Week 6-7

This last week has ben up and down. My period arrived, and that brought an end to the diarrhea and looser stools. A few nights of mellow night sweats just before, nothing significant. I did have a HUGE amount of energy just before, which doesn’t often happen, and did gardening and yard cleaning for hours and hours. I got huge brush piles cleared, junk piles gone. I just kept going; it was wonderful.

But after that weekend and a set of hot days, the neuropathy has returned. Wham! I read somewhere that menstruation lowers your magnesium, which is what I think I’m dealing with, as this always is preceded by worsening leg cramps in the night, and muscles that twitch. I’ve been twitching for days. Then my period, some hot days, and….neuropathy. So it’s back on the magnesium supplements, and I need to order my liquid magnesium, since that seemed to work best. I have a tingly tongue, slightly numb hands, a little dizzy and weird. I hate the feeling.

My ankles feel a little arthritic as well, though it could be all the walking and gardening I did. The sad news is the last few days I have eaten a little off my diet, and it has brought an increase in gas and pain. The ileal area is clearly narrowed and that makes me very depressed. This whole hookworm experiment has taken too long; these symptoms totally went away for months last year, only to return in the fall with a vengeance, so I think the inflammation that came back after losing my worms resulted in worse narrowing. The worms may have an influence, since there was a case study that showed hookworms caused bowel wall thickening in someone without Crohn’s.

I don’t know if I still have the worms; I’m waiting for all of my equipment still. I’m feeling more depressed about not being able to eat much differently, and I seem to be having more mucus, am up multiple times a night if I eat fiber or off my diet. I guess it’s just too late to be normal. I should probably get my ileal-cecal valve checked to see where it’s at. I just want to be well and hide from this all; neuropathy, partial blockages, arthritis. Sometimes I wonder if the worms are truly safe, but I guess my only other option is even less safe; Tysrabi.

So I’m wondering if some of the worms have died, or maybe that wonderful week 3 and 4 were just a bounce, and I am left with this?