Well I was expecting to be utterly disappointed and the dermatologist exceeded my expectations. My $45 USB Microscope is more sophisticated than anything in their office. I showed him a huge stack of pictures I printed and he was extremely vague and noncommittal about anything. He tried his hardest to dodge my questions so I rephrased them and kept asking. He wouldnt say whether he thought these mysterious objects were hairs, ingrown hairs, fibers or anything. He wouldnt even make a guess. He put on his magnifying goggles and said he could see exactly what I was talking about and he tried to pull a couple out with his 50 cent tweezers to no avail. Theyre too small and you need the best tweezers made, not some disposables from a surgical kit. He tried to tell me that the problem with microscopes is that everything looks scary and alien like. His actual advice was to quit looking at it and forget about it. I told him that would be easy if it didnt feel like I had freaking splinters under my skin. It feels like a splinter, and without fail I find something sticking out of my skin in that exact spot. He literally sent me home with some slides and told me to bring back a sample and hed be happy to send it off to the lab. But in a previous sentence he told me that hairs were too small to be analyzed. I disagreed and told him there had to be labs that can analyze nano sized particles and fibers and he said yeah, if you want to send it to NASA .. and I said can we?. He also told me that there was no way anything can live in your skin. He said the only parasite that can live in your skin is scabies and I dont have scabies. Overall it was a pathetic waste of time and my faith in the medical community sinks even lower. Ive said it before and Ill say it again .. if you break a bone .. theyre good at screwing it back together and if you have an infection antibiotics do work for the most part. If anything else is wrong with you, youre better off fixing it yourself through diet and nutrition. Im probably going to order a better microscope and continue my own investigation and find my own treatment. At this point I have no clue what it is but I have a few avenues to pursue. I showed him the picture of the flake of skin (in the pics below) and asked him if that looked like a normal flake of skin to him and he kept telling me how anything under a microscope looks crazy and blah blah so I told him theyve been studying skin under microscopes for 100 years, can I find a picture in any medical text book that looks like this and he finally said no, Ive never seen anything like that. Im going to continue my search for a dermatologist thats up to speed with modern technology and for my next appointment Im goin in armed with pictures and samples. I honestly believe if I didnt have pictures to prove the splinters I feel are in fact real he would have tried to tell me it was all in my head. Everything he said was leading down that avenue. I cant believe that hes never once seen a flake of skin that looks like that, nor has he ever seen things that look like this growing out of someones skin, yet he would still tell me to forget about it. To a minor degree I almost felt like he knew what it was but wasnt at liberty to say. At any rate my quest for answers shall continue.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:11:34 +0000
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