What Do I Have?

Hi All,
This is the best, most current forum I have found so here I am posting my problem. I am not sure where to begin, so I'll begin with the present and go back in time.

Current symptoms:

1) I spit out of my mouth and find on my shoes something that looks yellowish and oval with a point, smaller than a sesame seed but easily visible to the naked eye. (I put one of the ones from my shoe on my hand at my friend's doc's office and we watched it bite me and molt into what the doc thought looked possibly like a tiny flea).

2) I have a seemingly normal BM, but not until every 4-6 days, much longer than my normal daily routine.

3) I have lost about 25 lbs or so since this begin more than 3 months ago.

4) I find tiny black things every time I wipe from urination and even now in my nose.

5) I have found 3 circular white things that fell off my feet-- look a bit like a small sequin-- and they had a red to black dot in the center that came out after I placed the circles in a baggie to be seen by whomever would believe me in the medical world.

6) I have looked up a lot of things and the two that seem most likely are the chigoe flea (or chigger) and the stick flea (or stickfast flea).

7) I have found in my stool and mouth what looked like an oval with a 1" tail, which caused me to believe I could have pin worms.

8) a) Before doing anti-bug treatments on my hair I found small larval-like things falling from my head and in my pubic hair (the pubic hair is where the feeling began-- I ignored it thinking it was summer heat).
b) Also, before the hair treatment that worked-- previous hair treatments brought about an extreme itchiness on my neck and hands, creating severe dermatitis on my scalp and neck with similar dermatitis on my feet.

9) I came home from a long weekend and there were dark reddish brown things of two sizes that looked like an oval with a point. No legs were visible. The point was not on the end like what I spit from my mouth and found on my shoes but rather on the long side of the oval. This is what makes me think of both the chigger and the stick flea.

Less obvious symptom:
10) Whenever I am in the shower and my skin begins to saturate with water, my right foot feels strange on the bottom-- like there is something in it, but I cannot find anything, it feels like I am stepping on something in that area but nothing visible is there.

Possible Exposures:
11) I have taken furniture from a couple who traveled to South America frequently and have now moved there.
12) I have taken an air conditioner from a family with a dog and a bird whose children had bites all over them shortly before they suddenly moved back down south (they were from TX and had been living in Florida). While still here, they lived right next to people from Africa who also had a dog.
13) My kid's best friend is from Australia. She has play dates and overnights with her on occasion.

14) KID SYMPTOM: Repeated UTI's.

15) OTHER:

a) I have had random bites, one area of an oval-ish shape with six bites of varying sizes that melded into one and is healing now, but still there.

b) After treating my whole body with Belly Balm and Burt's Bees Baby Cream (which has "natural borax" in it) and wrapping my whole head in a scarf for a few days, changing it a couple times a day, things got better and then...

c) I peeled virtually an entire layer of skin from my scalp, a bit at a time, using a comb and my fingers. This took me total of about five hours. Afterward my neck was worse than ever even though I had my head downward-- my neck turned purple and wrinkly-- then that peeled away a few days later as well.

d) I also treated the floor and furniture of my entire home with 1/2 baking soda and 1/2 salt mixture to dry out and kill anything larval--many larval stage bugs can live for years in a carpet or in furniture. I'm still vacuuming from this, should be done by tomorrow.

16) HOWEVER-- am still left with symptoms that I mentioned first. I don't see the larval shaped things anymore. I do see things shaped like the reddish brown things that were on my floor-- only it looks more like molted skin and is white. I see things that could be eggs as well and continue to see tiny black things near anything else I see.

17) I have other possible early symptoms, but I've said so much and am not sure what is relevant. Please feel free to answer me here or send an email.

BEST WISHES TO ALL and THANKS IN ADVANCE for any reply. :)


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