29 weeks since my last infection. 46 weeks from the first. How many worms do I have left? Who knows? The constant mystery.
I went to the neurologist on Friday. It was kind of fun. Much better than the standard Crohn’s tests, like painful palpitations of your intestines, or the horrors of colonoscopy prep. I got to stand with my eyes closed and my hands in front of me, walk on my heels and toes. I got picked with a broken tooth pick (very advanced medical item), and what looked like a giant tuning fork, testing if I could feel the vibrations.
I felt everything, and have no evident neurological disease, thank God. I’m going today for the long list of blood tests that will look for various vitamin and mineral deficincies, which are probably the reason for my dizziness, and neuropathic symptoms. I’m relieved I don’t have MS or some other disease to add to the list. I’m still scared that it’s something yet unnamed, but for now I’m waiting for my liquid calcium and magnesium supplement to arrive, which I suspect is the biggest deficiency, besides low iron. But soon I’ll know…
I’m still twitching as I write; now a muscle over my left rib. This week is amazingly better than the ones before; I haven’t done anything but eat more chard, so perhaps it’s B vitamins as well. I just can’t believe with the way I eat that I have such nutritional loss that I am getting neuropathy. But I just read that almonds are high in oxylic acid, and after those months of black tea consumption, I guess I blocked any calcium absorption that was possible. I just wish I could drink black tea with milk. 5 cups a day. Sigh.
After the last few weeks of Crohn’s flare caused by raw milk yogurt, I’m finally giving up on dairy. If I am just so sensitive that too high a temperature in the yogurt maker sends me reeling, or God forbid the native cultures that come in raw milk, I just don’t want to mess with it any longer. If I react so severely to lactose, perhaps I am always reacting to the small amount of lactose left in the 30 hour yogurt? Or cheese?
So I’m giving up. Even though Christmas is around the corner and I will miss my whipping cream yogurt on top of pumpkin pie. I’m eating small amounts of saurkraut instead, and continuing on 2/3 a dose of VSL. And so far, it’s working.
So I got up around midnight to go to the bathroom, and got to feel the unusual sensation of a very long, solid bowel movement coming out. After a week of mostly diarrhea, it was wonderful. Looking in the toilet, I think it is the longest stool I’ve had in the last two years. But its diameter was rather pathetic, and I hope it merely represents hemmerhoids and not that I’ve developed a stricture in my new descending colon. But it was solid! Oh joy! Perhaps in time it will fatten out.
And after eating way too much melted chocolate and honey, apple cobbler and raw cashew cookies, I am feeling a little yeasty. I’ve got one sore in my mouth and my vagina aches. But I got through Halloween with much happiness, and I am having some solid stools, so life is mostly grand.
I have no idea what the hookworms are doing. But my skin is continuing to clear, so they must still be alive. My next adventure is finding a lab who will do a quantative egg count for me. I get to make a bunch of phone calls asking for someone to analyze my hookworm infection! The fun just never ends.
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