Question: I opened a case four days ago and got an answer but I was busy and did not get a chance to follow up on it. Maybe you can look at my previous case for additional information. By my description the doctor on EBIX felt I did have worm over load including the lung symptoms from larvae migration. I did indeed poop out three large amounts of long white worms five years ago and the symptoms all stopped, but I was never properly treated for it and I have been having symptoms again. The doctor here on EBIX suggested that I do no more treatment with Albendazole since it hasn't responded but that I need to have stool examination and get sure determination of what is going on. But the odd thing is that even though I did poop out all those worms, only a month or two before that and in fact on all stool sample tests it is ALWAYS negative for ova. When I took Albendazole for the first time a couple months ago the symptoms were helped that day but it came rushing back and I also had perfectly drawn little curling worm lines under the flesh of my penis glans! but they disappeared by the next day and then the next day a white matter in the shape of a curving line erupted through the surface of the glans! It certainly looked like little worms were birthed and then died under the skin. But with all of this I have never had a positive stool sample my local doctors simply will not entertain that I am struggling with some kind of deeper nematode infection. I will say that I never have been as constantly sick as before I evacuated the large amounts of worms five years ago, but as I said the symptoms have been returning for the last couple years and I seem to go through bought of the "electrical" feeling all over that wakes me up at night and also some of the lung issues. Could I have a worm outside my digestive track because I chased them out with the diatomaceous earth that I used to "cure" me the first time. And outside my digestive track maybe the eggs are not following so successfully the cycle through the lungs and voice box and back to the gut but are kind of floating in my system? NONE of this will my local doctor entertain.

Thank you Dr. Biswas. I am so tired of these difficulties and I am open to the approach that I am obsessed as this is what my doctors on this end are telling me. It is hard to square this with the symptoms that I am having, however, I am also moving forward on stress management approach with my doctor and he is having me review two different anti-depressants so we can choose one and also counseling.

..particularly hard to square physical symptoms that i have seen (re the worm lines under glans and then bursting through).... but as I said, I am also moving forward through with stress management approach. Thank you again.

Dr. Biswas, what about visceral larva migrans? My question is why am I having the symptoms that I had before I pooped out the large amount of worms (that is not up for interpretation, that did happen). And what about seeing the clear purple worm lines under my glans flesh that then a day later burst through the flesh?

Thank you Dr. Biswas. Your information has been helpful. I will let the clock run some before closing this in case I have another question, but if I do not I will close it in the next day or two. Thank you.

Dear Dr. Biswas: Worms that came into my toilet were never properly diagnosed, so it is probably wrong for me to state that I had ascariasis. They were however long ribbons, white, and each time they were in the toilet in succession in one week I foolishly flushed them downtime toilet because I was angry at finally seeing real evidence of the symptoms I had suffered for so long, even shortly after I had negative stool samples with an infectious disease doctor. But there was no mistakin that they were worms, they were clean white and very visible each time ribboning back and forth locked in a little piece of fecal matter and they acted dead.
The striking matters in this case are that: I suffered from cyclical symptoms for more than 20 years that no doctor would recognize. It went on and on so long that I became self determined that it was worms. I found online diatomaceous earth, food grade, and ate it until I was literally "shitting bricks" of sand for almost five weeks. On the third week my symptoms and constitution cleared miraculously and on the 4th week I passed all those worms. All this after NEVER having a positive stool sample. My good health and cessation of all the symptoms and including the constant lung and throat sickness ALL cleared up. I continued to take lower dose regularly of diatomaceous earth which with also not properly treating may have chased any remaining infestation deeper into hiding or out of my gut and into elsewhere because after 2.5 years I started to have the symptoms start slowly back. Now five years later I am suffering again, again negative stool samples. The attacks are different though in that the horrible gripping feeling is not so centered around my lungs, heart and the constant colds have not returned. But the night attacks with the same very distinct weird numbing electrical feeling all over is back and the ear ringing, and it's always worse at night. I feel that I need an infectious disease doctor to sit down and truly talk to me and hear my story that started with severe sexual addiction in San Francisco and New York City in the 1970's and 80's and then my consequential health problem that has lasted all this time. But in XXXXXXX the infectious disease doctors will not do this. They will not listen to me to tell my story, they just review my medical record and refuse to see me...