We recently heard from a reader in distress. She wrote, “Would you please be so kind as to help me identify this (apparent) parasitic worm for me? I’ve searched everywhere I can find, from human parasites to worms of any sort, but can find absolutely nothing that remotely resembles it. And since no one in the medical field has any idea, treatment cannot proceed.” She sent us several photos of the infected area, which is her chin. She explained that the first photos show the head, body, and tail of one worm, and then two mature adult worms:
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Although she has thoughtfully labeled the photos with the parts of the worm, we don’t actually see the worm. This may be because it is under her skin and/or not visible to the unaided eye. She also noted, “the length of it is not clear nor is the body easily distinguishable, as it appears to twist and turn along its path.”
She believes she is dealing with both juveniles and fully mature adults. She wrote, “when it comes to be a fully mature adult, the worm is no longer positioned as an anchor of sorts. It is rather sharp, with each segment expelling a clear fluid when depressed with pressure. Beneath the outer ‘shell’ there is another layer with a semi-fuzzy look and feel.”
Our reader is clearly dealing with a daunting problem. We wish we could be of more help to her, but unfortunately there isn’t much we can do for our reader. We aren’t familiar with any parasitic worms that seem similar to those she is dealing with. In addition, since we aren’t medical professionals, we aren’t licensed to give medical advice. We know that our reader already visited a doctor and left without answers, so we recommend that she instead visit a travel infectious disease specialist. These doctors are typically more familiar with diagnosing and treating unusual cases. To find a specialist she can do an Internet search for “travel infectious disease specialist [her location or nearest big city]”.
To wrap up, today we responded to a reader who believes she is dealing with a parasite infection. We wish her the best of luck solving this mystery and hope she is able to return to good health.
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OMFG I SWEAR TO JESUS SHE HAD WHAT IV HAD 16 YEARS AND THINK ITS MORGELLONS DISEASE. I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYONE ANYWHERE Describe THE ORGANISM 100% IDENTICALLY TO MINE … EVEN THE WORDS SHARP, FUZZY, SEGMENTED, THE CLEAR LIQUID ( However I have determined the liquid excreted is determined by the organism, either a very slippery to sticky, anticoagulant ,acid like( #1 allowing for quick dives thru tissues, protective secretions to evade capture or danger) OR #2 different secretion that instantly seals and protects its burrow, eggs, nest, drying to form an extremely tough difficult to tear or penetrate, a thin, skin-like shell to cover or encase itself or offspring for protection or nesting)
When someone lives with an unidentifiable parasite or organism every second of 365 days per year, and even when clothes or covered, is constantly reminded they are literally eating you and taking over every inch of your body with the pinching biting crawling itching, aching, fatigue, burning and there’s not a damn thing u can do to stop it Doctors say ur psychotic when you are NOT, u get committed to nut wards, laughed at and completely dismissed without any of the med professionals ever, not even just to humor me, take 10 minutes for me to plead my case for me to give them my evidence. My videos. My 65 to 75,000 Google photos my specimens. I have saved my logic my rationale they don’t even take a specimen. They don’t do a scraping. They don’t do a biopsy of the area, absolutely nothing. I had one doctor touch it with a q-tip one time I thought it would punch his lights out. Nothing works. You’ve tried it all so the only answer is just live with it. Suck it up. Try to figure it out and Google everything. You can take the best photos you can possibly take and dream of the day when someone will give you a second to just listen to what you had to say without laughing you out of the office b or calling the men in white! Science shows the world everyday. All the new and interesting organisms, animals, plant life dinosaur bones. I don’t care what it is. Discoveries happen every single day. Medical professionals were once scientists too. They were once students and researchers before they were doctors. Where is that person? Well, I can’t find anyone to give me a chance, but there’s hundreds of thousands of people that say it’s real. CDC will not claim more. Jealous disease is a disease the government will not and I have recently found out that that’s because of an experimental research on insect. Weaponization back in 1962 performed injecting ticks as well as other insects with diseases for slow mass destruction released on the enemy, it does several things, it ties up important resources that a country would need to use in the case an event of a war when they have a outbreak of a disease, it devastates a country wounds, a country and makes the country very vulnerable because its resources are being so focused to save their people. There’s no way it can be major resources and professionals could distributed to save ppl from an epidemic and be available and efficient in times of war or conflict thus making that country vulnerable and virtually defenseless. Maybe the government, as an expert explains, has purposefully kept vile information about this particular disease refused to allow CDC to recognize it because further research and development you might very well determine its origination leads to the US government in 1962 which happens to be the year I was born. And by the way I’m an 18 year female US Army Veteran…how ironic.
This disease is real. She didn’t make it up. She didn’t dream it and you live with it all the time you spend examining it and researching it and investigating it in every single aspect of this development and your own. The only thing I haven’t tried if gasoline amberware torch and I’ve been tempted and that’s the honest truth. That’s how devastating this disease is. I’m not delusional. I’m not a drug addict I’m a 62-year-old military battering and suffers every single day and here’s people all the time on the internet speaking of the jealous and how they want to die and they want to kill themselves and I relate to that. I think about it everyday. How can I not? I’m reminded with every step I take every breath I take. I’m just worried and can’t imagine after all this time. How my brain must look whether it’s infested whether my organs aren’t infested or whether this organism just likes epithelial sounds. I don’t know and I can’t find the doctor that will help me find out so I can live it longer. I do think they go with my lungs because I have trouble breathing. I have a lot COPD issues and my legs and my joints. My legs don’t work. It’s a lot of problems but you can’t do anything if the doctors won’t take you serious. So I begs of you. Please contact this reader for me that wrote the article and give her my information or somehow contact me I would. I really need to get together with her and compare notes and see if she has found someone to help her. I know it’s a long time ago cuz you can’t kill this. You can’t kill it. It’s been here way longer than we have. We’re just having allergic reactions to it. I think it’s everywhere. Please reply. I apologize for such a long post. And I want to thank all of you for this platform and the job that you do and the help that you give so many people by allowing us to realize we aren’t alone and maybe through someone else’s agony and suffering we together can find answers to save ourselves if we can’t find HELP!! Thank you.
I I’d like to leave a comment on this story about the woman with the worm under her skin on her chin. I have that too. Please contact me if at all possible I’d like to compare symptoms and the possibility of exposure, or location it could be helpful to finding out what this is!! No one believes me but I have photos and pictures and I can feel it moving inside my internal bucca and ear and nasal cavities. I live in a rural farm area and recently was exposed to questionable pork for a period of 3months. Lots to share. I feel so alone in this.