Parasites

Have u found any help? I've been going on 4 yrs also and I've seen 6 different drs at Mayo and they just dismiss me. I think they just don't want to deal with it. I begged my primary for the medicine albendazole cuz I've tried everything else without a prescription and he wouldn't. They are in every part of my body now and getting to end of dealing with this alone. I have probably 1000 pics and are pretty disturbing. I don't know how I've lasted thru this without losing it totally. I am going to a different emergency ward in the next couple days. Sick of trying to be my own surgeon and wearing gloves 24/7. I have found I was contaminating my own food by touching it with bare hands. I will try and let u know what happens.

Anyone have River Blindness in Southeastern US?

I have been dealing with a disabling and debilitating Parasitic ailment for more than 5 years now.

Started with tremendous hair loss and a scab on the outer corner of my left eye that couldn’t be removed. Also, Visible bugs Deep under dermis. And darker colored hairs than my natural hair color around these insects deep under skin. Have developed leopard spots and thin crepey looking skin on lower limbs on arms and legs.

As I am ONLY on Medicaid, and already on all types of meds due to seizures and resulting bone fractures, I have been prejudged as a drug seeker or someone with delusory parasitosis.

Specialist after specialist do not seem to have enough empathy to actually LISTEN to me. Much less diagnose me and help heal me properly. They will not view my thousands of pix of the striped large insects that are ejected in my stool (only during certain cycles of life stages.

I’m under age 50, female & Ive had part of my lung removed and have Glaucoma in one eye already. Not to mention several broken metatarsal bones in one foot. My teeth are now falling out. They are black!

I’ve resorted to taking canine versions of Ivermectin matching my weight every 4-5 months with Gawd Awful side effects.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to route my way thru this medical world, to find a tropical neglected disease specialist, an epidemiologist, who’s willing to diagnose me and properly eliminate the adult worms? I need at least 4-6 weeks of Doxycycline to eliminate the adult worms.

I am ready to end my life over this bloody horror & travesty of inaccurate & indifferent medical specialists.

Please—I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I WANT MY LIFE BACK!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you 🙏🏻

They not only look like hair..... They look like filmentous hyphae or dog hookworms. Or even filmentous anctinobacteria. There is a lot more to it. Mine started in July. I still can't even catagorize them as ameabo, works, fungus, or large bacteria. Craziest thing I've ever seen

Hey I’m also going through this for the last two years. Many doctors visits with no closer only to be told it’s in my head bruh this is hard to deal with while being a husband and father of 5 . This thing is real small flakes or hairs come out your hair pours itchy bitting crawling . There multiple colors flakes Red blue black also small seeded droplets I leave behind . It’s like it eat away at the skin leaving sores and always active running through the hair of your body . I really need help I been dealing with but I notice it’s only getting worse . Since going through this my vision getting blurry do to that small tracing I find around my eyes known as eye floaters. I’m to young for this I just want a fighting chance. I’m not crazy or a gook now lemme share this I order red iPhone 6 case believe me this phone case was fading leaving red stringy hair that I thought was fiberglass but couldn’t be cause case was plastic. I swear on my grandma I started feeling this symptoms . This was 7/2019 till this day I’m going through my kids or suffering from this also my 7 year old leg so scab up it don’t go away . I scared because people around me or breathing this micro small fiber and I do get hair cuts and it gross because the public don’t know .. Please and need help begging the cdc medical doctor help .

Hello @wendybelike and welcome to Connect.

I can hear the concern in your post about parasites. I tried researching a bit about parasites that resemble hair and it does seem that there are some out there, but not being a medical professional myself I do not feel comfortable sharing information from sources I am unfamiliar with.

I have also included Mayo Clinic's page on Infectious Disease that also includes a link to request an appointment and a second opinion should you seek one, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/infectious-diseases/symptoms-causes/syc-20351173.

If you feel comfortable sharing, could you tell us a bit more about what you think they are? You mention they look like hair, are they causing irritation on the scalp? You also mention that doctors have not been of any help, did they run any tests or take any samples?

I’ve been having sharp pains in my mid abdominal region. Usually I know this means I will have loose stools. My stool was very watery. As I was about to flush I noticed some floaters. I collected a few to get a better look. I do not recall eating any food or substance that would be this small or with similar characteristics. HOWEVER, recently cooked ground venison that was prepackaged. I cooked it well and I inspected it before cooking too. My boyfriend says he is fine and he eats what I eat. What could this possibly be? And where should I drop off my specimen so I can r/o parasites? The white little beads are soft and the contents inside are white. I feel like these are way too big to be parasitic eggs but I’ve never had them before. Please help.