My wife and I have been driven from our home (a duplex) by some kind of mite that has invaded our home and skin. These mites are in rashes that flare up every few days after eggs have hatched in our hair, face, inside our mouth, chest, underarms, hands, genital region, legs and feet. Hmm... I'm not an expert, but those rash locations MAY BE A CLUE!! After 3 doctors visits, we were referred to this practice and very excited to see a "specialist". Until this nightmare that has been over 40 days now, we've had no experience with anything like this and can only speculate as to where these mites may have come from. Having a neighbor that lives in the other side of our duplex and shares an open attic with us and thin walls, the variables have narrowed, but we are not drug users and have had noone inside our home besides our weekly cleaning service and new-furniture movers.
The day of our appointments, my wife had been in bed for 3 days prior with severe back pain that turned out to be from her gallbladder. Not a coincidence since thousands of these things are in our digestive systems, in our urine and stool. After weeks of us having no real help other than YouTube videos and giving ourselves daily Tea Tree Oil treatments, the PA looked at my wifes hands (that had been attacked by mites she had in her hair and was trying to remove in the shower several days prior) and told her she had "contact dermatitis", nothing to worry about. A devastating blow to my wife to hear those words. She knew then that we were still on our own. After looking at the raging rash on my genitals, they took a biopsy of a rash on my chest that was currently dried up due to the daily Tea Tree Oil.
Today, the biopsy results were shared with me by the PA who told me that I was having "an allergic reaction from some kind of bug bite; possibly from working outside. No mites were detected. Good news!". I asked her if my wife was having the same allergic reaction from a bug bite that I may have received....she said Yes. Whaat???
For over 40 days now, we are in what seems like a nightmare movie and we could not have ever imagined that something like this could have invaded our home, our skin, our internal systems and shut down our lives. The specialist didn't listen to our cries for help, noticeably had no experience with whatever mite we have inside our skin and we continue to have to be our own experts relying only on YouTube videos like "what to do when do doctors dont help". We need Ivermectin, but doctors in the united states gatekeep this drug and are inexperienced with bird mites or scabies mites (the possible mites that are causing this nightmare)....So I've been forced to go to a FEED STORE to find Ivermectin designed for horses. OMG...
We are professionals, we live healthy lives in a clean home and we wanted to see a specialist in our neighborhood. This practice can not help. They solely relied on biopsy results from a dried rash that left a hole on my shoulder that now I have to clean many times a day and constantly find mite debris inside (black specs). I HAVE RUBBED OFF 5 NEW "MOLES" FROM MY TORSOE. FIVE! PRIOR TO ME RUBBING THEM OFF, WE TOLD THE PA ABOUT THEM, SHE LOOKED FOR 1/2 A SECOND AND SAID THE SOLID BLACK "MOLES" WERE HEALTHY. WHEN I RUB THEM OFF WITH TEA TREE OIL, THEY BREAK UP INTO MANY BLACK SPECS AND I'M LEFT WITH A HOLE THE SIZE OF THE "MOLE". WHAAAT??? MOLES DONT RUB OFF. WHY CANT WE GET HELP...FROM A "SPECIALIST"?? I could go on and on regarding the details of this daily and especially nightly nightmare. This practice was no help, and cost us 7 more days of waiting on biopsy results taken from a dried rash to end up right back where we were. They disregarded our symptoms (due to their lack of experience) and in so many words told us we were lying and had nothing to worry about. "Keep taking the cream we gave you". I'm willing to give our life savings to receive help. Trust me when I say, you are much more of an expert than the "specialist". I'll keep praying and looking for help for my family while living in a hotel. read more