Filariasis = Worms

[nutrinut_bob]

Some of you may have seen other post wherein I've mentioned that there are some type of worms running loose in me.  Little buggers ran into my ears in November and put me in the hospital for 3wks where I was thoroughly misdiagnosed.  Idiots said I was delusional.  Guess what?  That got me a disability!  To keep it, I'm going to be talking about these worms I have a lot!  But seriously folks, I am not delusional.  I think the MRI they did of my head ran them out of there, they must not like having their polarity swapped!  Now they're nested in my hands.  Now, the real reason I started this post.  40% of ticks carry some type of filarial worm!  The adults of some species can grow up to 4in long, but are only .004" in diameter!  Some of the twitches and such that you all get are not because of nerves!  Time to ask you LLMDs to bone up on the subject!  http://www.empirestatelymediseaseassociation.org/filaria/filariasis.htm

[mojogal]

Bob, I am so sorry. Everyday on this and my other support groups I see things that happen to people and I am just surprised that they cane about. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised any more as there are so many things that come about. I really hope you feel better and that you are cured of it soon if not already.
God Bless you with healing thoughts

[nutrinut_bob]

Mojogal, if I have wuchereria bancrofti, I am paying the price of globalization.  For several years I worked alongside men from Yemen, where the disease is endemic.  A person can be asymptomatic, but have microfilaria circulating in their blood.  All it would take is for a mosquito to bite one of them, she'd go lay eggs then.  Then next meal might be me and then I'd be infected.  The book factory I worked at had a good population of mosquitoes.  I got bit several times, swatted many, even swatted one once that had some other person's blood in it.  These Yemenis were the only people I'd been around that were from an endemic area.  But I can't blame them as of yet, it's just a possibility.

[nutrinut_bob]

Thanks Jackie, yes I am doing better, got the two ABX mentioned above, and might get in on a National Institutes of Health Clinical Trail on filariasis.  Jackie, I even had some species of tapeworm, which ticks can also carry.  Not the type that live in your intestine, some type that lived in the peritoneal cavity.  Least that's where their heads were.  Their bodies were "under my skin".  Turned them to jelly back in Nov.  They lived off other species of worms I had, like the feline strongyloides, which I am happy to say are dead too.  (I'll never venture into that cousin's house again!)

Nothing left that I'm aware of except what is in my hands, which I suspect to be wuchereria bancrofti.  Could be some unknown, native to the US, species though.  Maybe the Clinical Trial can help me find out.  The LLMD has been a godsend!  She tells me this particular combination of ABX is also one of her favorites for Lyme.  Nice coincidence.  The Rifampcin should be effective against the mycoplasmal form as it is an anti-TB ABX.  Oh, the wolbachia,  like borrelia, are pleomorphic.

With luck and God's blessing, I'll kill them too.  If not, maybe I am the fellow written of in the Bible, "and his worm shall not die."

[mojogal]

That was all new to me. Yuck

[JackieCalifornia]

Thanks, Bob, I didn't realize there was such an approach to deal with them.  Hope you're doing better.

[nutrinut_bob]

Good news though!  Many of these nematodes depend on a symbiotic bacteria, known as wolbachia.  Antibiotics that are effective against gram negative bacteria, like our borrelia, are also effective against wolbachia, and the worms can't live without them!  Rifampcin and doxycycline in combination is the most effective against the wolbachia.