Monday, December 19, 2011
2 days after my IVig, my chronic pain from the pyoderma was gone. Gone! A few days later, all intestinal pain was gone. It felt like a miracle. You never realize how much pain you are living with until you aren’t. Stools began to firm up, I didn’t feel nauseous all the time. Ah, blessed [...]
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Sometimes just being alive is something to celebrate. It’s hard to think of anything positive about the last few months. The abscesses didn’t respond to the IV antibiotics enough, and I also tried oil of oregano, propolis, laser therapy, collostrum, colloidal silver… I was told I needed a temporary ostomy to give the rectum a [...]
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Back in the hospital again. Two new small rectal abscesses. What the hell is going on? I never had abscesses, fistulae. Are the hookworms doing anything negative since they are unable to do their positives whilst on antibiotics? My GI says if the infection doesn’t clear in 2 weeks, then the only option is a [...]
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Just did an egg count: 550 epg. Many eggs outside the grid (19!) so nice active population. Which means the hookworms survived the IV antibiotics Flagyl and Cipro, plus a few days of oral, then 3 weeks of Augmentin, another antibiotic, and all the miscellaneous painkillers, CT scans with contrast, etc. And I’ve been doing [...]
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Sometimes I have to write about the good times. This blog has too much negativity it seems. Yesterday, after sleeping through the night and having good dreams, I woke up to a solid bowel movement. Granted, there was blood when I wiped, and it hurt coming through, but to have a solid bowel movement is [...]
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