We received a very distressing email from a reader recently who is suffering from some sort of parasitic infection, or what is believed to be a parasitic infection. The parasite is complicated. It is decribed as white with a “hard ribbed outer shell,” and it can curl up or lie flat. It is under the skin of the reader, but it can break through, and it causes a lot of itching and discomfort. “Tangles of very small worms” are also somehow related to the parasite’s life cycle, but it is not clear how. (Are the thin, small worms somehow part of the parasite or are they a separate parasite? Or perhaps they are actually the parasite itself at some stage in its life cycle?) While we are by no means qualified to render a diagnosis (and so we aren’t), our reader’s description brings to mind that of Morgellons disease, a very strange ailment that the medical community regards as a “delusional infestation,” even though the afflicted swear the disease is physical and not mental.
In the strongest possible terms, we must emphasize that we are not medical professionals. Nothing we say should in any way be construed as medical advice, and anyone with an illness should seek the care of a qualified medical professional. Unfortunately, this disclosure, while absolutely necessary, will likely frustrate our reader, as she has “begged universities” to help her identify her problem, and she has sent hundreds of emails and pictures to doctors and researchers. Evidently, she also visited a doctor at one point because she had a biopsy done. According to the reader, the medical community has basically ignored her. While we have the greatest compassion for our reader and want deeply to help her, we simply aren’t qualified to offer anything but some information we’ve have learned over the years writing about worms and various other creatures. What we offer is, once more, not medical advice, and we have to insist that she visit a doctor for help. Even if one doctor didn’t help, she should visit another. Alas, patients have to be their own advocates sometimes.
The reader sent us numerous pictures, some of which are fairly graphic. We have included a few images below.
Here is a picture of the reader’s skin, showing what the reader claims to believe is the work of a parasite:
The reader seems to imply that the large red spot indicates where the parasite is under her skin. At one point in her email, the reader says that the parasite is “encased in a sack” – it is not clear if this is always the case – and perhaps it is the sack that is the visible red spot. The reader says that the parasite also has “breathing tubes,” and she says that it “seems to need three connectors to the skin surface, in a triangle pattern on the skin.” The fainter red spots do make a type of triangle pattern.
Again, the reader made reference to worms, and these seem to be depicted in the following image that appears to be taken through a microscope.
This microscope image shows another “worm,” and we presume the blob-like thing that the worm intersects with is what the reader is calling “the parasite.” (Although the reader provided us with an extremely detailed email – probably the most detailed All About Worms has ever received – there is no explanation of what each individual picture shows.)
The last thing we want to do is be glib about our reader’s problem. She is clearly suffering – she says that she shaves her head every day to alleviate the itching, and she swears the creatures inside her have seriously compromised her body. (She says they have blocked her uterus, for instance.) If the reader does have Morgellons disease (and we are not offering a medical diagnosis), her discomfort is real. And of course the reader may not have Morgellons disease, and perhaps is suffering from a parasitic infection, exactly as she says. In either case, we urge our reader to seek medical help, and not just by emailing doctors and researchers photos. She needs to be evaluated by a physician as soon as possible. Our heart goes out to our afflicted reader. We wish her the very best.
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My husband & I been fiting this problem for three years. We both have parasites & Morgellons fibers, black dots, & sand looking stuff coming out of our pores. My husband has bad intestinal problems & I have small worms in my pea. We both have had enough. We need help, & the Doctors here are not smart when they send you to a head-shrink. We been to different Doctors looking for help. Nobody here no’s anything, so we don’t mention it to any one any more.
Did you get this issue resolved? I’m dealing with similar thing …it’s weird stuff…but yeah I’m a complete loner and completely cut myself off from society because the accusations of it being caused by other things…
I also have the same marks all over my skin for four years now no doctor has believe me maybe today they will believe me because now I have big rockhard nuts in my ankles and tiny flies come out of them from what you have told me it is the parasite ….is called screw worms.
yes and my email gi*******@gm*.com
got the exact same thing Triangular sores got a lot of photos even one of the perpetrator.
this is not morgellons. And no doctor yet has taken me seriously seen 6 so far. And yes these critters have tubes for oxygen I in Iceland and was working on a house that came from China, these start by being small triangles under the first layer of skin that move around (They move wherry slowly) and morph into the bigger ones who show sores in a triangle shape then the bigger ones station themselves in a bigger triangle shape (5cm apart) with some kind of connection between them (At first i thought a had a huge one)
the bigger ones move under the second layer of skin so when i remove them i get there skin shell but they are still there. but i have gotten to them down there and i have a photo of one missing half of its body. i find nothing about it on the web except on your site. been plastered like a mummy for a month from the from the government skin division and the sores went away, but when they came off they just re surfaced. one other thing to mention when i try to remove them i get them if I’m really fast, otherwise they latch on really hard and sink into the skin and there is no way to remove them.
They don’t like it when i smoke. one night i put sticker over two of them over there line of oxygen and i could feel them move that night. if anyone out there has this and wants to share information it would bee welcomed just to show the doctor that there are more people out there with the exact same thing and they cant all be having the same delusion..
Yes I have the exact same thing. ca********@gm***.com
I have suffered for over 10 years ,ive got out what like a eggs plus other stuff that looks like very very thin hair that moves. I also need help . I have these spots all over my body. I have pictures video’s. Someone please tey to help us
Since early 2010, i.e. FIVE YEARS, I had lump in fold of finger, the local clinic told me they don’t treat warts, I suffered, tried everything possible over the counter. While working at kitchen sink, I noticed a fat white larvae moving very fast. I think it came out of my finger – at one stage a clinician prescribed Zentel, which is Mebendazole – the skin has little holes, pockets where the stuff is and has been coming out, a lot of hair, it could also be eggs and of course, I am saving to see a dermatologist as I am not on medical aid. It has been absolute hell – also had arthritis which I am sure is related to that, could hardly BEND my finger, it is still stiff, it was deep in the joint. I lost friends and family because of this horrible condition that was not property treated – I am a state outpatient.
Hello, Regarding this post, I am the patient. If I had not added in my message to you, a DNA research lab has found matches to tapeworm, roundworm, beetle and fly in my DNA , skin samples that I submitted to them. It is not “morgellons”.
Yes I have the exact same thing. ca********@gm***.com
Also where is a DNA lab that would do the testing? Do you still have it? I’m getting so scarred. Not sure where to turn either
I have the same sores that are skin eruptions associated with Lyme. It come just out of nowhere appear. The skin on my hands, legs arms shoulders and feet are so discolored and the bumps from where the worm like parasites were are the words. I also get them in eyes and all over my fACE AND under my fingernails which is very painful.