The Australian celiac disease trial just released their data. It worked! Those with celiac disease were able to eat bread with much less intestinal damage than the placebo. And everyone elected to keep their hookworms. And they were only given 15 worms total, so that’s pretty amazing. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2009/s2721104.htm and http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26244355-26103,00.html I can contest that I [...]
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Not content to be one of the first women with Crohn’s disease trying hookworms, I thought I’d just throw a new loop in the mix. I just found out I am pregnant! Oh boy. My new worms just attached yesterday as well. Now, besides approximately 20 hookworms, I have a new parasite growing inside of [...]
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
This last week has been one of my more trying ones. My husband left on Saturday, and that night, I didn’t sleep at all. That reawoke the anxiety/insomnia that I’ve now experienced last month, and in July; always on my PMS week. The first was when I was travelling, so I wrote it off to [...]
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Today is 3 days since getting reinfected. Yesterday, I woke up very happy. But by mid-morning, a bone-settling fatigue set in, but in a nice way. I just wanted to lie on the ground next to the chicken coop, so I did. I was very, very relaxed. It felt like my bones were soup. I [...]
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Aaaah, the hookworm high. I feel like a heroine addict getting her fix. About 1/2 an hour after skin entry, I felt a little giddy – laughing over nothing. This went away, and nothing really happened until the next day, except immediate cessation of nausea, more energy, and an appetite for specific foods. (Thai food, [...]
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