 Taenia Solium (Pork tapeworm)
For years I have been trying to find out why my stomach ached and why I was getting awful sores, especially on my face, that seemed to have worm-like "things" that prevented healing. I had gone to a doctor who mis-diagnosed my stomach as pre-ulcer and prescribed medication (which I did not take). As for the skin eruptions, she mis-diagnosed it as "picker's syndrome."
I was not prone to digging into my flesh except to rid myself of the awful threads and hardened globules that prevented healing. I knew something strange was going on. Then I saw a TV segment about others suffering from the same "mysterious" symptoms and heard about a doctor who herself suffered and used the term Morgellon's for lack of any real medical understanding.
On my travels to Latin America, I became aware that I had developed an allergy to pork, lamb, and beef. I had not eaten red meat for many years, and assumed it was because my system had become unfamiliar with it. A tiny bit of beef soup produced an anaphylactic reaction requiring a shot of Epenephrine.
I finally went to a wonderful health practitioner (here in the U.S.) who believed that something unusual was actually happening to me. She began a barrage of REAL tests to determine what was happening inside my body. A stool and saliva sampling revealed that I had amoebas, toxoplasma and a very rare worm called Taenia Solium. Very little information is available in the U.S. about this Pork worm. I began investigating on my own and have learned much about it.
This worm is more common in places like Mexico, but becoming more common in this country all the time. Most medical people have never even heard of it, much less understand its potential harm. It is a very detrimental worm that is not easy to get rid of. It can get outside of the intestines and attach itself to internal organs and the skin. It can even get into the brain and harden, causing seizures, called Neurocysticercosis. One of my symptoms was to have shooting "brain freezes" but an MRI showed no strokes or reason for the zaps. One of the things it sometimes does is to make the person allergic to other proteins so that the person's system will attack those proteins rather than detect and attempt to oust it. Thus, the sudden allergic reaction to red meats that I experienced.
After two rounds of a nasty medicine called Albendazole (Albenza), once for two weeks and then again for a month since the two weeks did not rid him, I finally got him out of my system. The brain freezes stopped and my skin stopped expelling the proglotids (I think they would be called). I have not attempted to test the meat allergies.
A follow up stool and saliva sampling showed them negative in the stool but positive in the saliva, which the doctor and I have not been able to get a clear answer about the meaning of. Many months later, I am about to take another sampling to assure that all the eggs were killed. If not, I will need another round of Albendazole. It is the ONLY medicine available to rid this worm.
I highly recommend that all sufferers undergo this non-invasive stool and saliva test (relatively inexpensive) and have the lab test for this Taenia Solium worm. I certainly am glad to finally have a reason for the awful experience I had for so many years.  | 
April 30th, 2009, 07:46 PM
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