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Category Archives: symptoms

Pyoderma, IVig

About 5 weeks after the ostomy surgery, I started having an inflammatory reaction to the dissolving stitches.  I also couldn’t get a bag not to leak, so there was some speculation that it was being caused by feces.  I had various ostomy nurses offer me different advice.  Then the raised pimple like bumps went down, [...]

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 [...]

The Plan

I tried coming off the antibiotics a few weeks ago, and 5 days later, things were starting to regress and I was very nauseous, started getting up at night again to use the bathroom.  So my doctor said to go back on them until I find something else to get off of them with.  Sigh. [...]

So Discouraged

So I’m at a crossroads. I’ve been using hookworms since Dec. 2007, with up and down results. I first tried 10 hookworms and was very sick; had an extreme reaction (fever, diarrhea, edema, arthritis) but that went away and I was so much better by month 4 it was a miracle. But I redosed in [...]

IF I could just stop Pooping

8 days in the hospital on IV antibiotics, IV fluids and magnesium, and I am home, thank God.  I had 3 rectal abscesses, high up in the rectum, too small to lance, but there nonetheless.  I haven’t had a rectal abscess in 23 years, the only one.  I think the inflammation caused by losing worms [...]