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nicolamc
nicolamc

Hi All,  I dont know if anyone has come across this.  I have a worm infestation in my face.  They travel around under the skin leaving tracks and bursting holes into my skin.  they create glass like balls that split the skin open and move around my skin with ease. 

I first reported it 3 months ago and the doctors totally ignored me treating me for a secondary infection that was caused by open wounds in my face.  They have given me 4 courses of antibiotics treating the wrong infect but totally ignored waht I was telling ithem about the worms. 

The worms whatever they are are very sharp and whereever they travel through in my face the skin collapses, leaving it like plastercine and it causes tiny splinters that are as sharp as anything that inbed themselves in the inside and outside of my skin right down to the lowest skin level. My skin is also producing a clear sticky substance which feels like little shards of glass if I touch it.  All in all, it really couldnt be much worse except for the fact they have made a hole around my mouth which they can look out of.  I am totally sane!

I am in pieces.  I've been telling the doctors what it is and they have totally ignored me.  Even refusing to refer after an A & E i visited confirmed I needed to be referred as the lesions had been on my face for so long.   

I discovered I had private medical care through my company which now thank god means I've seen my first dermatologist.  He's referred me to another dermatlogist that apparently knows more about things in the skin who I'm yet to see.  Even though he's now put me in the right direction, I'm not convinced he was sure it is worms.  I can pull 1/2 inch worms out of my skin bit by bit.  They look like thread worms and never come out intact, you pull little bits off of them.  It leaves worm shape dents in my face and they feel like little match sticks under the skin.  Nobody is taking me seriously as people dont really get worms in the face. 

They have totally destroyed me skin and I have bad scaring.  I have never had acne and had no scaring.   This has all been caused in the last 3 months.  I dread to think how many are alive in there now they'v been left so long.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?

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  • Diggity
    Diggity nicolamc

    Posted

    I came across some info last night that stated Strongyloides are largely attracted to carbon dioxide and Urocanic acid (concentrations can be up to five times greater in the foot than any other part of the human body)

    Chemical stimuli. ...

    My skin was already overly-problematic, so decided to endulge in a high concentration chlorine bath (DON'T TRY IT). Aside from my skin already acclamated to that particular environment, there were no benefits or reliefs to come from it

    The stimuli question still swimming in my head, hit upon a physical stimulation, a TENS unit. Starting out, my leg did not show not

    • Diggity
      Diggity

      Posted

      (Uhh)

      Not show edema or exaggerated markings. I had an immediate response as soon as  the TENS unit turned on.I left it on for a painful 2 hours. Only a little cutaneous movement feeling after turned off and swelling quickly subsided.

      The entire purpose of this post was to give picture support, which keeps giving me file too big. 

      I'll try later.

  • Diggity
    Diggity nicolamc

    Posted

    From National Institute of Health:

    Strongyloides stercoralis is a nematode endemic in humid, tropical regions (1, 2) including

    Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America (3). It is also endemic in southeastern United States and southern Europe, although most cases in the US occur in immigrants and military

    veterans who have lived in endemic regions (2). A second species of Strongyloides, S.

    fuelleborni can cause human strongyloidiasis but is less common and mainly found in Africa

    and Papua New Guinea (4). S. stercoralis is unique in its ability to replicate in the human

    host permitting ongoing cycles of autoinfection. Strongyloidiasis can consequently persist

    for decades without further exposure to exogenous infection (2, 4). The estimated

    prevalence of strongyloidiasis is between 50 to 100 million infections worldwide; however,

    the accuracy of these estimates is uncertain due to the poor sensitivity of screening methods

    (2, 5).

    Chronic S. stercoralis infections can be asymptomatic or cause cutaneous, gastrointestinal

    and/or pulmonary symptoms (4). In patients with concurrent Human T-cell-lymphocytic

    virus 1 (HTLV-1) infection or those on corticosteroid therapy, autoinfection can go

    unchecked and large numbers of invasive Strongyloides larvae may disseminate widely and

    cause hyperinfection, which can be fatal (2, 6, 7). Other recognized predisposing conditions

    or risk factors for infection include living in an endemic region, chronic malnutrition,

    malignancies, organ transplantation, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary

    disease (COPD), alcoholism, chronic renal failure and breast milk from an infected mother

    (7, 8).

    Pathogenesis

    • Engineer32
      Engineer32 Diggity

      Posted

      1,  Parasites run in packs people. 

      2. Only 2 wormers kill small stronglyoids in horses. (which have a digestive system not that unlike people). 

      Moxidectin, and Fenbendazole.

      Moxdiecitin is in Quest Plus, which also contains biltricide. It can be given to dogs  to prevent heartworms.  

      Fenbendazole is sold ,as Panacure,for horses, it works on piglets, chickens, puppies,  check about cats, I can;t remember. 

      What you have to remember is that a person with zoonotic worms likely got them from a biting insect, and the worm seems to put out a phonome that attracts other biting insects carrying DIFFERENT parasites, and what the parasites do when they die ranges from uncomfortable to fienishly itchy to deadly.

      It is particularly dangerous to give someone infected with small Strongyloids ivermectin, because IVY will kill the adults, and then those that are encysted in the colon wall all hatch at the same time. This can kill the horse, or make it colic so bad it has to be put down. 

      Go read the Worm that Kills over at the Horse's Back. 

      Then design your wormer sequence.  

  • elizabeth_31572
    elizabeth_31572 nicolamc

    Posted

    Can I see pic please iv been suffering for months constant gas itchy nose and white threads coming Out As Well As Itchy Bottom And Itchy Bits Keep Getting White Eggs On Top.My Vagina. Iv tried ovex so many times one min feel getting better than feel worse headaches regular. I have picture of work it's over 4 cm and brown doesn't look taped would be possible show u see what u think iv done stool sample which negative. Also think daughter and son have this as seen eggs on daughters bum tried ovex as said for while nothing even tried scabies creams nothing 4 whole family too.

    • Diggity
      Diggity elizabeth_31572

      Posted

      Welcome.

      About these white eggs, do you have a better description or even better, a pic?

    • elizabeth_31572
      elizabeth_31572 Diggity

      Posted

      yes excuse pic its constant wash them away feeling sick all while and no energy pains are so bad in my left side its unreal
    • Diggity
      Diggity elizabeth_31572

      Posted

      Is there any indication of a very small hair with or without a folicule-like encapsulation? (Im not able to blow up your pic as big as I do my own). Or does this more resemble a closed sac, or egg?
    • elizabeth_31572
      elizabeth_31572 Diggity

      Posted

      It's jpeg just clicked myself it's useless size anyway could email it ? Or a just size so can view better
    • elizabeth_31572
      elizabeth_31572

      Posted

      It's the eggs there white like little pin white spots more on my vagina then my bottom although my bottom does itch too also have bruises on leg where I have itched getting beyond joke
    • Diggity
      Diggity elizabeth_31572

      Posted

      Ok, first my disclaimer. I am NOT a doctor or medical practitioner. I am merely a suffering parasitic host with approximately 1000 hours of DD, Cross-referencing and research on related issues/topics. Everything I suggest is IMHO (In My Honest Opinion).

      That said...

      I addressed the "egg" issue first because of how VERY small they are (usually 200x-400x mag power). Your pic appears to show only worms. Keep in mind, more often than not, a parasitic infected person is hosting more than 1 parasite. To me, your pics show Threadworms and the other looks to be a flatworm (tapeworm). Your symptoms would be unusual for pinworm, so I would place my bet on Strongyloides. Unfortunately, they are of the hardest to confirm with tests. Ovex does nothing to either worm.

      The downside, most people sitting in forums, properly untreated, is because of the ignorance of the medical field that refuse to believe a Strongyloide infection is even remotely possible.

      Check out the CDC (dot) GOV website for Strongyloide info, INCLUDING "Physicians Notes". I have kids with symptoms also. I've just started pumping pineapple juice (2-3x's/day) into them trying to gain some sort of foothold until I locate a proper pediatrician, knowledgeable with this, to take them under care. Their ex-present pediatrician literally called me dilussional then told me to "shut up".... that will never happen again.

      I stay as continually involved as I can, while I can. I'm still researching a dozen or so ideas which I'll keep posting here. Any questions are welcomed, I'll help best I can.

      1 note about CDC site & (accused) inconclusive/incorrect info:

      Cannot transfer person-to-person - Wrong

      Not sexually transmittable - Wrong

  • yourdad
    yourdad nicolamc

    Posted

    A lot of u sound like you have tapeworm.

    Treatments are.

    Praziquantel (Biltricide)

    Albendazole (Albenza)

    Nitazoxanide (Alinia)

    For your skin.

    Get a pH palanced soap like femfresh and use it all over after using the Meds.

    I suffered for ten years and have finally found a cure...

    You will need to disinfect your house top to bottom.

    Wet wipe everything then dry wipe everything.

    • opir80800
      opir80800 yourdad

      Posted

      I am suffering been to 6 Derms- talked to many docs- A infectious desease doc after blood,stool urine- tests say now it's me ... Schistomiasis is what i have from stream - blood flukes- why won't doc give me Praziquental--- hav asked for times,, is safe >> side effects ?

    • marie86597
      marie86597 opir80800

      Posted

      You know what it is so that's a Great!!

      What's Dr. Name who diagnosed you?

    • Engineer32
      Engineer32 opir80800

      Posted

      Buffalo Gourd

      Cucurbita foetidissima is the real thing, if you can find it.  

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