As my theory goes from one to another, this is where I stand. I agree that is some gas, but those Morg particles seem to be the hair of demodex mites. I think Morgellons is a form of demodex infestation and it attacks the nose and other easy paths to mucus. This is my ritual, seems to reduce PATM. Use Head and Shoulders to clear the fibers, it does, but does not kill the infection. I have lint rolled my body head to toes till there are no particles on the lint roll. Then I apply hair spray to my head and my whole body, yes, whole body, including groin area. Hair with alot of spray. Then hair spiking glue inside nose, that seems to be a big source. This seems to reduce the effect, but not eliminate. The gas I think is the byproduct of the infection and may either be the gas produced by the mites, or our own body's way of trying to repel it. We all have the identical situations, so this is not some gray area thing, its exact, its one thing, we have and I think Morg people may not have noticed as to notice this but they may have diff levels of PATM. This is a mite. The fibers you can see if you back-light with your cell or any light or the sun and a window or in your car when the sun is hitting other parts, those fibers come from our bod and fly away, they are magnetically charged and that is how they move around. I think this is a demodex mite infection. I think Morg is a demodex mite infection.
And also remember that when people talk about percentage of their patm symptoms, it’s really a subjective measurement. My 70% patm free could be the same as anyone with 30% or a person with 99% percent. It’s all a subjective measurement of each one of us according to his own experience. I sit in labs with students and lecturers for hours so I believe many who claim to have 90% patm free would change their minds after a few hours in close encounters with other students on an enclosed space for hours at a time. Most of us test patm symptoms by going into a restaurant or bus and sit there for a few minutes or half an hour. I test mine by sitting in a lab with students face-to-face and discus materials for hours each day. So our measurement is not always the same therefore the percentage claim is not always trusted.
“Maybe eating a vegetarian diet would actually cure us.”
no it doesn’t, but it lowers patm. I’ve been on a vegen diet for years now and patm hasn’t disappeared. It has remained pretty much moderately low for years and it doesn’t get any better than that. I don’t know anyone in this patm community who’s ever said to have 100% patm free or cured completely from going on a vegetarian or vegan diet… you can call it a control mechanism if you must but it’s not a cure. If it was a cure, wouldn’t all patmers on the strict diet be cured by now?
@jn4357, great ideas. We had a long discussion about that on private message. I did suggest to him to go on a junk diet prior to taking samples but perhaps staying on a normal diet is one way as you say. I think he’d choose to go on just a normal diet as it’s easier for him. It turns out he’s a family man with a successful career and kids probably our age in college. He’s got other priorities so couldn’t be bothered with things that many of the single guys would do. Hope you don’t mind me just revealing this part ray!
I really hope he can convince the researchers to do this test. If it does happen, I’m thinking about other things that could go wrong. For example mass/gas spectrometers looks at different ranges of molecular species. For example, what if they choose to only concentrate on just a range of large organic molecules but the source molecule is instead a small molecule like CO? If they don’t test for those ranges, then we wouldn’t know. Again I’m just hoping for the best as this all depends on what the researchers do and what we tell them to test for. Intriguingly, I’m have the suspicion that it will be within the Trimethylamine (N(CH3)3 ) molecular size range.
@ray2502, please collect all the information as much as possible. If he has notes, books, videos etc. that will help us understand more about the procedures then please let me know. I’m thinking if you fail, I’ll have a look if I can try once again to approach and convince researchers at our university. I tried approaching one before and he was so arrogant so I changed the subject altogether.
I myself had my tonsils removed which helped some.Allergy shots helped a lot. I also noticed eating salads helps. Maybe eating a vegetarian diet would actually cure us. I also stated taking two gas pills a day especially at night. Weird, but it works.
I was just recently diagnosed with alternating IBS. I also had an EGD performed and was diagnosed with mild inflammation due to acid reflux. Not anything else.
To add, you should first complete the treatment your doctor prescribed and if it does not work then try GCMS. Otherwise the results for both will be all messed up.