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Scabies or something else?
It started about six months ago when I relocated from a Southern California desert to Crosby, Texas. Couple years earlier I left my motorhome in a friend's backyard in Crosby while I went to take care of business in the Mojave Desert. When I came back to Crosby I straightened up the master bedroom in my motorhome and laid down in front of the window unit and ran the air conditioner blowing on the crown of my head. So the next morning I noticed my scalp was a little itchy but I didn't think much of it, I thought I just needed to shower.
So my head got even more itchy over the next week or so to the point where I started wondering if I may be picked-up head lice somewhere. I didn't see any lice but I went ahead and bought lice treatment anyway and treated with it. I got a little relief, for a minute. It seems like they were starting to grow in my nose and I still constantly pick tiny gooey grey balls from my nostrils and my head constantly flares up and itches like crazy!
So I blasted them with bleach upon taking a flight back to California to take care of some other business and the problem seemed to resolve until the very hour I stepped back into Texas!
So I went back to doing lice treatment, it seemed like I was getting control but then I put on an old shirt one morning and boy let me tell you whatever was in that shirt spread on my body like wildfire! I did the lice treatment again but my showers were nearing 2 and 3 hours a piece to seem to bring it under control again.
I started noticing pimples breaking out on my hands and wrists and lower legs and when I would scratch them the tiny scab would come off and the things would bleed profusely! Let me reiterate, if I pick a scab it would bleed and not want to stop! Blood would come gushing out of any tiny scab anywhere, no matter how small, immediately, GUSHING OUT and would be nearly impossible to stop for the space of 5 to 10 minutes!
Okay so I began Ivermectin, bleach, sarcoptic mange medicine in the form of sprays and shampoos, I've been through Permethrin, demon insecticide, diatomaceous earth, Ajax, Gold Bond powder, neem oil, tea tree, clove oil, pine oil, cedar oil, olive oil, even prayer! NOTHING IS WORKING!
Whatever it is lives in clothes for months! Whatever it is lives in buildings for months! It doesn't need a host evidently, it likes damp. It acts and looks just like scabies! All the articles say scabies dies within 3 to 4 days away from a host, and also says they die under high heat but I have nearly melted my clothes cooking them in the dryer only to have whatever this is STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE in the clothes!
Bleach seems to be the only thing that has any kind of effect but the stuff just keep coming right back!
The only other thing that gives me quick temporary relief is Icy Hot.
Icy Hot and Bleach is keeping me from killing myself but the problem is getting worse!
PLEASE HELP!!!
So my head got even more itchy over the next week or so to the point where I started wondering if I may be picked-up head lice somewhere. I didn't see any lice but I went ahead and bought lice treatment anyway and treated with it. I got a little relief, for a minute. It seems like they were starting to grow in my nose and I still constantly pick tiny gooey grey balls from my nostrils and my head constantly flares up and itches like crazy!
So I blasted them with bleach upon taking a flight back to California to take care of some other business and the problem seemed to resolve until the very hour I stepped back into Texas!
So I went back to doing lice treatment, it seemed like I was getting control but then I put on an old shirt one morning and boy let me tell you whatever was in that shirt spread on my body like wildfire! I did the lice treatment again but my showers were nearing 2 and 3 hours a piece to seem to bring it under control again.
I started noticing pimples breaking out on my hands and wrists and lower legs and when I would scratch them the tiny scab would come off and the things would bleed profusely! Let me reiterate, if I pick a scab it would bleed and not want to stop! Blood would come gushing out of any tiny scab anywhere, no matter how small, immediately, GUSHING OUT and would be nearly impossible to stop for the space of 5 to 10 minutes!
Okay so I began Ivermectin, bleach, sarcoptic mange medicine in the form of sprays and shampoos, I've been through Permethrin, demon insecticide, diatomaceous earth, Ajax, Gold Bond powder, neem oil, tea tree, clove oil, pine oil, cedar oil, olive oil, even prayer! NOTHING IS WORKING!
Whatever it is lives in clothes for months! Whatever it is lives in buildings for months! It doesn't need a host evidently, it likes damp. It acts and looks just like scabies! All the articles say scabies dies within 3 to 4 days away from a host, and also says they die under high heat but I have nearly melted my clothes cooking them in the dryer only to have whatever this is STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE in the clothes!
Bleach seems to be the only thing that has any kind of effect but the stuff just keep coming right back!
The only other thing that gives me quick temporary relief is Icy Hot.
Icy Hot and Bleach is keeping me from killing myself but the problem is getting worse!
PLEASE HELP!!!
You’re not alone. I’m dealing with the same exact thing right now. This has been going on for 5 months now. We’ve been to doctors and dermatologists and all of them do nothing to help except prescribe us ivermectin and permethrin which has not worked.
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We are dealing with the same going on 4 months. Did you get rid of it and how? Please help
I had the same problem. Did same treatments permethrin lotions, ivermectin pills….lice treatments….etc etc etc. wash everything washable store in air right containers or vacuum sealed bags, put mattress in bed bug encasements, check all around inside and outside of house for bird nests. My child put one near the outside dryer vent and that’s how my fiasco/nightmare started. I’m still having PTSD from it!
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Oh don’t forget to vacuum 2-3xs a day empty vacuum right away in garbage can outside and clean everything not washable/dryable with bleach and water or rubbing alcohol
Oh don’t forget to vacuum 2-3xs a day empty vacuum right away in garbage can outside and clean everything not washable/dryable with bleach and water or rubbing alcohol
We are dealing with the same how did you get rid of it and treatment. Please help
Hi! Wondering if you ever found anything else out since? .. Your post caught my attention bc I was first exposed to this at my moms house near Crosby. She described a few of the symptoms and I thought she was being dramatic until I got it. I have it much worse than her now and I have had it for a few years now. I tried so many things with no relief so I stopped wasting my money. Just try to keep things clean and try not to think about it too much i noticed when I was constantly stressing over it seemed to be worse..but still have a few of the scabs at any given time that bleed outrageously and itchy scalp with weird lint stuff. I think it might be some type of fungus bc I got a little magnifier thing and never seen anything actually moving besides little fibers they move which I think are fungal fibers. Doctors don’t help at all. Or if they do I haven’t found one.
I believe this to be a rapid sporing fungal organism that has been geoengineered. In the skin of morgellons patients they have found spirochetes and hpylori. this shouldn't be possible.
The main organism is able to grow rapidly in the environment and is motile (moves). Things that kill it include lemon juice, borax and lysol / dettol.
Cover yourself with salt water until you can start ted's borax remedy at earth clinic - drink some in water and take borax baths with epsom salts. Clothes washing - you need to soak them in the washing machine with salt, borax and add two caps of lysol and lint roll. Keep clothes in bags for now. When I added laundry softener and then put the clothes in the dryer so much of this blue fibrous material clumped together.
DO NOT GIVE UP. You will get better. Replace xylitol for sugar and get tested for lyme as it is likely you have that and there are lots of protocols to treat that too. Good luck!
The main organism is able to grow rapidly in the environment and is motile (moves). Things that kill it include lemon juice, borax and lysol / dettol.
Cover yourself with salt water until you can start ted's borax remedy at earth clinic - drink some in water and take borax baths with epsom salts. Clothes washing - you need to soak them in the washing machine with salt, borax and add two caps of lysol and lint roll. Keep clothes in bags for now. When I added laundry softener and then put the clothes in the dryer so much of this blue fibrous material clumped together.
DO NOT GIVE UP. You will get better. Replace xylitol for sugar and get tested for lyme as it is likely you have that and there are lots of protocols to treat that too. Good luck!
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I’ve washed my clothes in borax and they’re still in my clothes.
I have that itchy crawling feeling all over my body , tried everything but tonight I decided to try tea tree funga soap that seemed to take off a lot of the scaly sandy feeling , so far not itching on the head or body sure hope this is the remedy. I’ll keep at it and know for sure.
That’s exactly right! Bird mites. I was getting long black hairs that wasn’t supposed to be there and used tea tree funga liquid soap and they all disappeared so did the itching and scabs fell off . Did this just once so I’ll continue using it to get the sand feeling off my head. I lost 30 pounds in 2 1/2 months so I was dispret for something to work as all doctors said it was a mental issue- well all 3 of us couldn’t be mentally ill at the same time with the same issues. They completely disappointed me and the way we were talked down to ! This has been going on for 5 months with absolutely zero help. Try the funga soap it’s giving me hope.
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Well so far nothing has helped only worse, I believe it’s bird mites or no see ums - they fly out of my hair when I shake my head. It’s making my body shake and hand numb also feet feels like sand . I’ve tried everything and nothing works.
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