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Anyone else dealing with Demodex Mites? What helps?
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You have expressed so well exactly how I feel ! I totally agree with you about the ignorance of doctors. Or they don't want to deal with this problem and hope you just go away.
I wish I could do something about my stress . If stress and excess cortisol contribute to overgrowth then I am certainly recreating the problem daily, minute by minute. I don't get adequate sleep which isn't good I know. For months I wake up in the a.m. at 3:00, 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. and never get back to sleep. I am constantly tired and losing weight, that can't be helping this either. I spend hours every week doing extra laundry and cleaning . I wish I could see some end to all this. But so far, I just don't.
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I 100% feel you. It’s so f*d actually. And a constant and isolating effort. I struggle heaps with insomnia, since I was a kid actually, so I understand what you mean. It’s frustrating and I feel like by now I’ve binge watched just about everything and anything trying to turn my brain off from it all. I’m neurodivergent so my insomnia has been almost inescapable unless I use medication, which is helpful but comes with its own side effects, especially if used habitually. I tried melatonin and found it didn’t really help. Some things that are maybe weird but hey desperation is real over here, I use tape on my skin occasionally and I also go through lint rollers quick bc I use em on my pillowcases and sheets on days that I don’t wash just in case any of those little jerks are there. I totally miss the days of using a towel more than one time or not feeling like I need to change my sheets every other day (I finally got myself to not do it daily by trying to calm my nerves about it all). It really takes over your days. Especially when you already have a phobia of bugs! Ha. It’s actually not funny. I’m neurodivergent and it’s easy for me to get hyper fixated on things hence this is such a tenfold struggle. The inside of my hands are affected and it makes me feel afraid to pat my dog who is literally my whole life. She is 10 now and tho they can’t live out their lifecycle on a dog, they can still get on them and irritate their skin which has happened to her and so I feel so guilty for it and also for not patting her as much as I used to. Especially because she is a very cuddly baby. We have been to the vet and she takes her monthly meds for parasites etc and I have to bathe her weekly with anti parasite shampoo, plus I have her on heaps of immunity supplements etc (as am I actually) but even still, she’s gotten a skin spot about every 6 months or so. I have this spray for the spots and they don’t seem to really bother her but it’s a slippery slope to infection and the like… all in all, despite all the vets and all the doctors, there’s just nothing more I can do about all this. It swallows your life and then your just like constantly fighting to get out of its very costly (in more ways than one) clenches. Day in and day out.