We have had great success in treating Morgellons. This study offers several findings supporting a strong medical component.
1. We found that 100% of our Morgellons patients have multiple extensive medical illnesses. Simplistic testing using only 2-7 tubes at a large commercial lab will often miss these medical positives.
2. The authors report:"All medical histories support that behavioral aberrancies [eccentric or agitated actions] occurred only after physical symptoms." But most doctors are not used to doing some psychiatry as they fix the medical illnesses.
3. Some patients report parasites, but not all do. In our experience, the sensation of things in the skin dissolves very slowly as the underlying medical causes are removed. Profound pathology of the skin and brain may add to the skin sensation and the infections, etc., in any area.
4. They report what we also see: "The identified abnormalities include both immune deficiency and chronic inflammatory markers that correlate strongly with immune cytokine excess." The second "inflammatory" markers are best tested at Radiance Diagnostics (and National Jewish Health) as discussed in our exciting Destroy Depression book Appendix. Though some markers are useful from LabCorp and Quest.
5. Harvey and others report: "Significantly reduced exercise capacity was highly prevalent."
6. "Weight gain after illness onset averaged 33 pounds."
7. "High levels of fatigue... were ... present in 80% of patients." But not always at the beginning of thier illness.
8. "Recurrent fever by thermometry was noted by 50% of patients."
9. "The sensation of movement [on the skin]... was denied by up to 50% of those experiencing [skin] filaments....
10. "Eight patients (32%) had prior diagnoses of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. [The U.S. adult prevalence rate of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis is 0.56%]. This is an antibody against your thyroid (high thyroid peroxidase).
11. "In a group [of 25 with Morgellons]... [all had] low core temperature and high resting heart rate."
12. "Most patients showed [blood] evidence of infection (antibodies) with one or more unexpected potentially pathogenic microorganisms despite testing for only a few species.
Harvey WT, Bransfield RC, Mercer DE, Wright AJ, Ricchi RM, Leitao MM. Morgellons disease, illuminating an undefined illness: a case series. J Med Case Rep. 2009 Jul 1;3:8243. doi: 10.4076/1752-1947-3-8243. PMID: 19830222; PMCID: PMC2737752.