Being sick was a one-day thing. I did buy a gluten-free version of Quaker Oats oatmeal. I'll give it a go today and see if I do better. Celiacs can react to oats, so it's possible that was the source. For the record while fully hookwormed I've eaten hundreds of bowls of regular oatmeal without consequence. The clock is ticking, I hope, until my celiac days are over. From now on I'll aim for a 5-month cycle between inoculations.
Yesterday I got sick. Twice. Just like I remember being sick in my celiac pre-hookworm days when I was still eating gluten. A colonoscopy cleanse level sick.
I had been eating gluten-free this month letting my critters grow and mature into their adult forms so I wasn't sure what happened. Then I remembered I had eaten a new oatmeal. I didn't say gluten-free on the front but I figured a little gluten probably wouldn't phase me. Well I figured wrong. I checked the ingredients list and yep, in
Not much to report. My GI issues have all cleared up, but that's probably because I've gone gluten-free for the month of June. My entry wound has almost entirely healed. Aside from a touch of redness it should be 100% in a couple of days. That steroid cream made a huge difference, not in pain or discomfort really but certainly in aesthetics. Previously the entry wound was ugly enough to scare children.
The way the life cycle of the hookworms works after about a week the larvae drill through
This time around I've been using a steroid cream to keep down the inflammation. The results still aren't pretty but I don't have the ugly blisters I usually get. Definitely worth using.
The cream I used was a topical corticosteroid called Taro-Mometasone, aka Mometasone Furoate USP 0.1%, applied every 6–8 hours.
After a week the mark should be almost gone. After multiple inoculations I've never been left with a scar. It has never hurt, just tingled initially and itched some later. Noth
A couple of weeks ago or so I started noticing GI issues. Occasional bouts of loose stool, stirrings of colitis, incontinence - all completely at odds with my usual experience. It had been more than 6 months since my last hookworm inoculation so I knew it was time to re-up.
Things have changed since I started with Helminthic Therapy. I got hooked up with the Helminthic Therapy Support Group on Facebook and a contact there suggested I try another provider, one that used courier tracking and
So I ordered my first hookworms around July 7th, 2018.
The sales and transport of hookworm operates in somewhat of a gray area. Authorities recognize that seriously ill people are trying helminths like hookworms tin order to get better, but the laws in all jurisdictions haven't caught up with what some people see as a medical necessity. Accordingly, providers of hookworm larvae prefer to operate on the down low. Restricting communication by email and payment by Bitcoin work towards that en
In the last blog entry it was late July 2018 and my larvae had just arrived. Before going further there is a fair amount of history leading up to that moment that probably should be discussed.
Back in 1999 at age 35 and single again I had my first inkling of what was to come. I was into body building at the time and consumed a fair amount of protein powder. I developed a painful reaction to it. I talked to the vendor. They had never heard of any problems. I shrugged it off. Going forward th
Back in the summer of 2018 I was reaching a pivotal moment in my life. I had had celiac disease and ulcerative colitis since 2006, but the colitis had flared to an 11 and wasn't responding to drugs. Prednisone disrupted my sleep but didn't even begin to take the edge off my colitis pain. Daily I was going into the shower, closing the door, cranking the radio, and literally screaming because I couldn't take the pain anymore. I had talked to my doctor several times about the prospect of colectomy
