Thursday, January 12, 2012
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 [...]
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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 [...]
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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 [...]
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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).
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