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invisible biting bugs

Last summer I seemed to have become sensitive to bites to microscopic critters, apparently.  I used to leave the windows open during the day and night.  At first the bites began sporadically in the evenings during dusk.  They would bite my toes and between my fingers.  As time passed the bites increased even during the day. A couple months later I awoke in the middle of the night with a swarm I couldnt see on my scalp and all over. The itch was excrutiating and when I scratched my head they got under my fingernails.  My fingers looked like sausages from all the bites and I took a look in the mirror and my eyes and lips were horribly swollen with red splotches on my face.  I couldnt see any of these biters, even with that many.  The itch lasts several minutes and the swelling was gone by morning when they departed.  I've had to close up my home to keep them out after spraying bug spray and washing the curtains.  I'd open the curtans and they would bite my fingers.  They love fingeres and toes mostly.  It stopped during late winter but is starting again with warmer weather.  Any help identifying? also worse during cloudy weather and at night


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I have been dealing with these critters for over a year. My husband thought I was nuts when I told him about them because he says he doesn't itch but I see him when he's asleep scratching himself so I know they are bothering him too. I took a lint roller and rolled it across the sheets one morning after I got up. I took a magnifying glass and I could see them. They are so tiny. Sort of reddish/brown in color. They look like a tiny small flea. I have even carried them into my office. I can feel them jump on my ankles. I think I'm going to send a piece of the lint roller tape to my agriculture's office and see what they say and if they can identify them.
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I have been dealing with these critters for over a year. My husband thought I was nuts when I told him about them because he says he doesn't itch but I see him when he's asleep scratching himself so I know they are bothering him too. I took a lint roller and rolled it across the sheets one morning after I got up. I took a magnifying glass and I could see them. They are so tiny. Sort of reddish/brown in color. They look like a tiny small flea. I have even carried them into my office. I can feel them jump on my ankles. I think I'm going to send a piece of the lint roller tape to my agriculture's office and see what they say and if they can identify them.
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Everyone, good news :-). The poor victims who have been wrongly diagnosed with "Morgellons", may soon be vindicated as a true host of parasites.  
My web search for "orange colored venom from skin sore" pointed me to this site below:
http://www.morgellonsuk.org.uk/micromyiasis.htm
Please be sure to read the entire article...the vindicating evidence is towards the end.  I now know I am for sure suffering from the parasite "Fungus Gnat Larvae".
Rebecca, BuggsyInVa
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Keeping stuff in bags doesn't really help unless u want 2 keep them their for 5 or more years. I have done a lot of research on ALL types of parasites including worms. I don't believe that these are new. What I believe is that they are as old as cockroaches but have been brought back out of a dormant stage due to all the crap we are doing to our environment and all the chemicals etc. that we are using. Thank you for the compliment. My last suggestion is to use food grade diatomacious earth as you wud baby powder. Make sure that you're completely dry before applying it. Douse it on yourself, your shoes, your hair, your sheets, etc. If u follow my suggestions, I am sure that you will be over these things in a matter of months. Boil clothes, sheets and towels and bathe in the coolest water u can handle with Dr. Bronners peppermint soap. NEVER let ur feet touch the ground.
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My dear friend Ayla. I understand that u and I don't completely have the exact same symptoms but I will say that the whole biting, crawling etc. is absolutely caused by bugs. I know this because mechanical methods have cured me of thes symptoms. One thing we might question is that many of us don't begin to feel the intensity of these symptoms until sundown. Researching some parasitic bugs like mosquitoes, we find that they usually don't start attacking until sundown. Another time that I've experienced biting and crawling is right after I've stopped exercising and was wet with sweat. another attribute to mosquitoes.  They jump on us when we are within range, an attribute to fleas. These things can absolutely be gotten rid of with mechanical methods. Their survival mechanism is adaptability and communication but they have no defense mechanism against mechanical killing  like steam ironing or boiling clothes. However I must say that even though I've had strange things like glass or crytal like thingys, I have not experienced fibers coming out of my skin.Now to the rest of you, I will tell you that Ayla is an amazing artist. She should be a world renown name in the art world.
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Can you get back to us on how the bleach thing worked out for you? I tried bleach and it had no effect.
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