Gnats or Fruit flies following me

[Keeby]

This may sound very unususal,and beleive me I wouldn't even mention it, if it hadn't become such an anomoly to me. For the past 3 months or so I have noticed that I have gnats flying around me at home. Just a couple,but they follow me from room to room, wherever I go. They also follow me to work,and I have them in my office too. Then when I go to another person's office, they follow me in there too. So essentially it's me they are after. There is no food or fruit anywhere,and I do not wear cologne. I have not done anything different from when they were not constantly around me. I am not sure why they are around me, but as you can see, it has become a problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you

[flywoman]

I too am experiencing what seems to be micro-myiasis (a possible infestation or breeding? of several forms of tiny and almost microscopic flies) for over a year and have been trying to convince my doctor to no avail. (Note: I also have type O negative blood type.) After seeing an article linking it to Morgellons, I am planning to try to contact the Morgellons research center at the University of Oklahoma as well as a parasitology lab I just heard about run by someone named Dr. Amin. Has anyone out there had any luck getting a diagnosis yet??

[Anut420]

I got it to ... my only solution to sleep is a high powered fan at the foot of my bed

[tomkeen]

Hello all. As most of you, I too am being bothered by these little bastards who like to fly into my eyes and feed. I have been having this problem for around 7 months and haven't been able to find any cure yet. The only reason I'm writing here is because I want to share my situation with you, maybe this information will help someone else or help us find a solution, despite the fact that I've quickly come to believe that there's not much we can do about it, at least not until the medical profession has a better understanding of what's causing these symptoms.
Most of the time I'm not bothered by these flies except for when I go to sleep. A couple of minutes after going to bed, I start feeling the little bastards flying around my eyes (sometimes ears, but I might be imagining this, I wouldn't be surprised) and constantly bouncing back and forth and around my eyelids. I tried sleeping while having my eyes covered but most of the time they manage to get close to my eyes even through fabric, weird! The only way for me to fall asleep is to either use my hand (fingers) and cover my eyes (it seems the flies know my hand is around there and don't bother me that much, at least until I fall asleep) or to use the blanket and cover my eyes until I manage to fall asleep. I don't even want to think what happens when I'm asleep.
Having read quite a lot on this topic (mostly from this website and this post) I have quickly excluded Morgellons and other similar syndromes and the only 2 possible causes I am being left with are:
1) (Micro) Myiasis. A helpful short website is: http://www.morgellonsuk.org.uk/micromyiasis.htm. I believe someone else posted it on this forum earlier.

2) Gastro-intestinal problems. I have had gastro issues for the past 4-5 years with some major complications. Mostly is undiagnosed illness like IBS/IBD and things like that. I'm saying undiagnosed because I've come to learn that the medical profession has close to no clue what is happening in the human gut and they attribute these names (like IBS) to a set of symptoms that is also similar to 10 other conditions but what actually IBS means is "we have no idea what's causing your distress in the gut/stomach/colon". To help "treat" (there's not a particular cure but more of a condition management way) my IBS condition, I tried many many ways, tried different supplements, prescription pills etc but it all comes down to what you eat. Although I'm still far from fully managing my condition, I'm now beginning to understand what is best for me or what causes a reaction. In any case, the DIET and what food and types of food we put into our body matters the most, I am now fully convinced of that. And I'm not just talking about eating healthy foods, I'm talking about watching the ingredients the foods are made from and so on. It's more of a way of micro managing what you put inside your body.
The reason I wanted to bring this up is because, as MANICBLOGGER thinks, I too believe that this condition is caused (at least with me) by some gastro-intestinal problems. Something went wrong at a time inside our bodies and caused the flies to be attracted to us.
What's also worrying is the fact that sometimes I can't even see these flies which makes me wonder if there are some other species (maybe invisible to the human eye) which are also attracted to my eyes. In either case, I only told one doctor about this and after I saw he wasn't really believing what I was saying, I changed the subject and left it like that. I'm seeing doctors regarding my IBS condition but I haven't mentioned to any of them these symptoms and I don't plan to.
I hope this helps and good luck everyone!

[Boy2x]

I think it was a polmunary problem.
I have a reactive bronchial. But the doctor don't gave me a medicine to take.

[AmIBuggingYou]

As I sit here and type these words I am swatting and swatting and swatting and swatting. It is endless. I can go on a camping trip with 10 people and no one sees a single damn bug all weekend. But here I am looking like I belong in a rubber room. I have researched this Daily for years and I have yet to find anything that works. And I have tried every suggestion I ran across. I have gone as far as I started smoking and I always have a fan on so they cannot get to me, it doesn't matter what I do they find a way. They fly up my pant legs, in the arms of my shirts, down my neck and all over my hair constantly. Im lucky if I sleep 5 minutes at a time. I wake up constantly and I can feel them on me. I feel I am living a miserable existence. What did I do to deserve this?? And what can I do to make it go away?? About a year ago, I decided that I give up finding an answer. In one weeks time I recorded how much effort I put into this and I was pushing almost 30 hours and barely getting about 3 hours sleep a night and only a few minutes at a time and with all the other negative stuff going on in my life and around the world, I can't take it anymore. I wish I could hit fast forward then break the damn remote. Just so they will someday not bug me anymore. I do look forward to that. Good luck finding an answer to your question. Answer no one wastes their time messaging me back I only joined the site so I could post this because I can relate, but I will be erasing my profile so dont bother......

[Ayakhat]

This whole paragraph is my entire life since my teenage years summed up in a nutshell. SOMEONE FIND AN ANSWER PLEASE

[polarvortex]

The acne answer was close imo. I believe it has to do with clogged or blocked pores. Salt primarily. You see, when your pores get clogged, oily hair or skin, dryer skin or ingrown haurs, salt as well as odor/specific hormones can't excape.

We all know how electrolytes work and how salt plays a vital role in hydration. Salt is vital in this and the fuel of sweat(containining smells), water ect. and needs to come out of us properly. If it builds up inside it can be like a potpouri for insects.

My suggestion is to stay hydrated. Heat rises so trapped pores will get attention with closed off pores to the scalp and face. Some who sweat more than others need to be more attentive.

Witch hazel should be a good solution as it opens pores. B7 or biotin might help. More vitamin C and citris also. Lastly, cayenne pepper in your food more regularly. Hope this helps

[LightningGuy1124]

I've got the same thing, I've had it for years since 1996 the doctors don't seem to believe me I've gone to four skin specialist and tropical disease specialist the years later went back to the original skin specialist, who said I had psoriasis, He now says I never had psoriasis my skin is getting all scarred up from me diving and itching.  I am seeing those flies all the time, thought maybe it was because I used to work in bars and restaurants but now I'm working in a department store that has no food no fruit and other staff members see them too and only started to see them the first night I started working and ever since then and some of them and other friends say they're getting itchy!  Please somebody help if you can!!

[bugsheretoo]

I hope you saw my apology, and I want to let you know that your post gave me an idea which is really helping me. I have been wracking my brain for 3 years trying to figure out why I am being terrorized by these things while others aren't. Even though I don't have acne - and in fact my skin lesions aren't that bad compared to some of the people I've seen wandering around these days - there is evidently something about me attracting the fungus gnats, and it is probably a skin fungus of sorts. While researching over the weekend, I came across an article - I think it was a YouTube video - discussing how 100% of people in Germany have the fibers associated with Morgellons on their skin, but only a small % of the people have Morgellons symptoms. Another article suggested that malassezia may be the reason - some people have too much on their skin. So now I am learning about busting the biofilm layer on the skin and using natural methods to attack the fungus. There is a good article on this website:
http://www.gestaltreality.com/2014/07/08/healing-skin-by-altering-its-ph-microbial-malassezia-profile/
I hope this helps someone and thank you again for bringing up the skin issue NarutoUzimaki!!