So what do the patients say when the illness is mysteriously absent from that area?
Though I guess if it was environment, like from some kind of insect, it could genuinely continue in other areas while stopping there.
Seems like it should be easy to get this stuff on video:
> “You feel the sensation of something that’s trying to come out of your skin.” He is pacing back and forth now. He is becoming breathless. “You feel that. And when you try to start picking, sometimes it’s a little fiber, sometimes it’s a little hard lump, sometimes little black specks or pearl-like objects that are round and maybe half a millimeter across. When it comes out, you feel instant relief.
If I was a patient suffering from that, I'd absolutely capture it on video; or I'd ask my doctor to admit me to a hospital briefly, or plan to show up when it's happening. If it's real, it should be trivial to get hard evidence and documentation showing that it's happening.
Come on, be creative. One of these things crawls out, finds the patch (or smells it from below the skin), crawls back, puts on a notice/chemical marker "this is not the way out", and none follow. Of course you won't find any when you take a look after a day or two. It isn't that hard to procure a new epicycles for every argument against your theory.
And yes, if _this_ is real, it should be easy to get hard evidence, but also:
- sufferers will see evidence where others don't see it. That (IMO) is the whole thing with this disorder.
- if you look hard enough, you will find something with every sufferer. That MD may actually have suffered a mite infection, somebody else will have lived near a chemical plant, have been to some corner of the earth, will have some very uncommon mix of genes, etc. that's what I read here, too. Every person mentioned has his own variation of symptoms and his own snake oil way to decrease the symptoms. I hope the organizer of these conventions isn't in it for the money, but I fear otherwise.
