Guest guest Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 Yes,but it really worked for me...and I had all symptoms of morg...I still have some symptoms but no where near as many....From: "Goldstein@..." <Goldstein@...>bird mites Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 8:19:27 AMSubject: Re: Re: What are the black specks??????????? Isn't Doxy for Lyme? That's what I thought it was for. My doctor prescribed two other antibiotics for the Lyme, but she said alternatively we could switch over to Doxy. L. Re: What are the black specks??????????? My cousin said doxy is a Trish springsted recomendation he siad that explains why some here rite good reviews for it. Is this true? I think this makes sense theres lots of antiboitics but the reviews here awlays talk about doxy. I was thiniking maybe it would be nice to talk about other drugs too not just ones Trish likes. I am kind of afraid of afraid her now mostly stuff she recomends, does anyone know of other drugs other than doxy that could help with bird mites? Thanks very much, > > >> > > Things have been fairly quiet for the last few days here - thank goodness. I was covered in 50 or so bites last week so I was so grateful for the lack of activity. I woke up this morning and my sheets were covered with black specks near my head - same on my husbands side of the bed. This tells me my scalp is going to explode again. Not looking forward to that. However, what are these specks? They don't look like much under the scope - except that they are shaped nearly the same. I have seen plenty of real bugs under my scope so I do know what to look for. These specks are fairly large - larger than a mite....almost like small black seeds and they feel hard/solid....any ideas? Just want to learn more about what we are dealing with. I feel defeated again.> > >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 My significant other would never believe either and most just thought I was nuts except for a couple Doctors...finally My Bro believed me and I showed him some bugs...My sympathy it is really hard so much denialFrom: Zoe <zoe_z3@...>bird mites Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 7:45:07 PMSubject: Re: What are the black specks??????????? I can so relate to what you and your husband are going through. It would be such a relief if we were simply delusional and could just visit a a shrink to get better. Let me know if the doxycycline helps you. We it is 2 times per day for 1 month and it didn't help. I keep wondering if it would have helped at a higher dose like 3 times per day, as it did with Rose. z3 > > > > Things have been fairly quiet for the last few days here - thank goodness. I was covered in 50 or so bites last week so I was so grateful for the lack of activity. I woke up this morning and my sheets were covered with black specks near my head - same on my husbands side of the bed. This tells me my scalp is going to explode again. Not looking forward to that. However, what are these specks? They don't look like much under the scope - except that they are shaped nearly the same. I have seen plenty of real bugs under my scope so I do know what to look for. These specks are fairly large - larger than a mite....almost like small black seeds and they feel hard/solid....any ideas? Just want to learn more about what we are dealing with. I feel defeated again. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 Hey - Doxy is for Lyme's, I believe...my dr. did some blood work and gave it to me. I have not had the extensive lyme's testing done as of yet but plan to do it - I am sure I have it, along with morgellons (sadly enough)....but hopefully because of this site I have started to address things early enough that maybe I can get a leg up on getting better. I am going to try the doxy 3x's a day...I don't think it can hurt. > > > > > > > > Things have been fairly quiet for the last few days here - thank goodness. I was covered in 50 or so bites last week so I was so grateful for the lack of activity. I woke up this morning and my sheets were covered with black specks near my head - same on my husbands side of the bed. This tells me my scalp is going to explode again. Not looking forward to that. However, what are these specks? They don't look like much under the scope - except that they are shaped nearly the same. I have seen plenty of real bugs under my scope so I do know what to look for. These specks are fairly large - larger than a mite....almost like small black seeds and they feel hard/solid....any ideas? Just want to learn more about what we are dealing with. I feel defeated again. > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 try it but don't eat dairy products or take minerals and vites within 2 hours before and after....talk to a pharmacist dairy can make it not work butter prob ok talk to a couple of pharms so You get enuf infoFrom: southernbuggirl <jpingolt@...>bird mites Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 1:23:18 PMSubject: Re: What are the black specks??????????? Hey - Doxy is for Lyme's, I believe...my dr. did some blood work and gave it to me. I have not had the extensive lyme's testing done as of yet but plan to do it - I am sure I have it, along with morgellons (sadly enough)....but hopefully because of this site I have started to address things early enough that maybe I can get a leg up on getting better. I am going to try the doxy 3x's a day...I don't think it can hurt. > > > > > > > > Things have been fairly quiet for the last few days here - thank goodness. I was covered in 50 or so bites last week so I was so grateful for the lack of activity. I woke up this morning and my sheets were covered with black specks near my head - same on my husbands side of the bed. This tells me my scalp is going to explode again. Not looking forward to that. However, what are these specks? They don't look like much under the scope - except that they are shaped nearly the same. I have seen plenty of real bugs under my scope so I do know what to look for. These specks are fairly large - larger than a mite....almost like small black seeds and they feel hard/solid....any ideas? Just want to learn more about what we are dealing with. I feel defeated again. > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 This rings true to me I have had the soft and hard specs the hard ones are weird bothered me but diid go away I really think I Had Lyme otherwise why would I have responded so well to the doxy but Bobby I think the combo You mentioned sounds good. Thank You RFrom: bobbyboyd99 <bobbyboyd99@...>bird mites Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 4:59:42 AMSubject: Re: What are the black specks??????????? , I went to see a caribbean island Dr who treats parasite issues every day. He said something very similiar. Doxy 100 mg, 3 times daily for 30 days, at the same time Vermox two times daily for 10 days, and to use the perm cream every three or four days. I stupidly did not use the perm cream like you are suggesting is important. He also said what I have sounds very much like advanced Lyme, even though I always test negative..I've read some say the black specs that come out of your skin are some type of mold, mine were soft, never hard. My Derm could not ID mine that I took from the tub other than organic matter. Bobby > > > > > My sister called a homeopathic healer in Florida who is said to have cured several Morgellans patients. Don't have her name yet. She described what we had and the lady told her she cured a woman with the same thing. She said on must take permethrin cream and a deworming pill at the same time for it to work. If you just do the permethrin, the worms crawl into the body. If you just do the deworming pill, they crawl out on the skin. And she said to take a Qtip and put some of the cream in the ears. She said they are not in the environment or clothing. They only bite because of the friction they feel. It causes them to stir and react. > > I have the cream and pill but won't take them until tomorrow as I have an appointment with a dermotologist. I want him/her to scrape my skin and identify the worms. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 I think you were same one who attackted me last time. Please leave me alone your very, very mean to me. I have a rite to talk about stuff too. I think its nuts you get anoyyed so easy, just calm down and talk about other topix if this one botherrs you so much. > > > > > > > > > > Things have been fairly quiet for the last few days here - thank goodness. I was covered in 50 or so bites last week so I was so grateful for the lack of activity. I woke up this morning and my sheets were covered with black specks near my head - same on my husbands side of the bed. This tells me my scalp is going to explode again. Not looking forward to that. However, what are these specks? They don't look like much under the scope - except that they are shaped nearly the same. I have seen plenty of real bugs under my scope so I do know what to look for. These specks are fairly large - larger than a mite....almost like small black seeds and they feel hard/solid....any ideas? Just want to learn more about what we are dealing with. I feel defeated again. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 Hi SB6IRL My Dad taught when I was 7 years old not to touch dead birds because the mites from the animal might get on me & they are hard to get rid of, sometime resulthing in fumafation of the whole house & if that did work possible destruction of the whole house. Ask any chicken farmer , there is your expert. I asked one he said white wash the whole chicken coup with lime water , it is highly caustic. & if that dosent kill them burn the coup . Here is a great post from a farmer : Mites and farmer tricks link bird mites/message/10634 I don't know where you people are from, whether it be city, or too far north to know this, but " mites " are nothing new, and there is nothing " foreign about them. I was raised, and still live in Louisiana, which is called, " semi-tropical. " I was raised on a farm/ranch. There are so many different types of mites, that bite, that I will not begin to try to list many; I will give a few examples. Warm blooded animals get lice; plants get lice; they are not the same type of lice. the " lice " that infest your turnip green patch, will not bite you because it suddenly " got warmer " in the US. The mites and lice that infest your chicken house, will not be satisfied with sucking on turnip greens; but they will crawl all over a human and give you the " itch " for many days after you have gotten rid of the mites. There are " redbugs, " picked up from walking through grass, brush, or sometimes dirt. They will burrow under your skin and make you want to take a wire brush and shed your won hide off. There are seed ticks that will cover you from brushing against the wrong tree limb, or infest your living room when you buy that " real " tree at Christmas. The " Mange " in dogs, or as we humans dislike having to call it, " Scabies, " that will infest you and all your pets. There are hog lice, chiken mites, Sarcopic mange, ring worm, ( & scores of other funguses from cattle and horses and dogs), that humans can get. There is the " creeping crud, " a fungus, that sometimes does not show to the naked eye for months, but will make you claw until you bleed, usually starting at the ankles and working up; it lives in the soil. While we back woods, country people may call all these vermin and varmints funny names, and we may seem stupid to some, we know these critters you are talking about; they were here in the US long before you went overseas. It is just as possible that you caught it from your Georgia tent mate when he returned from leave, as it is that you caught it in Iraq, or some other " hot " place. We have put a couple of cap fulls of pine oil or bleach in our bath water for years; we have cleaned our houses with pine oil for hundreds of years. We have dabbed pine oil, turpintine, and sometimes if desperate enough, coal oil, on redbugs, (and various other critters that attached themselves to us), to kill them for hundreds of years. We have coated ourselves in various kinds of fats, mud, and paste to keep them off, and to kill them when they decided to live on us anyway. We have bathed in baking soda, salt and epsoms salt to keep from itching; smeared paste from mustard, baking soda and tobacco to help. We have taken the " skin " from egg shells and pit on bad bites, to draw the " itch " out. We have chewed on the sulphur ends of hard matches, and made a paste out of " flowers of sulfur; " which bugs hate the smell of, and it keeps the bites from getting infected. One of the bad things about itchy bites, it all that scratching and hot, blooding flesh, attracts even more critters. As for borax; you can buy " 20 Mule Team " borax powder; it's been around longer than any of us. We wash with it, neutralize orors with it, remove stains with it, etc. Most of all, down here, we have been rubbing it on our meat in our smoke houses for ages; flies won't even light on it. we just wash it off when we take it out to eat. I heard in the eighties, that they were " blowing " recycled, chipped up, news papers into the walls of old historical homes to insulate them. Guess what they were soaking the news paper in prior to drying and chopping it up? That's right...Borax. Not only does it kill bugs, repel bugs, repel rodents and prevent them from chewing and nesting in the paper insulation, but it makes the paper fire retardent. You can make your on roach and ant bait with it by mixing it with flour and sugar, or just corn syrup and Borax. You can use it like carpet fresh, and you can wash your walls and floors and counters with it; use it as a paste for scrubbing; just don't rinse it too well, and you will see a lessening of itchy critters. And for people that want their clothes clean, but do not like fragrance fumes, etc., it's the best for your laundry. If the varmints are eating your ankles up, mix some borax with your lotion or vaseline; it will repel them and has antibiotic properties THE END Summary of a poster : Borax$3.99 Mustard 2.00 skin of egg $1.99 haven't tried that one yet coaltar shampoo 5.99 pinesol $4.00 bleach .69 sulphur $12.00 www.Americarx.com baking soda $1.00 tobacco $4.00 fats .01 off a steak mud $.00 and make s paste Pretty cheap ! And they work , it a bug kill it it will die On Mon Nov 29th, 2010 5:03 PM EST southernbuggirl wrote: >Thanks to all for your theories....my husband spoke to a well known entemologist today - I am disheartened....he basically told him it would be impossible for us to still have mites and that people who move, throw out their furniture & clothing and/or obsessively clean are delusional. You all know the story. I hate that my dear husband cannot fathom that we still may have mites and we also have morgellons. He just can't go there. Even with real symptoms, even with positive id's - he just can't bring himself to face the reality of the situation. Which leaves just me to deal with this and our kids. I wish he would quit searching for the silver bullets and so called experts. Any advice on how to get him to accept that this is our plight and to pitch in to help me fight the good fight? > > >> >> Things have been fairly quiet for the last few days here - thank goodness. I was covered in 50 or so bites last week so I was so grateful for the lack of activity. I woke up this morning and my sheets were covered with black specks near my head - same on my husbands side of the bed. This tells me my scalp is going to explode again. Not looking forward to that. However, what are these specks? They don't look like much under the scope - except that they are shaped nearly the same. I have seen plenty of real bugs under my scope so I do know what to look for. These specks are fairly large - larger than a mite....almost like small black seeds and they feel hard/solid....any ideas? Just want to learn more about what we are dealing with. I feel defeated again. >> > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 You know Rose Dear if you and your buddies cry wolf enough times sooner or later you lose credibility. I don't see how anything positive can result from all these juvenile threats of leaving the board. If you wanna leave, just leave and spare the rest of us the self-absorbed mellow dramatics. Harrington > > > > > > > > > > Things have been fairly quiet for the last few days here - thank > >goodness. I was covered in 50 or so bites last week so I was so grateful for > >the lack of activity. I woke up this morning and my sheets were covered with > >black specks near my head - same on my husbands side of the bed. This tells me > >my scalp is going to explode again. Not looking forward to that. However, what > >are these specks? They don't look like much under the scope - except that they > >are shaped nearly the same. I have seen plenty of real bugs under my scope so I > >do know what to look for. These specks are fairly large - larger than a > >mite....almost like small black seeds and they feel hard/solid....any ideas? > >Just want to learn more about what we are dealing with. I feel defeated again. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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