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can't get rid of pinworms
I can't get rid of pinworms. Have had them for 8 years now. I have taken many prescriptions and over the counter meds and home remedies. Now my rectum hurts. Need advice on getting rid of these horrible things. I'm fed up!!
Interesting. Where do you find this certain Albenza? I hope you are still pinworm free. Please let us know!
Typos from phone *cure. Also, I'm curious. When releasing gas, can the eggs fly out?? Has anyone else every thought that? I had them in my ears and after using alcohol I no longer feel the itching in there. I use alcohol with paper towels and gloves when wiping. Cleaning everything! Enemas, with Blackwalnut, wormwood, and cloves really helped me too. I've seen them come out in my stool this morning. I recently bought 10% sulfur soap and I really think it's helping with anything on my skin too. I get the crusties around my eyes but I think that's just from me being so exhausted. I can't say that I've seen any in my eyes other than, come to think of it, I would notice circular things attached to my eyelids that were skin colored? Let's see, what else. Someone mentioned feeling zings or stinging in the skin and I have felt sensations in my SCALP, sometimes in my mouth but I no longer feel them there and I have felt weird sensations throughout my body! I don't know if that's related or not but definitely worth mentioning. Overall, I am getting better yes, but I am not cured. I will purchase tea tree oil this week and start that tea as well. I will keep you all posted and let's stay strong!!! We are not alone and prayer really does help.
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So in my case, I've never had worms in my eyes, ears, sinuses, etc. etc. But I would see them crawling around my anus when I first realized I had them. Two rounds of Albenza fixed me this time (why Ivermectin worked the first time and not the second, or why it took 4 doses of Albenza to kill them instead of only 2, I do not know why). During my second infection, I went up the chain of doctors - I visited my primary, who sent me to a gastroenterologist who did a colonoscopy and gave me more Albenza. I think the second round of Albenza fixed me finally but I wasn't satisfied. Never once were they positively ID'd. No matter how many stool samples I gave they never found anything, I still don't know for sure to this day that they were actually pinworms. So, even though the itching and squirming stopped, I made an appointment with an infectious disease specialist who said he got cases like mine once every couple years and a few rounds of Albenza usually did the trick. However, he usually saw the patients after they were cured of the worms, THINKING they still had them. The mind is a very, very powerful thing. He said his patients would still "feel" the wiggles but were indeed actually cleared of the infection - which is what was happening to me when I saw him. Once you've had the infection a couple times, it really does mess with your mind. I was in a dark place for a while thinking I'd never get rid of them and was thanking the good Lord I was in a long distance relationship at the time so I could keep to myself and keep it a secret. I believe I cleared them in March, but to this day however many months later I still get the occasional - 'what was that??' feeling and have to remind myself I haven't seen or genuinely felt that creepy crawly sensation since then, but I still check in the mirror. I do worry that they'll be back in the future... I don't know where I got them the first or second time, but if that's the case I'll be ready. I have a spare Albenza and I can typically see them in my stool once the medicine has killed them, I also have spare stool sample containers so I can finally know I'm sending them a positive sample they can ID. So knowing I have a plan of attack is also soothing. All in all.. none of the other remedies I tried worked by themselves... not the wormwood and other tinctures, not the papaya smoothies, etc. But I was honestly depressed and couldn't get myself to eat only fruits and vegetables (I also had them over Christmas so the food available to me wasn't ideal either when I was home with family) so maybe all of it is worth a go if you can really do it well. I think mine was a case where I needed to see someone who could treat me with medication. Stay strong! Go to the doctor, show them the worms! Get them ID'd so they can dose and treat you correctly or aggressively if need be! I know it may cost a lot of money, but being worm free to me was worth the doctor and special visit bills.
I hope the pin worm researchers take a closer look again at eradicating the pinworm issue once and for all. Much have a read on ways of "killing the worm" inside the gut before it lays eggs. But how about attacking the eggs to with a cream or solution that specifically "burns" the pinworm egg/s before or after the are laid ? The logic obviously is to stop the next generation of PW's. I am using some "hot creams" at the moment where I fell the itch. I can get some sleep now at the 2.30 am times when it is so predictable, my whole world and living is "night-shift" because these things will keep me awake till 5am sometimes. I will shower at 3am in the mornings to to wash away the eggs if I feel there has been a lay. The thing is, I use a torch, I am embarrassed having the lights on that can be seen by the neighbors if I have 4am showers or baths. May I also add, if these PW are now as epidemic as we have read these days, and not much was said about them 20 years ago, the question is, has our food chain or agriculture become so radically modified, that the natural enzymes in our foods no longer have the same potency when digestion occurs, that we are lacking "power" in our immune systems ?
I am undergoing a second treatment of Albenza. That's 8 pills in total, 2 weeks apart. I just took 6, four days ago. I still feel them. I am getting my liver checked soon bc we know how harsh it is on your liver. I hope you are doing the same StayPositive, bc we aren't suppose to be taking it back to back but I know we are fighting so we must do what we have to do and take that chance. I would say to really investigate those feelings you still get because like my case, these 'worms' more like threads, can go undetected. From this whole forum, I am starting to believe that reinfection is what is causing us to be unable to completely rid ourselves. I am considering (other than OCD cleaning) these eggs get left in the anus and then hatch and travel back to mate and multiply. What about wearing a tampon with some sort of concoction to kill all the eggs?? Also, in my previous comment, if they aren't laying eggs outside the anus, then are they laying them inside??? Does anybody have a theory on this?
PinWexterminater yes, something is way wrong with this. Doctors do not understand the severity in our cases. It sounds like children are able to treat it much easier than adults. That's kind of interesting don't you think? You would think it would be the other way around as kids don't know and touch their moths eyes and noses. I'm going to try zinc oxide on a tampon and shove it in there. Any suggestions to add to it would be greatly appreciated. Let's fight together!!
The doctors always ask - "have you been out of the country?" But what many do not consider, is that there has been a great deal of immigration into this country lately. So other countries, are in effect, visiting us here! This, may be the source of the upswing in the pinworm epidemic. These visitors, may be carriers.
I think I have come close to solving the pinworm issue. In my case I tried everything. Then it dawned on me. Here we are trying to eradicate the existing pinworm before it lays her eggs. But why not attack the eggs first. Because if one eradicates the eggs at the source, that is where the itch is, there will eventually be no "next generation" of PW.
This is how happened.
Think of making a cake, you use flour and eggs, right ?
Well, simply use medicated talcom powder where you have the itch. Rub the powder, knowing very well it is absorbing the PW eggs, and ridding the itch.
It took about 3 months, but eventually I no longer have these itches. And if I do get the occasional itch, I just use medicated talcom power. There is no pain, there is no discomfort and it can be used anywhere anytime.
Ofcourse keep up the double attack on the current live PW with whatever you think may work. But to me the logical thing is to attack the eggs. If you researched how the PW is, they lay the eggs at the early hours of the morning. This is a "smart worm" because it is in tube with our bowel cycles, and it is during the early hour of the morning when our bowls are in the eradication cycle. In other words, we pooh in the mornings most times, right ? Well these PWs "know" stuff and that is why they take the easiest route, during the mover of exit of our bowls. All the female wants to do is lay her eggs with a glue, ( the stings ) so her babies can breath. Then 4 hour later they hatch, all 10 to 20 thousand of them and the cycle begins again.
That is why it takes about 3 month for this to eradicate the PWs. Millions of them trying to lay a new generation. But the powder stops it because it will absorb the eggs and the fluids and therefore no next generation.
Eventually the majority of the worms are gone.
So, if you itch, use powder and rub as if you are mixing eggs and flour !!
The other thing I found by accident, I was at work and got the itch. My hands had just cleaned some thing with kerosene. I had to scratch there and then with damp kersosene on my hands. Well, to my amazment, it seems all those eggs never got the oxygen, they got fumed. The itch never returned for a few days, seems to work it's way up and fumigated a few live PW's. However this is not a cure, it was just an accidental discovery. If you have sensitive skin then maybe don't try this. However, the main point is, attack the eggs before they hatch, and there will not be a next generation of PW's. Sounds simple and logical to me. Thanks for reading.
This is how happened.
Think of making a cake, you use flour and eggs, right ?
Well, simply use medicated talcom powder where you have the itch. Rub the powder, knowing very well it is absorbing the PW eggs, and ridding the itch.
It took about 3 months, but eventually I no longer have these itches. And if I do get the occasional itch, I just use medicated talcom power. There is no pain, there is no discomfort and it can be used anywhere anytime.
Ofcourse keep up the double attack on the current live PW with whatever you think may work. But to me the logical thing is to attack the eggs. If you researched how the PW is, they lay the eggs at the early hours of the morning. This is a "smart worm" because it is in tube with our bowel cycles, and it is during the early hour of the morning when our bowls are in the eradication cycle. In other words, we pooh in the mornings most times, right ? Well these PWs "know" stuff and that is why they take the easiest route, during the mover of exit of our bowls. All the female wants to do is lay her eggs with a glue, ( the stings ) so her babies can breath. Then 4 hour later they hatch, all 10 to 20 thousand of them and the cycle begins again.
That is why it takes about 3 month for this to eradicate the PWs. Millions of them trying to lay a new generation. But the powder stops it because it will absorb the eggs and the fluids and therefore no next generation.
Eventually the majority of the worms are gone.
So, if you itch, use powder and rub as if you are mixing eggs and flour !!
The other thing I found by accident, I was at work and got the itch. My hands had just cleaned some thing with kerosene. I had to scratch there and then with damp kersosene on my hands. Well, to my amazment, it seems all those eggs never got the oxygen, they got fumed. The itch never returned for a few days, seems to work it's way up and fumigated a few live PW's. However this is not a cure, it was just an accidental discovery. If you have sensitive skin then maybe don't try this. However, the main point is, attack the eggs before they hatch, and there will not be a next generation of PW's. Sounds simple and logical to me. Thanks for reading.
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