Articles about Morgellons Disease

• "A Cure for Morgellons Disease?"  From RangeMD.com.  "Every doctor has those patients in their practice. They have chronic pain or other myriad of symptoms but all the blood tests, scans, and even biopsies keep coming back negative or normal. Yet the symptoms persist and the patient keeps returning for follow up visits convinced that they have some horrible disease..." 
• "Called 'delusional,' patients try to find their own way without doctors' help." By Frank X. Mullen Jr. of the Reno Gazette-Journal.
• "Delusions of Parasitosis versus Morgellons Disease: Are They One and the Same?"  By Ginger Savely, RN, FNP-C and Mary Leitao, Director of the Morgellons Research Foundation.
• "Doctors Give Hope to Patients With Long Histories of Unexplained Symptoms." By Dan Hurley of the New York Times. 
• "Is Morgellons Disease Caused By Chemtrail Spraying?"  By Ted Twietmeyer.  
• "Making their Skin Crawl."  By Benjamin Chertoff.  Popular Mechanics Magazine June 2005 page 60.
• "Morgellon's Disease: Mysterious Ecto-Parasites."  "Transcript of a Four Part Series on CBS 47 Jacksonville News."  
• "Mysterious skin disease puzzles patients."  by Celine McArthur / Healthvue Reporter.  From the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation.
• "Mystery Disease". From television channel 47 in Jacksonville, FL.  
• "Mysterious lesions defy definition."  by Sandy Kleffman Contra Costa Times. 
• "Why Reassurance Fails in Patients with Unexplained Symptoms�An Experimental Investigation of Remembered Probabilities." By Winfred Rief, Andrea Maren Heitmuller, Katja Reisberg, and Heinz Ruddel.  From PLOS Medicine.

Clinical Trials for Morgellons Disease

Because Morgellons Disease is not recognized yet by the medical establishment, it is unlikely that there are clinical trials associated with the disease.   However, it is always good to search the trials sites just in case.

• Directory of clinical trial books, organizations, government agencies, online forums, egroups, online discussions, bulletin boards, and listservs. 

Encyclopedic Information about Morgellons Disease

•  Morgellons disease case description and information from Morgellons Research Foundation.  Comment:  Click on the Case Definition tab. 

Forums on Morgellons Disease

If you join one of these support groups, please mention that you found their group through Medconsumer.info.

• BeingSick � A global community of loving people who understand what its like to be sick or care for a loved one.  "We are a community of loving supportive people who understand what its like to be sick. We live with illness, injury, disability, or care for those that do. This group is a place where you are free to be yourself. Share your frustrations about being sick, friendships, family, and just about anything! We are the family who understands when no one else does! We live your life too! You are welcome to post in HTML, colors, send links, web pages, poems, inspiration, e-cards, jokes, chat in our chat room anytime! We are non-denominational, welcoming all races, ages, religions and cultures. We know how tough life is being sick, and we care. There is support for you here anytime you need us. You are not alone."  Yahoo! group. 
• Medconsumerinfo.  "Medconsumer.info is your starting point for searching the Web for medical information. This forum exists for you to discuss, ask questions, and answer questions about any aspect of health, healthcare industry, and any aspect of being a patient. Please take whatever advice you receive through this forum to your doctor before changing or initiating any medically-related behavior."  Yahoo! group.
• Morgellons.  "There is very little info available on Morgellons. One thing...IT IS
  NOT ALL IN YOUR HEAD! I hope to be able to have a list of doctors who
  are openminded enough to realize that, because the doctor doesn't know about a particular problem, the patient isn't crazy. I would like to
  have a list of Egomaniacal ducks (MDs) to avoid. This is a support
  group.
  
  Symptoms include eye problems and swelling, mental decline, hair
  falling out, skin problems including itching, blue spots, white spots, stuff coming out of your skin, skin "stretching", swelling, redness on
  the side of the lips, inside the elbows, on feet and more. In desperation, I put antibiotic cream on the redness on the inside of my elbows and thought I would go out of my mind from the itch. Washing the abx cream stopped the itching. My nails break and I have urinary
  frequency (helped by zinc supplements) but, though they came with the Morgellons symptoms, I'm not sure they're from Morgellons.
  
  Patients appear to have chronic lyme disease (diagnosed or undiagnosed).
  I'm ome of those people who believe that Lyme, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, MS, and many more, are different strains of the same
  disease.
  
  Sugar and carbohydrates appear to make my Morgellons symptoms worse.
  Going off carbs for a few days lessened my symptoms. Lotrimin (over the counter) around the eyes helped my eye symptoms. Lotrimin and Bactroban (prescription) Cream seems to help skin problems. Do NOT use Bactroban Cream around the eyes."
• morgellons_bayarea.  "A pro-active support group for bay area residents suffering from Morgellons Disease."
• Morgellons Page.  "This page is made available to post any stories, life experiences, or observations on Morgellons."
• morgellons_texas.  "A Common place to unite and share.
  
  Hoping to build a solid foundation in which to present to the medical and government communities in the USA.
  
  We have something living within our skin. It is a Frightening and troublesome issue."           

News about Morgellons Disease

• Morgellons disease news from Google News.

Organizations Related to Morgellons Disease

• American Psychiatric Association (APA).  "The American Psychiatric Association is a medical specialty society recognized world-wide. Its over 35,000 U.S. and international member physicians work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorder, including mental retardation and substance-related disorders. It is the voice and conscience of modern psychiatry. Its vision is a society that has available, accessible quality psychiatric diagnosis and treatment."     
• American Psychological Association (APA).  "Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide."  
• Charles E. Holman Foundation.  "We will raise awareness of Morgellons Disease by:
  1. Educating the medical community
  2. Raising funds for research
  3. Creating a patient support system
  4. Alerting local, state and federal health agencies."  
• International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS).  "ILADS is a nonprofit, international, multidisciplinary medical society, dedicated to the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of Lyme and its associated diseases. ILADS promotes understanding of Lyme and its associated diseases through research and education and strongly supports physicians and other health care professionals dedicated to advancing the standard of care for Lyme and its associated diseases."
• Morgellons Research Foundation.  "The Morgellons Research Foundation is dedicated to finding the cause of an emerging infectious disease, which mimics scabies and lice. This foundation has referred to this infectious disease as "Morgellons Disease", due to the need for a consistent label when contacting politicians and health departments. The cause of Morgellons Disease is currently a medical mystery.
  
  Most individuals with this disease report disturbing crawling, stinging, and biting sensations, as well as non-healing skin lesions, which are associated with highly unusual structures. These structures can be described as fiber-like or filamentous, and are the most striking feature of this disease. In addition, patients report the presence of seed-like granules and black speck-like material associated with their skin." 

Photographs

• Morgellons Disease photographs from Google Images.

Videos

• Morgellons Disease Mystery.  "In connection to the California-based public affairs TV show, The Life & Times Blog provides a venue for viewers and everyone in the blogosphere to comment on any of the controversial topics that the TV show (Life & Times) airs. Stories have a Los Angeles focus." 
• Morgellons Disease videos from YouTube.com.
• Video From KPRC-TV in Houston: "Patients Try To Convince Doctors That Skin Disease Exists."
  • Mystery Illness Updates.