The fact is I always have & will believe there's a worm(-like) organism involved.

[verba1]

I don't know if it's a foreign organism, something in all of us, or whatever, but when a lesion is "active" there is something beneath the skin around the edge of the sore. It is very much mobile, malleable, elusive, and thus far, impossible to extract without completely mutilating it. I could probably describe it further, but I'm getting mad about it and can't think straight. The nature of it's relationship to the fibrous material in my blood, the creepy crawlies, biting, black dots (micro-fiber balls), etc. is beyond my knowledge, but the thing is there and that's all I have to say about it.

[dragonfly1]

I too agree to your statement!

[niecy]

Originally Posted by verba1

I don't know if it's a foreign organism, something in all of us, or whatever, but when a lesion is "active" there is something beneath the skin around the edge of the sore. It is very much mobile, malleable, elusive, and thus far, impossible to extract without completely mutilating it. I could probably describe it further, but I'm getting mad about it and can't think straight. The nature of it's relationship to the fibrous material in my blood, the creepy crawlies, biting, black dots (micro-fiber balls), etc. is beyond my knowledge, but the thing is there and that's all I have to say about it.

Hi Verba1, good to see you back. I was reading your post earlier and have been searching for documents I have saved on hookworm(I have many, just in no particular order yet). I still have a strong belief that my infection involves this parasite. I don't know if you read it when I first joined the forum, but I was able to have close contact with a professor of parasitology a couple of years ago, off the record. I had a "friend" that went to my doctor(one of the many who think I have DOP) with me and told him who the professor was, and where he worked. Needless to say, he won't communicate with me anymore.

The professor had hundreds of samples from my lesions. He has been a professor for around 40 years, and he is from Jerusalem. He gave me a vial with a "thing" in it that looked like a blonde hair, about 5 or 6 inches long. He told me that day that it "looked" like a horsehair worm to him, although he was aware that they were not supposed to cause humans any harm. He said he had found dozens of them in the scabs. I still have the sample, but sad to say, there is no one I trust to let evaluate it at this point.

That theory doesn't necessarily mean that I believe that is it, or all of it, to say the least. I personally have strong reasons to believe it is hookworm that has caused all or most of my symptoms. I have gotten little white "worm" looking things out of my lesions, in tack(although I have never seen one move). I also have gotten hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny(in diameter)little black things, with what appeared to be check marks on one end of them out of many, many lesions, between a 1/4 and a 1/2" long. This is the major reason for thinking it is hookworm. That and all of my vitamin deficiencies and gastrointestinal problems.

I guess I just wanted to let you know that I am in 100% agreement with you on this involving a "worm" of somekind, even if I am wrong on the identity of it.

I spoke with the doctor at Vanderbilt University back in June. He told me that one of the doctors who has been doing research has identified the parasite, a nematode, falarial species, and that they have also identified the bacteria in the gut of the parasite. They will not release the information until it it published in a peer reviewed science paper.

I hope God has mercy on people if they are stalling for notoriety in this particular illness. Then again, maybe I don't.
I found this link for homeopathic treatment for hookworm, I wondered if anyone on the site has looked into this particular product?

Okwatin.com - About Okwatin

Niecy

[Kritters]

Hey Niecy and Verbal,

I know I must sound like a whacko since almost every time I post, I believe what I have to be something else. It's just that in my case, there are so many things it could be, and until I know....I'm just going to keep trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Jo told us about the cryptostrongylus worm and there is strong evidence to me that it may be what's AMONG my samples. I think, in my case, it is several things. Definitely more than one, and possible stages of each going on.

I began two threads: bio-engineered cotton and bio-engineered food. I know for sure that the cotton fibers under the microscope are in fact what is coming out of my arm as well. I have red and blue among them, usually only in a single strand of each, which could be crypto. I also see what looks like fungus attached to some of the fibers, so I'm thinking for sure I could have fungal gnats as well, but if not the gnats, at least the fungi.

NOW!!! Here's what is interesting at this moment....I just came from the microscope looking at two new specs... this time red and each has the same 'worm' running through it as every thing else in my body. The cellulosal fiber. (could be chitin, TCM!) but earlier, I was getting bitten from the b**tards in my arm, so sprayed peroxide repeatedly which usually shows the spots they are in and stops the biting.

As I wiped, I saw a very fine hair and went to put it under the scope and thought I dropped it and walked away very angry. When I came back to put the red specks under, I actually dropped the 'hair' on the glass, so looked at it. It was composed of segments which looked as if they were grown continually one segment from the last. In the center were actually two ENDS facing each other...UNATTACHED and had that triangular shaped end on each side facing the other....then continued on and when I got to the end, it was all gnarley and had hooks and looked very formidable. So I got a clean slide to keep it and put it on with a small glass ontop. When I moved it toward the scope, though... it disappeared. Must have fallen off. Talk about being PO'd!!!! grrrrr.

So now I'm reading your posts about the worm. Well, boys and girls... here's another thing Kritters can say she has as well.

Can't WAIT to find out what else lurks in this body of mine.

The crypto....a new kind of worm.

xoxo
Kritts

[RaeinCo]

I know there is a worm thingy involved. I've had them jump & run from me

[RaeinCo]

And I'm not talking about my secondary parisite infection, it's gone.

[verba1]

here's a sketch of a lesion I did. The size of "the worm casing area" is exaggerated. They aren't usually so thick in comparison to the diameter of the lesion.
Also, I wanted to mention, the worms have a variety of lengths but vary within a range of 5 to 50% of the lesion's circumfrence.exag'dlesiondrk.jpg

I think I succeeded in making it an attachment? ...we'll see...
anyway
cheers
-v

ps- cool! it worked! click on it for full size. neat stuff. i just think electricity is neato!

[niecy]

Hi Verba, how are you tonight? I was looking at your picture of the lesion. I am wondering what the small round things inside the lesion are?

Also I wondered if the "worm" in the lesion is actually under the edge of the wound, with a tough raised scab over it?

Niecy

P.S. Good drawing by the way!!

[verba1]

the round things are the tiny white nubs (for lack of better name). I don't know for sure what they are below the surface - worms, cocoons, other? - all I see are little white nubs - as if a worm were slightly sticking it's head out of the flesh.

The "worm" is beneath the edge of the lesion. In the picture, the paisley shape is the skin covering the 'worm'. Actually, the distinction between the skin covering the worm and the surrounding skin is not so dramatic, though you can see a difference. Also, the skin covering is generally scar tissue, not normal skin. The scar tissue is all the way around the lesion as well. The scab which forms over the primary circle each day is indeed super tough. Much more resistant to penetration and tears. It is also more firmly connected to the skin. So the "worm" is not actually under the superscab, but adjacent/around it.

[dragonfly1]

More off the face.....the last picture has sooooo many colors........omg