Topic: morgellons: catching it or giving it to a partner, family member etc
lpkayak
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PLEASE LIMIT RESPONSES TO THIS SUBJECT. THANKYOU.
i have searched this site and read the morgellons site info. i know there is no proof it is contageous(sp?) but there are anecdotal instances. i'd really like to know.
4 days after hugging a person with sores that look like morgellons, i got my first sore. got a second the next day. they are not dx yet. but they really follow the pattern of what i have read. this was not a sexual encounter-just a hug but possible skin to skin-hey! it's summer.
there was one incidence where a fiance began to have symptoms of his/her(couldn't tell) partners morgellons. it did not say if it was a possible sexual exposure.
anyway-i'm a little scared and would like to bring info from here to my llmd-he pays attention to what i tell him from this forum. thanks
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I am no expert, but the lesions and sores it is my understanding are full blown Morgellons and aren't something that happens in a matter of days, I would say it takes a year or more to get to that stage, I could be completely wrong however.
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lpkayak
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thanks. i have had many of the other symptoms for years and blamed it on lyme. this is better news than i expected...but i'll leave it out here for awhile to see if anyone else responds.
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What other symtpoms? Crawling, biting, stinging sensations?
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lpkayak
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Is...yes all of those plus numbness on all extremities, brain fog, and a lot of other symptoms from the morgellons site-i can't remember them now. i just thougtht they were lyme.
i've had these sores a week now-the one i keep trying to get the fibers out of has grown to what looks like a bullseye abotu 6-8" in diameter and it has a really hard bulb of something under the skin that grew to abotu 2 " last night-i felt it getting bigger. no wonder docs think we are crazy. i see doc tomorrow-but the fibers just fall apart when i finally get one out so i have nothing to take. . there is also whitish discharge but i don't know if it is pus or the hydrogen peroxide-i also have had a flu(ache all over-hair hurts-hot and cold and clammy) that comes and goes since noon yesterday-it goes away when i take my supps...today i took extra coq10 to see if it would make the flu go away. the other sore that i am not picking on is way smaller-not a bullseye-not as painful. walking and sitting is hard there is so much pain-and lying down is tricky.
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The folks there are making great strides in getting these lesions to heal up quickly and improve their health (but not quite cure) back.
Some even claim they have totally rid themselves of it, I am following the regiment of one of those such persons.
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However, I'm no doctor and very new to all of this.
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lpkayak
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Is-thanks very much. i am not new to this but it keeps changing and there is more and more info when my bain is less and less able...but thanks for the tip---i think i have been there but b4 the sores-it may all look different now.
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lpkayak
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so-its been two days . no one here had an experience of giving it or catching it from someone close to them?
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