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You may have heard of a bizarre disease that is being rejected by the medical establishment as a real legitimate disease called Morgellon’s disease.  It’s a very sci-fi type of disease if I do say so myself, because patients claim that they get large painful bumps (sometimes it’s a bump, sometimes it’s just a fiber coming out of the skin), with fibers or tough, hair like things growing out of them. 

They say it is also often accompanied by a sensation that there are things crawling under their skin, as if they had parasites crawling within them, just under the skin. One women I read about actually had a fiber growing out of the corner of her eye and when she plucked it out, it left a red mark. 

But the medical establishment so far is not buying it and is saying there is no medical proof that Morgellon’s is a real disease, but rather is a figment of the imagination, or psychosomatic, in other words the disease is really something else and imagined as Morgellon’s or that the patients have some other disease where they are convincing themselves that they are overrun with parasites, which is indeed an actual disease that has been studied and that there is treatment for. 

One woman’s explanation for hers was that it started as large painful, hard bumps that felt hot under the surface on her face, almost like boils or inflammatory acne that looks like boils.  She then noticed that fibers began to come out of the bumps.  Her illness was accompanied by sleeplessness, exhaustion, fevers and sweats and terrible anxiety.  Whether this is indeed a psychosomatic disease or a shared hysteria among patients remains to be seen, but there are studies going on so far that will examine whether this will be classified as a new, real disease or whether it will be dismissed.