It has been a very long time since I have posted about my healing journey with Morgellon's. I have learned a huge key. I think, in fact, I have learned what the actual issue is, instead of just grappling with the effects.  It's wheat gluten intolerance. You can get tested by Cyrex Labs by a doctor signed on with the lab. Cyrex is the only lab who accurately tests for this problem. Do not get a regular medical test which is a waste of money. Cyrex has the top immunologists on gluten intolerance working there. There are 24 blood markers associated with each enzymatic step of the gluten breakdown process. If a person is not able to complete one of the steps, the body may turn on itself in autoimmune attack. And guess what? There is one marker associated with autoimmune attack on the follicles.

Since I have gone 100% gluten free over two years ago, I got 100% remission of my Morgellon's symptoms. I additionally got improved symptoms around my thyroid (tiredness and a deep coldness), and my digestion. But many people who are gluten intolerant have no digestive symptoms at all.

After about 2 years, some of my symptoms returned. In particular, the snapping, prickling, writhing, crawly, and popping sensations of the skin came back, but less so. At first, I thought, oh God, it wasn't just the gluten thing.... It's back! But then one day I overindulged in dairy, eating a whole large container of sour cream (my weakness), and my skin symptoms were so much worse the next day and weeks after. Usually, I'm an IgG girl (meaning that my allergy responses to food or poison oak) come about two weeks later, so it is hard to peg any symptom on a food. But this dairy thing was clear to me. Having come the next day, it was an IgE reaction.

Now there is a thing called gluten cross-reactivity. This means that when your body identifies one amino acid sequence in a protein as the enemy, then the body will attack any protein with that same sequence (thus the attack on self). There is a test by Cyrex that tests the foods that are most commonly cross reactive. Some people have no cross-reactive foods, some have many cross reactivities, or anywhere in between.

Since I have got rid of dairy, my symptoms are mostly gone. But I must say though...just like the years of gluten "minimization" that preceded my "elimination,"I did not get results until I went 100% gluten free including all hidden sources in soy sauce, condiments, beer, packaged foods, bubbly french fries, food in shared friers, etc. And I have not 100% eliminated dairy yet. I had mozzarella cheese and tomato salad (1 piece of cheese) in the last three weeks, for example. But gluten reactions have been studied to last up to 9 months long from just one exposure at most. My worst flare up was for three months from eating fries at Betty Burger, not knowing that they spray something on it to make it bubbly/crispy, likely "deamidated gluten"--the worst kind found in processed foods.

Also, know that the best single thing you can do for your body chemistry is cooked green vegetables. Ah, I'm going to sign out now, but I can tell you why the chemical effect later, and it has to do with the flora in the gut.

This last resurgance of symptoms since my year and a half remission has symptoms coming and going. I have thought I have licked this several times only to have the symptoms come back. I must say that the symptoms are very mild though, even at their worst. I am working on eliminating pathogens out of my system in these ways:

Acupuncture for "crazy itching" points. My acupuncturist told me I have liver heat, and heat in my blood. The heat has no way out of the blood and needs a method out. For these he uses specific points on the gallbladder, liver and wei chi channel (if I recall correctly) that are all for "crazy itching." He also gave me a herbal formulation called Silerex from Evergreen for expressing heat out of the blood. What do you know, but these formerly untreatable warts on my hand have been dissapearing since I started one month ago. And my Morgellon's sensations have dropped off dramatically, especially writhing sensations in my scalp, and the specific bitey sensations on my shins.

Clustered Silver used 3 days prior through to 4 days after the full moon. Based on my Master Herbalist friend's info that many parasites replicate on the full moon, I am amped for a kill-off at this time of the month. I take a teaspoon prior to bed (as my symptoms are worse at night), and a teaspoon in the middle of the night (as I get a sort of restless-body syndrome on these nights). The silver stops the restless body nearly immediately. Remember to do flora building during the rest of the month. Bad gut flora is a health concern in and of itself (too great to go into right here). Just be sure you do not leave your gut barren and ready to host whatever opportunistic thing that comes along.

Antiparasitic Antiviral Tincture used every day. My herbalist friend said to use it 45 days through two full moon cycles, but I am going to use it for at least 4 month cycles due to how hard I know the Morgellons and co-infections are to purge.

Anti-viral Tincture...I introduce this to my nostril 1 to 2 times a day with a q-tip due to the sensations I have around and in my nose. I recall when I first felt the infection set in at my nostrils long ago. In my body, the Morgellons or co-factors like this area. The tincture that I use is an Ayurvedic formulation that helped me get control of chronic herpes about 15 years ago. It is equal parts gentian root (not ginseng), dandylion root, white oak bark and licorice root. You can make a decoction of it. My herbalist friend made a tincture variety that has some glycerin in it. I use cotton swabs, deeply in my nostrils. Upon first use, my seasonal allergy affected drippy nose dried up for good. Then these teeny red follicles around my nose went away. And the prickling and popping sensations are gone. I used to control these sensations only short term with Burts Bees Foot Cream intranasally. The tincture is much better. Regarding the allergies...I wonder about the interrelatedness of our body-response to parasites verses to allergin. It's odd to think that our body thinks an allergin is a parasite, basically.

Food Allergies

When I went into remission for a year and a half, I attributed it to several things. Firstly, two of my old cats died within one month, randomly, and of different things. I recall looking at little Kiki as she sat on the bed, I in the hallway looking in at her. There was a feeling of lightness and we gazed in each others eyes, and I said "The plight is over! Isn't it little one, it's over now!" I just felt a major shift in the air. Little Kiki had been feeling under the weather, but I didn't think it was a big deal. But she progressed, and despite a lot of vet and alternative therapies, she died within 5 weeks of kidney failure. She was a young cat and had gotten kidney failure two years prior, and had survived with Standard Process formulations. It could have been the Ivermectin or sulfer treatments I had given her for mite treatment (vet prescribed) that caused the initial kidney failure. It is horrible to feel I could have killed my girl when I was just doing what I thought best to give relief to her. My old cat, Shell-Belle, died within a month of Kiki. She began swelling up, and her year of demanding behaviour became clear, because she died of omentum cancer (a tissue in the gut). Her fatness was not fat after all, but watery swelling that that kind of cancer cell makes. She had been uncomfortable all that time, not just needy.
So my two cats, immune compromised little beings, died. Things got a lot better with my skin at that point, although I grieved their loss badly. I think that they harbored the mites, being that they were not strong. And the mites seem to be the carrier of this Morgellons in my world.
Prior to their passing, I had made a big shift for the better when I got a blood test for food allergies and eliminated those foods. I am allergic to all kinds of food, and severely so, I found out. After elimination, I stopped many types of itching, and a certain type of puffyness under the skin. I suspect I am allergic to cats too. I wonder if the current flare up I am healing from is due to my third cat, Clower, having decided to sleep on my bed now. The other two girls slept on and in my bed, and it seemed I could not keep them away. Little thin Kiki would be so cold, I could not bear to turn her down when she would meow for me to open the covers and let her in. I tried, for my own health, to lock them out of my room, and they literally cried and threw themselves against my door. I couldn't sleep with that. I (briefly) contemplated the suggestions of my doctor and my family to get rid of my cats for my own health. But in the end, I decided I could only bear to kill them if I got rid of myself too. I thought a lot about how I would get rid of us all; my future looked bleak due to what I thought was a potentially very contagious state of being. I never got close to actually acting out my plan...I just kept on keeping on. As far as my kitty-girls, and our way of life together...I figured that we were all in this together. It was a crucial point when I made that determination that I will not put myself above another, and choose my well-being over theirs. I chose "love" over "fear." I can't imagine the torment I would have if I killed them intentionally, knowing how I feel about having probably harmed Kiki unintentionally.
Back to the food allergies. Make sure you use a lab, like US BioTek, that lists IgG and IgE separately. If the lab does not report them separately, you will get false negatives. IgE is the short term antigen, and you will get your reaction pretty immediately, fading off at least by 2 days. IgG is the delayed reaction antigen, with symptoms coming on in hours or days after the food was eaten, and symptoms fading off by the second week. This makes it hard to self diagnose your own allergies, when your reaction can come so much later. If your blood lab reports the two together (as in, reports a positive only when you have both IgG and IgE reactions to a food), then you will not be informed if you have even a severe, but only short term OR only delayed type of reaction. It is the delayed reactions that have worse repurcussions for tissue loading of toxins.

Full Moon Correlation and "Phosfood"

So I am still winding out of this flare-up of symptoms, and have been symptom free several days per week, and minimally symptomatic for the other days, for several weeks--with the caveat that I experienced an increase of symptoms in the four days preceeding the full moon. I have not had any more black strands come out (having had a total of two episodes where perhaps 10-30 came out, and three episodes where only a few came out).
My friend who is a master herbalist is currently making me a batch of his anti-parasite formula which he says will get rid of everything, even schistosomiasis, the rare incurable liver parasite. In the discussion I had with him, he said that one must take the formula for 45 days, spanning two full moon cycles because parasites tend to replicate greater on the full moon. This got me thinking. In my early days of dealing with Morgellons/mites, I noticed that my cats would have a "bloom" about 1X per month where it felt that if I pet them, I would be suddenly covered in mites--feeling to me that an electron cloud was slowly swarming and making its way up my arms. I have dealt with these blooms in my cats by rubbing castor oil (a light film) in my hands and petting them down with it to suffocate the mites, and then washing my own hands and arms with Face Doctor anti-mite soap afterwards.
My own condition is very much related to cat mites, and I believe that the mites are a separate issue but that have become the carrier of the Morgellons parasite. Keeping both (or many) parasites at bay in both myself and in my cats is the goal. For my cats, I use 1/3 dropper of clustered colloidal silver per day around the full moons (a few days prior and post). I take a tablespoon full myself at the same timing. In between, I make sure we all get probiotics to build up what the silver has killed off in the gut (in the form of fermented foods like kefir, and also the supplement saccharomyces boulardii which is known to perfuse even to the skin in a healthful way). I also use the Peralandra flower essences that help microbial balancing for my cats and for myself (the Lymphatic and the Immune formulas). I have added the Integuementary formula (meaning "skin") for myself as well.
Regarding the full moon cycle, in a sense I feel lucky that I am hypersensitized to the feeling of mite microbes, because I can feel when my carpet is having a bloom also. Usually, I vacuum 1X a week with my super powerful Meile Plus vacuum, and that is sufficient. But during the full moon period, I get blooms of mite in the carpet, and vacuum as needed (usually meaning the usual 1X per week plus another once or twice in that period).
I have determined that I will stay on the Oxysilver during the full moons for a very long time, regardless of my symptoms, to combat any resurgances of parasite.
I also want to talk about Phosfood supplement from Standard Process. I started using it for something else, as it is used to carry calcium out of deposits in the soft tissues to get it into the blood stream. It does so by acidifying the blood. Standard Process seminars usually speak of how people are too alkaline, and that a mild acidity in the gut in necessary for health. I need to learn more about how gut acidity translates to blood pH, but nevertheless, the Phosfood will therefore help with symptoms of calcium-caused bursitis, joint aches and muscle aches among other things. Anyway, I noticed that when I took this liquid tincture, that a certain type of my itching would dissapear within about 10 minutes. This type of itching feels to me (and I know that it is not literally the case) like hundreds of tiny fleas jumping off of me. It feels almost like a clicking, or that my hair follicles are getting flicked and snapped. There is a similar sensation that feels to me like hydrogen peroxide bubbles are popping just under my skin. The Phosfood eliminates these symptoms. You don't want to take too much of it, because if your blood is too acid, it will cause the calcium to come out of your bone (as well as out of the intended soft tissues). I take it as needed, which is well below the "maintainence" dose of 30 drops per day. I probably take 10 drops at a time, once or twice per day, maybe 40% of the days of the month.
Also, just a note about my conjectures on the whole blood calcium issue, as I myself had vitamin D toxicity in my early years of this struggle, where I would get sun poisoning from sun exposure. There is a whole chemical/nutritional cascade about vitamin D, its assimilation through the gut via vitamin K2, then the calcium getting to the soft tissues throught vitamin F (not FDA recognized), and to the bone via K2 and D, and back out to the blood via acidity (in the forms of phosphorus and chlorides). Keeping this balance is useful for my symptoms. K2 can be obtained through chlorophyll, and through the combo of cod liver oil and ghee consumption. All these things are fat soluble. I know that I have had a gallbladder problem for quite some time, and the gallbladder is responsible for digesting fats. Bile is known to bind to toxins and even to parasites, and to carry them out in the feces. I wonder how much this cascade has contributed to my succeptibility to the parasites. I now take bile salts or lipase with meals to digest my fats, my essential fatty acids and my fat soluble vitamins. Garden of Life's "Omegazyme" is a spectrum enzyme supplement that happens to have a lot of lipase. I use Standard Process for my bile salts.
That's all for now. If you have ever left a comment, I am in the process of trying to figure out how to retrieve them. I can't see them from my end, and it is not intuitive how to do so.
Keep holding the light the best you can. My healing tips are merely a vessel to carry more universal spirit your way.
Love, Camile

Energetics and Morgellons Super Therapies

Healing is an energetic process as well as a physical process. I know from my own personal healing experiences, as well as from witnessing those of my patients, that healing can be complete, spontaneous, or at least expedited when the spirit and soul are guiding the process of body healing.

This weekend I dedicated entirely to kicking out any last remains of this Morgellons disease. I utilized all means that I know, inluding:

• Lyme disease protocol
• Clustered silver therapy
• Energetic use of flower essences and essential oils
• Pharmacological use of essential oils and herbs

Lyme Disease Protocol I originally learned this from Barton Publishing. Consult your doctor before going ahead with this treatment because high levels of salt can be bad for some small segments of the population, including those with salt sensitive high blood pressure, or with kidney disease.

This protocol consists of taking 1000mg of salt (I absolutely recommend tablets and not loose salt) and 1000mg vitamin C with 8 oz. water every hour for 12 hours a day, and for 3 days in a row. It is supposed to kill Lyme and I bet it kills a lot of other things too. The first time I did this was a couple of years ago. I thought I would have a healing crisis as many are described to do, and so I planned the weekend to be alone at home. I did get a lot of gas, but that was it. I felt some mild, but significant sensations, but no great releief from my itching. About two weeks later, I did feel significantly better with itching and also less fatigued.

During the treatment, I felt this mild, not unpleasant "peeling" sensation inside my fascia or nerves. I imagined that the osmotic pressure of fluid changes were opening up all the tight and fibrotic areas of my body where nerves meet sheaths, and sheaths meet fascia, etc. So I decided to do the Lyme treatment again this time and combine it with the silver therapy in order to open up my tissue spaces to receive more silver throught my cells.

Clustered Silver Therapy Hearing of a woman's total cure from Morgellons over the internet, I purchased "Oxysilver" brand clustered silver. Apparantly it is a superior silver product because the particles are finer than most of the other products. I took one tablespoon on Saturday and on Sunday morning. I understand if there is a healing crisis (purging of matter from the skin), this occurs in the afternoon of the day it is taken. Indeed, about 5 hours later, I got some pretty intense itching on my thigh. I rubbed the seabuckthorn oil and cocunut oil into my thigh and out came about 5 fibers. Today is Sunday night, and that is the last time I have seen any fibers, and I am feeling pretty durn good. I have not had any of the lesions (mine are like teeny cuts on my wrists and hands) either.

Energetic Use of Flower Essence and Essenitial Oils I cannot overstate the importance of the energy healing. This is not just "woo woo," "feel good" stuff. This is where you clean up and heal your energy matrix. You can think of your energy as a garden lattice that has a certain size and shape just like lattices do. If your lattice is shaped for a harmonious body function, so it will be. If your lattice is weak and missing rungs, or already strung up with a bunch of crap on it, how can the body take shape upon it with ease?

I first starting using the flower essences for Morgellons when my friend who is well versed in the Perelandra Microbial Balancing Program gave me three basic formulations to take morning and night. Apparantly the Perelandra microbial balancing regimen is very very time consuming, and I did not go through that whole system. She gave me basic purifying formulations that can be obtained through Perelandra called "Integumentary"(meaning skin), "Lymphatic," and "Immune System." Upon first taking them morning and night, I could feel a tightening up of my spirit energy, as if getting more toned in a good way.

In the meanwhile, I had obtained the oregano oil from Young Living. In order to become a distributor and get wholesale pricing, I bought the intro package including an array of oils to sample. I'm glad that I did. I'll tell you why in a minute.

So this weekend, I decided to get my heart, spirit and soul as lightened as possible. I pulled out my old flower essences, having had an interest in them in the past. I sat down with my array of essences and oils. I put three drops of each essence on my tounge, one at a time, and waited patiently to see what I felt. Distinctly, I could feel certain subtle and not so subtle reactions with each essence. There were a number where I felt absolutely no reaction, as well. (Those I put aside.) Having forgotten their uses, I read the summary of each one after I felt the reactions. I was encouraged how acurate my feelings were to the expected use. For instance, I had "Crab Apple" which is used for feelings of impurity. That was exactly how I felt upon taking it, vile.

What I found was that the flower essences had a homeopathic reaction in me, meaning, when I took it, I felt the negative manifestation of the emotion. For instance, "Cherry Plum" is about fear of losing control, and when I took it, I felt subtle emotions of desperation and fear. The ones that I do not have an imbalance around (for instance "Vine" which I had bought for a cat with aggressive tendencies and "Mimulus" which I had bought for a cat with shy tendencies) I felt nothing upon taking them.

Now upon smelling the opened bottles of the essential oils on the other hand, I felt the positive manifestation of an emotion or feeling. "Peppermint" made me feel really pure and light in my gut. "Frankinsence" opened up the energy in my head and face, and helped me sense my crown chakra better. Some of them, I felt nothing in particular besides noticing the scent, so I put those aside.

So what I ended up doing over the weekend was that several times a day I sat down and went through my bottles. I must emphasize that I put myself in a place of gratitude to the plant spirits which were helping me to come into better harmony with the universal energy from which they came, and to which I hoped to improve my own relationship. I would use three drops of one essence, and then feel the emotion. Then I would reach for an oil essence that seemed to be the positive opposite of that "negative" emotion. So for instance, "Lymphatic" made me feel imbalanced from right to left, in a kind of sharp way. But "Thieves" oil made a real centerline awareness in me that made me think it helps with kundalini spinal energy. "Sage" made me feel like "woe is me," whereas "Valor" oil blend made me feel vigorously alive.

I continued to do this, holding simultaneously the positive and the negative emotion until the negative emotion dissapeared. Each set took only a minute or two. Eventually, I found that less and less of the essences triggered an emotional response. Then I put them aside.

The technique of holding the positive and negative emotion simultaneously is one you can use forever. Even if it seems unattainable now, please try to practice it. Like any new concept (a dance step, a language, or skill), it can feel impossible until you simply just get the hang of it through continued practice. The easiest ones to use are "love" and "compassion" whenever you feel any of the dense emotions of your own or someone elses. This is how you transform the denser energy. It is like shining a light in the dark, or like putting a solvent into the clog. It is alchemy.

Pharmacological Use of Essential Oils and Herbs I will write more on this topic in a later entry. It includes the hand and foot baths, use of oregano oil, and other oral tinctures and supplements.

NOTE In regard to the hand and foot baths with Braggs vinegar, please do not be alarmed by the fibers of the "mother" fermented product in the bath. These are not Morgellons fibers. Know what your own "matter" looks like, and do not be alarmed that the herb stained "mother" is your own extrusions.

Be well, my friends. I add my intention that the harmonious, self regulating spirit of universal life force enter, effortlessly and substantively into your life and body for healing, to all who ask for it.

Camile

Topical Help

I've got a lot to share for self help. Today I'm going to talk about the topicals. There are two purposes behind your topical treatments: it can be an agent that kills or supresses pathogens; and it can be an agent that acts as a carrier, bringing curatives deep into the tissues. Some of your topicals do both.

SEABUCKTHORN OIL Anti-parasitic, anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-bacterial. In me, topical use of this stuff pulled the fibers right out by the scores. I only had that occur upon first use because it was so effective. Since then only one or two fibers come out, if any. I mix it with coconut oil, as a carrier. It stains yellow colored, so use under sweats or old clothes at night works best. (See first blog entry for dealer.)

COCONUT OIL/FAT Mildly anti-parasitic, bacterial, viral, etc. Also absorbs deeply, carrying other topicals with it.

COLD PRESSED SESAME SEED OIL Ayurvedically recognized as a carrier, and used in that tradition to go as deep as the marrow! Also is mildly anti-parasitic, etc.

SESAME SEED OIL Mild anti-parasitic, etc.

OLIVE OIL Mild anti parasitic, anti-biotic, etc.

CELADRIN CREAM A carrier cream available from Longs and Walgreens that is intended to carry essential fatty acids deep for tissue and joint health. Can use on your scalp with other curative topicals as a carrier.

OREGANO OIL I had another healing crisis/fiber purge with topical use of Young Living brand oregano oil application to soles of feet and palms with sesame oil as my carrier, then soaking in the hand and foot bath I described in the first entry. I found this product effective, and this particular brand I think is important, because a friend told me that she had a giant plantar wart that was like seven warts grown together. She tried everything under the sun with no help. Then she used this particular type of oil a couple times a week for a couple of weeks. The thing slowly went away over about 8 weeks. She said she believed it died in the first couple of applications, but then her body had to absorb it. I do believe this company imparts a superior energetic and purity in their products. I will talk about essential oils and flower essences later when I speak of your energetic healing.

So far, the cures effective for warts seem to be effective for Morgellons also (apple cider vinegar and this oregano oil).

BURTS BEES COCONUT FOOT CREAM Seems to suffocate mites and fungus. Perhaps the coconut aspect kills them too. I use this product two times a day with a q-tip up my nostrils, and also on my calves at times. I can get "flickery" type of sensations up my nostrils which this controls.

COLD PRESSED CASTOR OIL Make sure you get from a health food store because regular drug stores sell a synthetic version. This is a carrier. It also suffocates mites and fungus. I had really good results with topical use to my scalp at night when I had writhing sensations in my scalp which I thought to be either bacteria or fungus. Use use nightly for about a week. I used it for too long and started bruising a lot. It can cause "apoptosis" or cell bursting if overused.

TAMANU OIL I get mine from Health Concerns, and it is mixed with mint oil. This product immediately helped a scar from a staph infection go away, which I got in the water in Costa Rica. I think it killed the very low grade staph and coinfection that seemed to me to progress to parasites, based on the fact that my first couple of foot baths had a couple of teeny worms in it, and that I felt insanely intense wriggling in the scar during the bath. Prior to this experience I thought the scar was healed and done.

NEEM OIL This was one of my first discoveries when I thought I was only battling mites plus coinfection. I get an organic kind from the hydroponic store called Einstein Oil Leaf Shine. It made a huge difference and relief.

I regularly rotate these topicals so that the parasites do not accomodate to any one. I have mentioned certain ones work best as described for certain purposes too.

Do not do anything that seems to hurt you. You do not want to weaken your tissues or your immune system when healing.

Here are some thing that I found do not work:

SULFER BATH Can give immediate relief that does not last for more than a few days. You cannot do continued use of this product without causing harm to your pH blood levels and to your skin. Morgellons requires constant onslaught of treatment until it's gone, so this is not one you can use like that.

PERMETHRYN/SCABIES/LICE TREATMENT Does not go deep enough and is too toxic for continued use. These products are for surface parasites, not even deep enough for follicle mites. In my first battle with the resistant follicle mites (that took two years or so), I learned to not use treatments on my self or my environment that are toxic to ME. My goal now is to unite my energy field and my bodily field into the harmony of those things that are good and natural to a human's strong and resistant energy field. I wish to do nothing that weakens me, materially or mentally.

SCALDING HOT WATER BATHS Harmful and do not work.

EXCESSIVELY CHLORINATED BATHS Harmful and do not work.

PEPPERMINT OIL BATHS Do not work and will freeze your ass.

TEA TREE OIL I have reservations. If it seems to work for you, go a head and use it.

Okay, my friends. There will be more to come. Step onto the universally present web of interconnected love and wellness, where knowledge is instantly transmitted, and help is abundant.

Love, Cam

Introduction and Intent of Blog

My name is Camile. I am a Doctor of Chiropractic who specializes in manual work and nutrition to strengthen organ and glandular systems. I have been struggling with mysterious skin ailments off and on for four years. For two of those years, I was basically symptom-free. I have recently experienced a resurgance of symptoms, and this time it is definitely Morgellons disease due to the back fibers exiting my skin.
The purpose of this blog is not so much to talk about myself and my experiences, but to share what I have learned in home therapy because I am nearly symptom-free again, after this two month bout of intensive home treatment.
I have a special insight into home treatments, because I have been educated as a healthcare practitioner (what with all the physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nutrition I took in chiropractic school). But also, I am also enthusiastic about reading and learning about natural means to initiate change towards healing. Just in my regular chiropractic practice, through natural but specific nutritional protocol, I have assisted organ systems so that a patient's body has stabilized from kidney disease, from high blood sugar levels, from high blood pressure, from uterine fibroids, ovarian cystic conditions and more. So I LOVE to understand the chemistry of what the body needs to work correctly. I have applied my knowledge to my own healing.
Just a bit more about my own condition: I experience what I got as a direct offshoot and coinfection associated with the cat mite (feline demodex mange).

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HEALING

Absolutely Necessary Steps:

• Stop using Advantage and similar products on your pets. I think it may be creating a resistant strain of feline and possible canine demodex mite. Humans also have the demodex (or follicle) mite. The immune system usually keeps it in check. Something like 80-90% of people carry natural numbers of the mite with no problem.
• Get a product called Face Doctor soap from Tao of Herbs 888-828-8288 which is intended to kill the human follicle mite (that is responsible for Rosecea in succeptible people). It kills the cate mite too. Use it for 30 seconds 2X day, even in your hair. It is a natural product made with seabucktorn oil and astragalus.
• If you have scalp symptoms, get Burt's Bees Coconut Foot Cream. Do not get the peppermint kind. Use it liberally on your scalp before going to bed. I also used on by lower limbs and feet. It seems to have the action of suffocating, softening the bodies of, and killing mites and bacteria.
• For the exudate strands, take a hand and foot bath for 20-30 minutes every day with certain ingredients. This is the only way that I knew I had strands because this bath drove out about 50-100 artifacts the first time, with only a few driven out on subsequent times. Now, after about 7 days, I am getting only a couple of strands and a couple of teeny worms each time visibly in my basin. Get a bucket for your hands and a dishpan for your feet and put about 2 1/2 gallons of warm water in one for mixing (then separate into your two baths). Do not make it too hot because you want to keep the vinegar cultures alive. Add in 2 cups Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar "with the mother" (shake bottle prior to pouring). Now, I rotate between these different additional herbals which are antiviral and pro-circulatory in nature. I use at least two herbs at once, or sometimes I put in a portion of all herbs mentioned to get varying effects. The herbs also help neutralize the cumalative effect of the acid in the vinegar, being alkaloids/basic in nature. Use Standard ProcessMedi Herb (they are the strongest and most energetically potent tinctures I have found in my experinece). You must buy through a practioner. Go to StandardProcess. com and search for a practitioner in your area. Hopefully they will sell direct without making you come for an appointment. If you have trouble, you can call my cell phone and I'll sell you some, but please do so only if you have trouble elsewhere, as I'm not really set up for a lot of calls for this 831-246-2514. The products are: tinctures of Prickly Ash, Dandelion Root, Gymnema, and St. John's Wort. I use about, gosh, probably 3 tablespoons of each. Then soak. I put on the Burt's Bees Foot Cream after, and go to bed. Do not save this water for re-use. My impression is that the concoction drives things out, but may not actually kill them. I had the weird coincidence of having a plugged-up sink exactly when I started this method. Some tiny larvae were floating in my sink basin. I thought the quickest way to kill them until I could get to the task of unplugging my sink would be to pur a bunch of rubbing alcohol in the basin. I watched as the larvae all swam to the side and crawled up the edge. It sure made me think.
• Chelate for heavy metal toxiciy. Whether you know you have it or not, I know that personally, it has helped me with one whole classification of itching. Take a heavy metal test if you want to be sure, although I find some false negatives in my practice depending on whether it is hair, urine or blood sampled. Use Standard Process Min Tran (1 per hour, or minimum of 6/day spread out), with 4 cracked chlorella tabs (any brand) every hour or minimum of 6X/day. You must use "cracked chlorella" for chelating, not other blue green algaes. Take with water, alone OR with food. Oh, P.S., if you know you have mercury toxicity, do not take probiotics until you are cleared as they will make you worse. Probiotics convert mercury into methyl mercury which is far more toxic.
• Get a food allergy blood test. Make absolutely sure your lab reports IGg and IGe values separately. If they combine them, you will get false negatives. One is short term allergic response and one is long term (meaning you gt your reaction up to two weeks after you consume the food). You want to know each response individually. Personally, my first bout with what I considered to be a resistant mite, I found I had many things all combining into an immune itching problem, including food allergy, and heavy metal toxicity.
• Eliminate sugars and grains. Yes, I mean it. Although I still struggle with it, I think this is one of the best things you can do to: stabilize your hormones, and decrease your inflammation responses. Also those available sugars in your body fluids harbor candida and who knows what else. One of my categories of itching in my first round, I eventually found to be a whole body histamine response from low progesterone. I used the teeniest amount of over the counter bioidentical progesterone cream that I could to manage this type if itching, and it was a godsend. But once I stopped the sugar and grains, I found I no longer needed the cream. And like clockwork, when I go off my diet, that type of itching returns and I also look like hell when I wake up in the mornings. If you have trouble getting off sugar, or are a sugar addict, here is the cure: take 3 tabs minimum of Standard Process Lactic Acid Yeast, and 3 pills minimum Garden of Life Primal Defense probiotic (unless you have mercury toxicity). Each time you cheat, take an extra tab of LA Yeast with your sweet treat. If you are very ill, start out with only 1/2 or 1/4 pill Primal defense per day so as to avoid a healing crisis. This will not stop the sugar cravings at this small amount, but work up to it. If you get no stoppage of sugar craving with 3 each per day (rare) then take more. No harm in taking up to 12/day, athough I've never seen anyone need that much.

I must stop for the day. My next entry with be about other useful treatments you should know about, including flower essence energetics (which helps with not only health, but good strong positive health vibration), as well as anti-viral herbal therapy you can use a a basic health protocol. Sufferers, I love you. Do not let this get you down. The two years I initially struggled with this ailment were the darkest years of my life. My livelihood and social world were at the brink of disater. I thought frequently about how I woul kill my little cats and myself in a way that would cause the least disturbance to my friends and family. This round, I have learned a lot I can apply, and I am just not going to let this harm my spirit. I still do not feel cured again, and life as I know it is still at risk. But I will find a way in the tributaries of possibility that are good and true and filled with wellbeing. My wish for you is the same. Learn how to hold a negative feeling (like despair, abandonement...) along with, and at the same time as a positive emotion (such as hope, love, compassion for self). I have practiced this technique for some years, and it is a wonderful method of fully feeling your darkness in a way where you can express and honor it without your darkness lodging into your physical or energetic being. Get well soon!

Cam