Mysterious bug under my skin, crawling on my scalp

[HBdadon]

This is my first post, I've been reading this forum for about a month now, reading about evetything from how to cure scabies to mites.

I'm 27 years old, live in Dallas Texas and here is my story...

First, we've always had a fly problem at every house we go to. You know, the little fruit fly looking things. However, we're not big fruit eaters and don't have any out. They seem to love the trash and the sink (different fly?).

Up to 6 months ago I felt like a bug was crawling on me when I sat on my couch and bed (different apartment), our first assumption was bed bugs and we treated the house (using bombs) for these, the crawling feeling slowed but never fully stopped.

We recently moved (2 months ago) and I felt the same thing on the couch and bed, even worse actually. So much so that we had to throw the couch out. The couch had a mattress in it, it ended up staying out back for a little while until one day I looked out there and it had little black bugs crawling all over it. During this time it seemed I ws being attacked at night by whatever this is, constant crawling all over my head. I usually stay up late to work (upwards of 5AM sometimes) and the entire time this crawling is going on. When I get in the bed it's even worse.

Now here we are at present day. Three days ago I started feeling like whatever this was is now in my skin (I'm certain of it), It's under the skin on my face, my scalp, my back, my toes, and my feet. I can feel it crawling in and out of my anus at times also.

Went to the dermatoligist today and of couse he says it's my imagination, some people get it. He's subscribed me some DEXEPIN for depression. :(  Funny thing is I'm not depressed, my life was quite good until this bug showed up.

I can feel them crawling under my skin, they hang out in my ear (not sure if under the skin or just in the canal) all day, it's gross. No one in the house (my wife and 3 kids) can feel them. My wife has bites all up and down her legs and even a protruded ring looking this on her forearm.

As you might have imagined I'm loosing my mind and life, nothing is the same. And now that the doctor says it's my imagination I cant even get my mom or wide (even though she has a lot of bites) to believe what I'm feeling is real. This makes everything 99.9% harder.

At first I thought it was bird mites (lots of trees around our apartment), then I thought scabies (becuase I can see tracks under my skin), and now I'm thinking it's some kind of fly. There are flys everwhere in this apartment. The disposal was broken when we moved in and it had  flies coming out, they are still around even today (and it's broken again). The bathroom has the flies, in fact, there are several dead in the tub.

I spray the tub down with bleach/water after getting out and noticed when I spray the faucet part some of it turns black (black mold?).

Could this be a bot fly? What do I need to do to get rid of it. Now that the dermatologist was no hope (second doc I've seen, first gave me Pemethrin which did not work) I was thinking of ordering some Stromectol / Ivermectin and Green Kleen Green online.

Recently I had jock itch for the first time in my life, had been taking Gris Peg (Griseofulvin) when this all started to intensify. Please if anyone has been through anything like this offer your sound advice.

[crash222]

They are in mine middle ears when I change mine body temp they become more active and this is where the brain fog come in. I am putting saltwater in the ears to force them out. The salt I hope killing what ever they living off of. They pour our of mine ears. This is the link that I am base everthing on.

http://www.ajtmh.org/content/76/5/967.full.pdf

[lia0529]

How I'm getting rid of this:

After the diagnosis was confirmed I was put on RX lotramin for 2 weeks and given a cream i can not think of the name of.  Nobody laugh but I did some really interesting things when I first figured this out.  I washed my whole body with get this "jock itch shower gell...lol!  it worked.  my hair I put a tiny amount of barbiside in.  my house I cleaned with barbicide and also disinfected everything with a mixture of water/barb/tea tree oil and vinigar.  works liek magic.  no more fibers, no more itching at night no more problems.  I eat a lot of fruit and veggies, all organic and out of aggravation and seeing that when I was 20 i was a hair colorist, I bleached my scalp and hair then seeing i was over being blonde I just re colored it with semi to my natural.  But now i get to look forward to about 15,000 in scar revision.  Thanx DOC :-/

[lia0529]

Follow up-

Also as I didn't go into total detail before about what I've come to know.  I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with ADHD, but studies are now showing that it is linked to something in an individuals ear.  I have had fierce problems with my left ear and my favorite is that most medical professions have stated there "a minor infection".  Well i've had this infection for about 6 years now?!  REALLY???!!!  And I have ALWAYS had problems with my ears.  Ironic factors is this is the reasoning behind my panic attacks I was having when all of this started happening.  Apparently there is either an under or over developed part of my ear drum/canal that amplifies background sound.  Literally when I leave a room and close a door and if the television happens to be on, I can hear the extras over the main plot line.  I call it my super power...LOL!    So also agree on the fact that mites and parasites weakening my inner immune system is yet another mistake that was made in my "treatment"  symptoms:

Weigth lose
high creatine levels
salt like particles coming out of skin(lipids)
pain in lower back(kidneys)
itching
rash
fatigue
bad blood results
good blood results
hair doing weird things
little fibers and hairs everywhere
flashes of light(my central nervous system is shot b/c of this so that's the reasoning)
vision loss/blurred literally overnight
difficulty swallowing
anxiety(CNS)
panic attacks(CNS)
insomnia
depression(mostly b/c of what my skin looks like)
malnutrition(my body was not absorbing ANY nutrients)
Vitamin b/a/d/e deficiency
kidney malfunction
heart mur mur
headaches(sometimes lasting 2-3 days)
body ache(constant)

[lia0529]

I have a really bad experience that I have been going through for the past 2 years.  I was a property manager of a mix finance development in Chicago.  Well from my experience there I clearly lead a very sheltered life b/c I couldn't believe some of the things peoples houses became infested with.  Well from being in the office of the person that I ended up talking over for I noticed at nights when I would do my paperwork there I felt a crawling sensation across my feet and every time I freaked out and jumped there was never ANYTHING there.  A few weeks later I noticed a rash on my arm and just discarded the reaction as maybe me wearing a piece of jewelry I was allergic to so I covered it and put cortizone 10 on it.  it seemed to sort of go away but then I realized that even before that the same thing was on my ankle.  Then the weightlose started.  I probably lost 30 pounds in 2 months.  My dad had recently had a heart attack and my boyfriend at the time was a big a-hole and found out he was a cheating loser....lol  So again I just thought my health was deteriorating b/c of stress.  then the rash and itching started.  I basically became freaked out that maybe my boyfriend gave me something.  so i went and got tested for everything!  and i mean everything.  the doctors office said i would be contacted with results if they were bad.  well i never heard anything nor got a letter from them.  6 months passed and the rash was out of control and I was probably about 82 pounds.  I'm only 5'2 so it's not as bad as some are probably thinking.  but i still looked god awful.  the sad part is I have ALWAYS taken pride in my appearance.  I was 25 when this all started happening and actually this weekend I'll be 27 so when I say it has been hell it really has been for the past 2 years.  But when I went back to the doctor 6 months later.  I was informed that my HIV test came back as a false positive.  well i didn't know what that meant and after the lightheadedness faded i noticed my doctor seemed very nervous.  He knew he messed up especially with my symptoms and how bad they suddenly got.  He ordered another HIV test and again another false positive.  I was then tested for every disease he could think of.  lupus, ms, diabet, cancer, blood counts and nothing.  at this point i pretty much hated him and everything he stood for.  my arms now have scars from these lessions and he then reffered me to a derm that tried to tell me I was OCD.  he grabbed my arm and I will never forget this for the rest of my life says "sweetie you have to stop hurting yourself".   Well I lost it.  I called him an ignorant *******.  I know it wasn't the nicest thing but I was furious.  I told him look "sir"  I'm not an idiot.  Your hospital CLEARLY messed up and I will not deal with you writing me off as a looney toon b/c you have an appointment waiting in your office.  I'm not a god damn number and I was tired of being treated like one.  I also informed that that due to my ADHD and my RX i had to see a psychiatrist once a month.  Something that threw him for a loop b/c it's not out of that hospital so he really had no way of knowing that :-)  And also if I was there because I was concerned about the scars wouldn't it be assumed that I was selfish and a little too into myself if anything.  just saying ;)    There are a ton more instances that I don;t want to bore you with.  Basically I had seen 11 specialists and every single one of them diagnosed me with a different skin disorder.  I never mentioned my previous visits at any other offices.  I didn;t want to appear as a person who was diagnosing myself either so i just let them do there thing.  Well they were ALL wrong but after quiting my job I decided that I was tired of doctors suppressing my symptoms.  So I've made it my new calling to figure out what the H this is.  well its 2 years and I'm pretty positive it's ring worm.  Yep!  RINGWORM.  also a combination of mold from the shotty developement, but after thinking back, the employees son that I took over for had ringworm on his arm.  she had them in the office constantly so i'm assuming this is how it all came to be. It's our own immune system that is actually attacking our skin.  It gets in our bloodstream weakens us and will cause a downward spiral in our health and every person although most symptoms are similar, have other issues that the next does not.   I'm going to give a list of my symptoms and then I'm going to give you al that I've learned to help control it, b/c honestly i don't think i'll ever be 100% ever again.  It makes me sad because it could have all been prevented but basically I'm sharing my story b/c I don't think it's fair and would never want anyone else to go through something like this.  Also it was confirmed by the dermatologist when I literally forced him to do a graph on my scalp that it is a fingus/bacteria that is almost identical to ringworm.  Side note this is also what psoriasis, eczema, and acne is. This is my thesis for my dual masters actually.  I'm going to write another thread seeing how long this one has become.  stand by :-)

[LGAMMA]

I have 2 Airwick sets. One with this new sensor movement in the living room, which is the biggers room, and one simple plug in Airwick inside my tiny living room(that is smaller that 10X10)
I have a tiny AC in my bedroom, and a bigger AC in the living room.  Its getting ti hot and humid here in P.R, So maybe since Saturday ive been using AC when im in the house.  Also saturday i got the Airwicks.  This combination seems to calm the situation a little.
with this $hit ive been up all night.  All windows closed, and doors.
If I go out late @night to smoke a cig in my porch, UFFFF they get me hard.  U feel the difference when the temperature changes... Also i go in again, and feel the light buzzing...

I got yesterday a microscope and will post future stuff.

Thats allways, if this Forum lets me put them.  So far no prob.  
I put same fotos in this blog ( http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic71496.html ) and they banned me, i wounder why.... 2 hardcore for reality i think.
I have videos, does the administrator let me put them ill upload them soon.

crash222 :  about peroxide on ears, ooops allready did...
@least dont know why AC+AIRWICK = better sleep

[LGAMMA]

These are the black dots i see everywere, in the bathroom floor, in the computer area...
In the room i sleep.  These are fresh from right now, brushing my head/face with my hand, and they fall in the sink, faucet?? were u brush your teeth...  

pic taken from my $hity blackberry camera, through a celestron digital microscope 44320

http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd5/lobogamma/?action=view&current=IMG00263-20110510-2309.jpg

http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd5/lobogamma/?action=view&current=IMG00266-20110510-2323.jpg

http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd5/lobogamma/?action=view&current=IMG00268-20110510-2347.jpg

just getting to know the mic.  Need to practice more on focus, ilumination for the details to appreciate.  Will continue posting all the tons of stuff i have found during this nightmare.

to crash222

Air Wick seems to work somehow...
Its almost summer here, i turn the ac, closed all windows, and Airwick seem to calm the hurricane... I can still feel them, but very VERY light!!  I cant even see them anymore...
just a few once in a while.  ive been with this like 4 days... looking good.
Also i change my whole diet.
started wormwoodcombination + neem today as supplements.
Keep u posted on results...
sorry for my spelling...