I spotted it by chance on the back side of the shoulder. It's so long that I would have felt for sure how it was made if I was awake that moment. And it's weird in that it doesn't look like a regular scar but more like a very thin thread under the skin, but I can't tell for sure. I never saw morgellons and I just really hope it's not it. I photographed it and uploaded to my computer, but I only see an option that lets link pictures from the net. Any tips how I can post the image?

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Thank you feather

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can't insert it somehow

I like to try and rule out the mundane possibilities with things similar to this first. Do you live or work around anything that might scratch you, elfspirit? Cats, metallic shelves, thorn bushes, etc?

None of those. I'm not working and my cat is at the summerhouse atm.

It looks like you raked yourself against something maybe a little nail or something without knowing it,does it itch?

Doesn't itch or hurt. I would notice for sure if I did, and there hasn't been a situation within at least a month when I could. This spot is pretty hard to scratch like this too :\

elfspirit wrote:
Is there anything else you can possibly think of that might have caused that? It doesn't really look like a regular scratch or scrape to me, but I'm also not a dermatologist.

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Mrindigo wrote: I can't come up with anything. There are no sharp objects in the apartment that could leave the scratch in this spot. The only sharp thing I use is kitchen knife, only for cooking.

feather wrote: Got it thanks

Don't fret elf. It just looks like a regular scrape to me. I'm usually covered in them and I've no idea where they come from.

I agree with Ab's.

Probably scratched yourself when you were sleeping, sometimes as I bite my nails I have a jagged nail and wake up the next morning with scratches on my face or arms, not all the time, I'm not a junky and I don't have fleas.

Wheeeww it is actually a mere scratch, a thin line of dried blood that is, I could scratch off parts of it. Looks like the paranoya I wasn't aware I have from excessive conspiracy reading is finally manifesting I should follow the example of you guys on the other thread to drop all the sh*t and focus on my own well being. Still puzzled how I could get it hmmmmmm

elfspirit wrote: It can easily happen elfy.
For example I had never heard of morgel­lons, so I googled it.
Guess what?

"Morgellons (also called Morgellons disease or Morgellons syndrome) is a name that was given in 2002 by stay-at-home-mom Mary Leitao to a proposed condition characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and stinging sensations (formication); finding fibers on or under the skin; and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores). Doctors, including dermatologists and psychiatrists, regard Morgellons as delusional infestation (also called delusional parasitosis), the belief that there is a pathogenic infestation that remains despite contrary medical evidence.

Despite the lack of evidence that Morgellons is a novel or distinct condition and the absence of any agreed set of diagnostic symptoms, the Morgellons Research Foundation and self-diagnosed Morgellons patients successfully lobbied members of Congress and the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate the proposed condition. The CDC researchers issued the results of their multi-year study in January 2012, indicating that there were no disease organisms present in Morgellons patients, the fibers found were normal clothing fibers, and suggested that patients' sensations were manifestations of “delusional infestation.”

You'll be fine.