I’m going to take a break from blogging for the summer. I just want to have some time away from thinking about worm therapy, and need to give the new things I’m doing some time to assess before writing about them. I’ll still take comments and answer questions, so keep ‘em coming. My action plan: [...]
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It’s been 2.5 years now that I’ve been playing with hookworms. It’s been a very exciting and trying journey. When I began, my choices were TSO (trichuris suis ova, or pig whipworms), or a trial for hookworms at the University of Nottingham. I chose TSO, but the FDA had blocked importation of it temporarily, and [...]
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It is now 8 months since my last infection with 10 hookworm larvae, and I am steadily going downhill. Now pain is a constant, I saw blood yesterday for the first time, I’m going to the bathroom a minimum of 5 X a day, mostly loose or diarrhea, and I’m nauseous on and off, have [...]
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I did another egg count; my old way (which I now realize is wrong) was to count all the eggs I saw, whether in the grid or not. This egg count = 1300 epg, which is similar to what I’ve been getting since reinfecting with 10 hookworms last September. The bad news, is the egg [...]
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It has been brought to my attention that this blog is not encouraging helminthic therapy, but instead is harming people in posting my experience and the studies I come across. My intention was to blog my failure or success with helminthic therapy, as I was one of the first Crohn’s patients to try it. It [...]
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