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Reply to Dr. Alan Rockoff's comment on bugs

Reply to Dr. Alan Rockoff's comment on bugs

I am so tired of doctors telling people that their bugs symptom are delusional.  When a person has the evidence on tier skin and samples found on the skin saved, why do the doctors not take notice?  I also have had the same problem mentioned by the person writing on about the bugs on her mom.  I have tried many treatments.  I believe they are fleas and that they are indeed laying eggs on my body.  I had scabies first.  Then it seems that I just became a host for a flea problem we got.  We treated the cat but the fleas too to me.  Same as the other woman, they do not affect my husband as much as me.  Maybe some people are more sensitive to the bites.  When I have the poison on (we have done 6 treatments of Permethrin and now I have been given crotamiton), they do not attack.  As soon as it goes away, towards the end of the 24 hours, they are back biting.  I have seen eggs on my hairs.  I have become the host and need to figure out the cycle of the egg laying so that I can get rid of it once and for all.  Why do the doctors, even dermatologists, not even look at the samples you bring in?  Even a soldier studies his enemy's habits, etc. in order to know best how to counterattack!  Why would we not be able to fight this better if someone took enough interest to examine the specimens and see what is attacking, instead of automatically assuming that it is delusional.  How many people really go back and forth to the doctor for delusional problems?  I am sure there are a certain amount of people out there that are on meth or other drugs or something that causes them such "delusions."  But the problem here is that doctors do not take their patients seriously from the get go.  They assume way too much!  Look at the skin!  I can see the bugs, all the stages.  Why can't they see them?  They are not microscopic.  But they refuse to even look.  They have a preconceived idea from the start.  That poor worman is suffering and no one is helping her, just like me.  I have had to do all my own research and the only reason I go to the doctor is because I have to get relief from the symptoms.  But unforutunately, all the treatment have not yet helped.  We are working diligently on our house to rid it of any invasion.  But because I have become the host, I am not easily getting rid of it.  Again I say doctors, PLEASE look at the skin, examine the specimens, believe the patient first before assuming that she is just making it up.  Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist!  You can often see it if you just look!!  A young man killed himself a few years back because he had something on him and the doctors just called it delusional.  I hold them responsible for not believing him in the first place.  This is a living nightmare that those of us who are experiencing it are going through and the second worst part about it is that the medical "professionals" do nothing.  They hand out the poison just to get you to go away.  That gives some relief.  But no one is willing to look closer and see that the person that usually does not need to go to the doctor, the person that is a fine upstanding person in the community and usually busy in life trying to help other people, is now immobilized because she cannot get any help and be able to move on with her life.  Here's my question:  What kind of doctor out there knows about bugs and is willing to investigate compassionately?
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