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Week 7

Fever broke after 3 days.  No night sweats the last few nights.  Now I just have diarrhea. When, oh when, do the good times start?  Blessed (or f$^*ing, depending on my state of mind) worms, I need some relief. Well, happy New Year to all!  May you be blessed with a balanced immune system, be [...]

Week 6 Sucks

Fever (99.8 – 101), night sweats, aches in joints, more twitching and a little anxiety.  Some solid BM’s, going about twice a night, another 3 times in the day.  Doing steroid foam for the rectum; sort of seems to help? Luckily my fever over a week ago went away, and I felt well enough to [...]

6 Weeks: Egg count 150 epg

Just did another egg count.  Only 3 eggs total in both grids = 150 epg New worms haven’t matured yet, damn it. My rectum is the worst it has ever been, or the worst that I can remember.  I’ve got a huge painful external hemmeroid that’s killing me.  Inside is bloody and sore too.  I’ve [...]

Latest Egg count: 250 epg

For what it’s worth.  I only did one stool sample, but not very many eggs.  5 eggs in both grids = 250 epg. I’ll do another one next week.  I want to see when these new worms mature. Night sweats every night, fever from 99 – 100.4 every day.  No more solid bowel movements, more [...]

Week 4

The last few days have kind of sucked.  It may be from some things I ate, it may be that I’ve lowered my Vit D from 10,000 IU to 4,000 because of a high calcium reading.  I also am down to 5 mg. of prednisone. Just feeling nauseous, and my muscles ache, and my anus [...]