This is a really helpful discussion. I’ve had a parasitic infection since May/June 2023 after travelling overseas for work, and lots of your symptoms & observations ring true to me (disgusting taste and slimy feeling in mouth / spitting up "things” size of sesame seeds or larger / itching around eyes / worm in stool / worm emerging from skin / self-medication with Albendazole Praziquantel "only slows them down" / medical professionals not taking you seriously). So far, a blood test for IgG Antibody to Echinococcus tapeworms (endemic where I was working in Germany), has come back negative. A stool parasite & egg test also came back negative. But the things are obviously still there, as indicated by the picture I’ve uploaded as one of these emerged out of my arm last week (which I could not have been imagining). I have plenty of pictures and samples saved in alcohol. An AI image analysis by Google Lens of pictures I’ve taken of these things has identified Fasciola hepatica from many of my images (no other parasites were identified). I’m working with my state MO state health department to have samples forwarded to the CDC for testing, and hopefully I’ll be able to have a blood test as well.
I have one question for you: Where you ever able to get a definitive positive medical test for Fasciola hepatica? And if so, how did you go about getting this accomplished? . I hope you’re feeling better now, and having better luck getting help from medical professionals.