Doctors Skeptical About Morgellons Disease
Doctors around the country and around the world are convinced that Morgellon disease symptoms are created from a delusional mind. Even though thousands of patients around the world and the country have described the same symptoms, the medical community has put up a brick wall when discussing Morgellons. The scientific community will not even consider it a topic for argument. Some doctors and dermatologists have even started to refuse patients who have this condition because they consider it a psychological condition and not a medical one. Morgellon sufferers have started to file lawsuits and malpractice suits against these doctors when told that the disease is in their head and not underneath their skin as they believe.
The reports of cures and treatments have come from a few doctors, but most follow the idea that the patients can be treated with placebos. They believe that if the patients believe that it is a cure, then they will believe they can be healed and will be healed. Tales of cures with silver or copper supplements and holistic treatments of sulfur and salt have even gave claims of the superior healing powers of components. Doctors say the cure is in the mind just as the disease is in their mind. Dr. Peter Lynch of the University of California gives statistics as an argument. He states that eighty percent of all patients with delusions of parasites respond to psychotropic medications that they are given for their psychosis. He said the Morgellon patient can be cured by treating the mind, not the body.
He even discounts the pictures of the Morgellon bacteria that has been posted on the internet. He goes so far as to say, “We have pictures of the Lockness Monster and Bigfoot, but that does not make them real.” Right now, more money and effort has been put into the research of both legends than has been given to Morgellon research. The U.S. government has even given grants to study the Lockness Monster, but has not issued a penny for Morgellons Disease. There is good news; the Center for Disease Control has begun a committee to see if Morgellon exists, not to find a cure or relief from its sufferers. The research has just started and if you ask the Center for Disease Control for help, you will be referred to doctors and medical universities of their choice for diagnosis and reporting if the disease exists. The most common referral goes to the University of California where the biggest dissention about Morgellons occurs. The Californian Department of Health also gives this advice. The truth of the matter is that when they go to the University medical centers they are told the same thing that there locals doctor has told them, “It is all in their head.”
If you are truly suffering from Morgellon symptoms, you should ‘try’ your local resources, but this could be expensive to get the same answer that you are expecting. Try contacting the Morgellons Research Foundation for the latest information and research.