by the patient finding fibers on their skin, which they believe are related to other symptoms, including intense itching, skin lesions, as well as a wide range of other chronic symptoms. These symptoms are occasionally accompanied by the belief in infestation by some unknown arthropod or parasite. The term Morgellons is not in accepted use by the medical community and the syndrome is widely held by the medical community to be a presentation of delusional parasitosis. There is no agreed-upon physical cause, etiology, diagnostic criteria or proven treatment. Pressure from patients, including doctors and nurses who claim to have a host of difficult symptoms, resulted in June 2006 in a statement from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it had begun organizing a committee for the purpose of investigating Morgellons to determine whether it exists.

Answer 4

I have studied it quite extensively and am convinced it is a psychiatric disorder, with possibly some insect initiation of the sites.

Look up the term "formication"; it is psych disorder, in psychotic states, where the patient feels as though insects are crawling on them.

Answer 5

Did you watch Primetime last night too???

Answer 6

I saw that thing on TV last night about this. Yes. I think it is real. There are way weirder things out there.

Answer 7

I hope not. It sounds like bed bugs plus CFS. Actually it really does sound like a nerve disorder.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

what is morgellons ?