Mucus in stool w adderall? Stomach cramps? Occasional blood on toilet paper? Anyone?
I did, At first everything was fine, nothing weird ever happened for years. Then one day while driving back to My home state after a short vacation in Los Angeles California, I experienced a really intense immune system "cytokine" response where my elbows, hips, knees and toes suddenly felt like they had extreme gout arthritis attacks out of nowhere, I felt almost like I had flu-like symptoms and had to take Alleve (naproxen) for a couple days so I could walk and drive my car without excruciating pain. Saw amounts of mucus and blood start to increase daily and thought I saw what looked like pinworms. Got some OTC pyrantel pamoate pinworm medicine and took it, no real changes noted, so took the dose of pinworm meds again two weeks later along with eating 3/4 lb of fresh pineapple chunks before going to bed. Woke up about 4am with severe abdominal cramps and diarrhea, and felt like I crapped my intestines inside out. Looked in the toilet bowl at the mess with a bright flashlite, and FREAKED OUT. All hell had broken loose. There was all kinds of yellow-green stringy "tangled vines" material that looked more like vegetation matter, but many of the longer stringy ends were moving and writhing... that was some kind of worm larvae still undergoing development and about a hundred oval shaped flat things, greenish gray in color with lots of miniature leopard-like spots on their backs, and sharp spines sticking out both sides of their bodies, about 2/3;the way back towards the rear end where each had some kind of "tailpipe" discharge tube and or stringy matter, same color as that other tangled vinelike stuff that surrounded them. Many of them had a pair of long downward curving "fangs" sticking out the upper front part of their head-ends. They had a pair of tiny eyes but didn't respond to the flashlight so I guess they're effectively blind despite having eyes. Underneath they had two round sucker holes, ringed with tiny curved teeth, a small diameter one at their front end, and a much larger diameter one in the middle of their bellies. Some were huge, nearly 2" long, 3/4 to 1" wide at their widest point, and about 1/4" to 3/8" thick, with an overall curvature from nose to tail end, thickest in the center of their bodies. The fangs/hooks/barbs and suckers were obviously for latching onto intestinal walls and holding fast there. The front small sucker was their mouth. I saved a few of them in a jar sealed with 91% isopropyl alcohol, and hit the internet to attempt to identify them. The closest match was Fasciolopsis Buski, or more like some kind of armed and weaponized evil cousin of Fasciolopsis.... the large Asian intestinal fluke... a tremotode worm and parasite, easily transmitted by microscopic larval cysts called metacercaria attached to watercress, water chestnut, water bamboo, etc, and very commonplace all over Asia. i had just eaten at two Asian restaurants in Los Angeles in the preceding couple days before the return drive home. I was scared, never had anything like this happen before in my life. I thought I might nd up dying from this. When I fell back asleep after that night of awful discovery, I had a nightmare where I dreamed 10 foot tall creatures like them had me trapped inside a large building with many corridors, rooms, doors, but no exit. They cornered me in a dead end hallway and approached to begin eating me in my dream. I had no weapons and no way to escape. As the first one was about to sink its tooth ringed sucker mouth into my head, all I could do is scream a bloodcurdling scream and begin wetting myself in terror. My own scream woke me up and f course found myself laying in a soaked bed. I don't think my heart was beating as much as it was vibrating, and it took about half an hour for me to calm down and regain my composure and get cleaned up. I called my doctor at the earliest his office opened up, but he was out of town until the following week and I got in on Monday afternoon. I offered to show him my sample but he didn't want me to even carry the jar into his building. He believed me and told me none of the other doctors in town know diddly squat about parasites, a lab test would be worthless since all they do is look for evidence of parasite worms that are typically and historically found in the USA, and if they see anything that is not an egg, larva, or adult from their very short and limited list, it's automatically a negative even if there are huge live worms from a species not on their list, that are dancing around, mooning and flipping their middle fingers to the lab tech looking at them in the microscope. It was a bit disconcerting for my doctor to tell me that the one week crash course I learned via Googling everything I could find about F. Buski and foodborne Asian parasite worms made me more of an expert on them than any physician in this whole town, including him, But he looked up the standard treatment for this species and wrote me a prescription for a course of Praziquantel, and said he was going to try to locate a doctor who knows what the heck they're doing about worms and see if he can arrange a referral, meanwhile keep studying and we'd tackle the problem between the two of us until I was either cured or we found a qualified expert in another city. Nine of the local pharmacies stocked praziquantel and had to order it and have it shipped overnight. It was breathtakingly expensive for six pills.
The praziquantel course made a serious dent in the number of flukes I had because I stopped counting after I crapped out about 500 dead ones. Yes that's right 500. I had a horrible toxification event from the mass die-off and all the poisons and heavy metals they released when they died, busted open and began rotting inside my guts, made me so sick I would fall down when I tried to walk, my equilibrium and balance were nonexistent and I almost went to the hospital for supportive treatments. I thought I was dying. Magnesium Citrate became my favorite drink.... not. I purged and enema'ed the monsters out until my anus was bleeding, my intestines internally waterlogged and the pieces f rotten dead worms kept coming and coming and coming and then came the full moon, and my guts began churning inside. They were back, and a larger army than ever. The official CDC protocol for treatment with praziquantel is a joke. Unfunny, 40 years out of date, and sub-curative. I learned to obtain bulk veterinary deworming meds for much less money, and met someone who has survived and nearly beaten about a dozen different species of worms in a huge combo multilayered hyper-infection that rendered his entire immune system null and void via helminth enzymatic downregulation, and took him to several near-death phases. One of the top parasitologist doctors in the USA looked at him, crossed his arms and rolled his chair to the far other side of the room, said he couldn't help, it was too far advanced, and wrote him a script for enough halcyon pills to kill a horse and told him toward the end those will help him get some sleep but whatever he did, do not take the whole bottle all at once and wash it down with several glasses of whiskey or he'd never wake up and slip into coma, stop breathing and die. The didtor then asked him to leave immediately and never contact him again, and charged him no money for the appointment. The doc gave him the means to EUTHANIZE himself because the worm infestation was that bad. Wow.
Anyway, for myself, I've been fighting these monsters inside me since May of 2019. My wormy pen pal is still alive and has identified and eliminated over a dozen different species of nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, and prehistoric marine species that defy categorization and are still undocumented by the biological/medical world of academics. He caught probably all of them from eating lots of sushi, and they all masked their presence from his immune system detecting and responding to them as pathogens until his entire immune, digestive, CNS and metabolics/endocrine systems collapsed all at once. He told me via email that I didn't catch just a single species from that meal, and probably had some preexisting ones lurking undetected in me for perhaps years. I thought he was 100% bonkers. Nuts from the worms eating into his brain. There was no way I caught more than just the one kind I was seeing. Well it turned out crazy wormy guy was 100% right, the sorry son of a gun knew what he was talking about. There's a certain order you have to eliminate different species of parasite worms by, it has to do with the way they hijack and trick your immune system to stop respinding to them, then stop even detecting them at all, and you won't get your immune system back to fighting strength if you don't eliminate the worm species in the most effective order. And 99% of medical textbooks that attempt to cover protocols for curing some minor multi-worm hyperinfections have got the order wrong. Go talk to a Veterinarian instead of an MD or a DO. DVM's deal with parasites all the time and are educated. MD/DOs prefer to deny parasites all the time and stopped educating themselves about them around the early 1950s because America is too clean, too 1st World, goody two shoes industrialized and technologically advanced to have such 3rd world s**m hole problems like tropical or oceanic zoonotic parasite diseases in people here. Well, my story thus far is I've identified and eliminated Fasciolopsis Buski, Schistosoma Haematobium, Fasciola Hepatica, Good old fashioned American Ascaris Lumbricoides, likely both small and large strongyles, and am still working on Mansonella Ozzardi and some strange marine segmented thing that I cannot identify that looks kinda like a gigantic tardigrade that can be up to 2" in diameter at its head and a foot long, tapering down to a point at its lobster-like segmented tail with overlapping scales on each of the tail segments, rows of leg-like short stubby flipper feet, and two little arms with elbows and three fingered hands or paws on each side of its wierd looking mouth so it can hold its food while eating it. I can't tell if it's a species of nematomorph, tardigradia, crustacean, arthropod, or some kind of evolutionary wierd combo of a little bit or all those. And it seems to be more of a scavenger than a true parasite. I nicknamed it "the dragon" after one night I painfully gave anal birth to c**p out a freshly dead almost whole one with head and first sections of body (thorax) being over 2" in diameter and the tail portion about a foot long and it's tail segments came apart on its way out a a last great act of defiance against me and its sharp edges cut some nice gouges inside my rectum and anus. Somehow the Mansonella have figured out how to use the dragons as an intermediate host instead of their usual small biting gnats so they've been able to do a complete reproductive cycle inside my body and reached hyperinfection levels in my blood vessels and sinuses before I figured out how to begin driving down their numbers. I have some really lovely selfies of one dissolving a hole in my forehead and trying to exit the chemical fires of a combo soup of dewormer meds that don't kill them outright very quickly but slowly decimate them. There are no quick fix targeted meds that whack Mansonella species, they're tough survivors. And somehow the "dragons" which must be some marine species that's zoonotic in me, are able to complete a reproductive cycle just fine on their own...l in fact I think they can lay at least 10k eggs per day that always hatch the day before a full moon and grow from hatchling to small adult in 3 days and small to giant adult in 4-7 more days. I kinda hope the dragons are an unknown species and maybe I'll get to name them. I've got a great name thought up for them, but the moderators wouldn't like me to say it here.
And btw, the so-called "herbal/natural" dewormers alone will never get the job done. They have their effectiveness in the right contexts for some species but are definitely no real cure for parasites on their own. Prescription meds are around 40 years behind the times, and have fallen to resistance by the creatures they once targeted. Some of the species in circulation around the USA today have evolved and adapted a lot since the *bendazoles, ivermectin, praziquantel, etc were created by German and Swiss pharmaceutical companies decades ago. Even the most very newest dewormer drug, tribendimidine, invented by the Chinese over a decade ago is now affected by acquired resistance by too much over-use, just like what's happened to antibiotics, plus as the CDC's own published papers say..... parasite worm species have what's called "Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity".... a fancy way of saying they can adapt and overcome.... and evolve to survive in any changing habitats, sometimes completely overcoming a new drug, or workaround for lack of their favorite intermediate host bug or snail so they can continue to reproduce a full life cycle inside a single human host.... in as little as just TWO generations. They don't need no steenking millions of years to evolve around some new speedbump on their road to continue surviving. They've been evolving for the past 270-540 million years depending on species..... and they already got that stuff figured out a long time ago. All they need to do nowadays when their usual routine is disrupted, is mostly just a little fine tuning to adjust quickly.
Scary thought: these critters have probably already been weaponized and turned into bio-weapons by the USA, Russia, China, and God only knows who else by now. 90% of the foodstuffs imported from Asia thru the Port of Los Angeles just cruise right past US Customs and FDA inspectors.... who are grossly understaffed, undertrained, and unequipped to inspect every crate of watercress, waterchestnuts.... and OMG seafood, coming into this country and landing on supermarket shelves and into restaurant kitchens all across the USA.
Bon Appétit !!!
Oh... I forgot to mention the adderall connection. Adderal, being a stimulant, is a mild poison to parasite worms. It doesn't (usually) kill them, but upsets them.... riles them up, hurts them and makes them very uncomfortable. And when the worms become uncomfortable, they will rapidly make "YOU" uncomfortable. Adderal is useful for smoking out worms from their hiding places and forcingbthem to make their presence known. And no, I don't take it anymore. It worked well to keep my mind focused but it's affect on my little pets sure blew the hell out of any benefit it once had for my attention focusing issues.
And for the demographics about me, I'm female, in my late 50s, advanced science and math degreed, and unemployed/unemployable by medical disability... and I sure wish I had my life and my health back. I do not wish this hell on anyone, but if you suspect you might have caught any of these nasty cooties, be prepared for a typical doctor to just automatically label you as Delusional Obsession of Parasites or whatever, and just blow you off because they're uneducated and inexperienced about dealing with a very real problem now in America's backyard thanks to global trade and travel. Some of the doctors are fully aware of the current state of the parasite problems but are so scared to death of them that they will do anything to get rid of you as fast as possible. It's a total c**p shoot whether you'll find a doctor who's really up to snuff on this very non-traditional health menace that's suddenly been transported right under our noses into our heartland while everyone was completely oblivious to its arrival and impact.