What is it like to have Morgellons disease?
It is difficult to understand the tremendous suffering caused by this disease. Many patients report feeling abandoned by the medical community, as they experience increasingly bizarre, disfiguring and painful symptoms, while often being unable to receive medical treatment for their condition. A large number of patients become financially devastated and lose health insurance because they can no longer work. Most report feeling frightened and hopeless as the only treatment they are typically offered is psychiatric, which is completely ineffective for all components of the illness other than emotional.
