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Category Archives: helminth therapy

More Worms

I went back to Tijuana on December 28th for more worms. This time I crossed with my husband and Herbert Smith, another Crohn’s patient who’s done a huge benefit to the helminth community by helping create the wiki site and finding and caching every paper written on helminth therapy, as well as sharing his success [...]

Nothing’s Working

Well, the fecal transfusion failed to keep my CRP down.  Last time I checked, a week ago, it was 16.   And things are worse now, so I’m sure it’s even higher.  I don’t blame the fecal transfusions, since before, when I tried to come off antibiotics, I only made it 5 days without it descending [...]

Hosting Worms and Needing Antibiotics?

So I may have developed a rectal abscess.  Oh joy.  I’ve had rectal pain that’s shooting, stabbing, very bad on and off for over a month.  Worse, I’m now getting fevers every week that last for 2-5 days.  I contacted my GI, who wants me to go directly to the colo-rectal surgeon, who wants me [...]

Why I Think It Is Important for Worm Donors to get Frequent Blood tests

There was a post on the Yahoo helmintherapy forum, in response to my query about how often a person who is acting as a “resevoir donor” (one hosting human hookworms or whipworms and giving them or selling them to another person to be infected)  should be tested for viral diseases.  I figured I’d post my [...]

What To Look For in a Helminth Provider

I get asked a lot for recommendations on who to get worms from.  There are currently 3 worms used for therapy: TSO, or trichuris suis ova, hookworms (necator americanus) and human whipworms (trichuris trichuria).