several yrs ago I got diarrhea on a trip to China. After yr self-med, diet, went to dr who guessed Entameba histolytica despite no pos. lab, got metronidizol - got ALMOST well, just couldn't eat everything. BUT in Apr 2006, SUDDENLY relapsed - had colonoscopy and test showing no pathogens BUT excessive B. hominis, considered to be harmless!! My present dr. (my old one left) in this small town, Roseburg, OR., knows nothing about B. hominis, has prescribed no Antibiotics . I have tried all alternative therapies, diets, cleanses, supplements, hypnosis tapes, more metronidizol (left over), expensive rifaximin (per SIBO theory, prescribed by my request from DR. relative) a few remissions, especially after elemental diet (SIBO/Pimentel). None of my fellow sufferers will be surprised to learn my quality of life plunged, I can never dine out in restaurants, hike, etc. Well, GOOD NEWS! For dental implants, I took 500 mg amoxicillin twice/day, got more normal - relapsed when course over. fortunately, I have a bottle of doxycycline given by pharmacist friend yrs ago - imagine, I'm taking that and again, better! I don't know how long to take, also am taking acidophilus perls. Can't seem to find non-prescr. Iodoquinol, recommended to go with Doxycycline. Am searching for non-prescr. Secnidazole. I don't think there should be ANY drug laws interfering with adult use.

I have had blasto for about 6 years now. What started as pain and diagnosed as IBS, ended up showing that I had Helicobacter. I took something at the time and got rid of many of the sytems. However these started again and after getting what seemed like a hundred tests, found out I had Blasto. My doctor tried many combinations of herbal based treatments, however after testing again, I still had it. My naturopath suggetsed Colonics. I have had 6 colonics and the symtoms improved dramatically however have since come back. She also suggested a herbal fluid called Miracle-Mineral-Supplement that you have with water, but I have not tried this yet as it can take at least 6 months for any change.

My doctor prescribed me the coktail you mentioned and the dosage is very strong. Three kinds - 2, three times a day and the other twice a day. I did this for 3 days only and vomited for about 5 hours straight and bad cramping. The doctor has since suggested to just try the Notazoxanide on its own for at least three days, once my stomach is a little settled. I am yet to try this.

Throughout all of it I have experienced, hot flushes, anxiety, nausea, aching back, legs and hands, severe bloating, constipation, stomach cramps, eye infections. I have been off dairy, wheat, sugar, caffiene and alcohol and these do relieve symtoms, but Im running out of things to eat and enjoy.

Ill fill you in when I get tested after just trying the Nitazoxnide. I am not big on Antibiotics and have tried to avoid them my whole life.

Have u ever heard of stool transplant. It is a treatment for cdiff that will not resolve with regular therapies. Check it out. I saw it done in hospital by a gastroenterologist.

Hi.

I'm on the last of ten days of the triple therapy, as per the CDD and badbugs website. Actually my gastroenterologist threw in an anti-candida drug as well, as that was all my tests showed, but I've got otherwise classic blasto symptoms, tending very much towards the constipation side of things. I've been suffering for ten years, round figures. I think I caught it (whatever it actually is) from drinking untreated mountain spring water that I used to collect, telling myself that it was better for me than all that nasty chlorine treated town water. Boy, was I wrong about that! The city council, to their credit, put up a sign at the spring stating that the water had consistently failed tests for fecal contamination, which I blithely assumed meant the occasional bit of possum poo. The impact of the vast numbers of human visitors to the mountain top never really entered my thoughts.

Tried every voodoo trick of mainstream and alternative medicine ever conceived to get my bowels moving properly again, to no avail. I got to the point where I needed several enemas daily to avoid the pressure in my abdomen from preventing me from sleeping and making me generally uncomfortable. Discovered that the term "weird shit" has a literal meaning.

Finally found badbugs and Jackie recommended a great Gastro who knows his shit, both in the literal and metaphoric sense.

Day one of the anti-biotics laid me horizontal, but only temporarily. Just a bit woozey. After around 4 days I passed a stool with an ease of which I have been unaccustomed to for many years. I've cruised through the rest of the course but today, the last day, I've felt ill throughout the day. I've also come out in pink spots all over my body. No idea what's going on there, but I'm hoping that it indicates that the blasto or whatever it is that has been ruining my life for most of the last decade has finally bitten the big one and is now being disposed of by my biological garbage collectors. I certainly hope so. It couldn't have happened to a nicer bug. More than happy to cop a few spots and feel a bit off colour if that is the case.

I'm not sure how old this post is but I will answer it anyway for anyone else interested in the subject. My son was struck down with chronic diarrhea a few months ago and after extensive tests was finally diagnosed with Blasto and Dientamoeba. All our research pointed to the CDD in Sydney for the triple drug therapy and Jackie from Bad Bugs pointed us to a Dr Froomes in Melbourne who would act as a go between. There were actually four drugs in the treatment for my son at a cost of around $180 and were couriered to us from Sydney. The treatment was quite brutal and completely obliterated his natural gut flora despite him taking the special probiotics suggested. His tongue turned black and he was very ill. It has been about 2 weeks since he finished the treatment and when asked if he feels better he replies "I feel different but not well". Personally I think there is something else muddying the water here and I suspect it may be a Strongyloide parasite. My daughter and I tested positive for Blasto and Dientamoeba but have no symptoms. It was recommended by Dr Froomes that we too take the therapy but I really don't want to stir up something best left alone. I have sent to the US for Humaworm and will give that a try. We have tried sooo many different things which I don't have time to outline at the moment. Anyway I hope this helps someone.

Hi everyone,

Like someone else in this forum, I am also waiting for Nitazoxanide from mexico - medsmex.com - it takes about a month to receive, considering I live in Canada and am getting someone to recieve it for me in NY. I ordered the max amount, 8 packs of 6 pills, so 24 days worth.

I presently have on hand, Metronidazole (750mg x 2 for 10 days) and Paromomycin aka Humatin (500mg x 3 for 7 days). Haven't taken those yet. The doctor I saw recently said the 3 top treatments are Metronidazole, Paromomycin and Nitazoxanide. Nitazoxanide is not available in Canada unfortunately, so needed to special order from abroad. Metro and Paromomycin are actually supposed to be used together for amoebiasis, according to the Merck Manual - http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/intestinal-protozoa/amebiasis

There is an anecdotal account of someone using Metro, Paro, and Nitaz. together http://www.blastocystis.net/search/label/nitazoxanide

Additionally, there is an anecdotal account of a man named Mike Hodgens using 30 days worth of just Nitazoxanide to kill off Blasto after two separate occasions of him ingesting contaminated waters, several years apart. https://adietitiangonepaleo.wordpress.com/nasty-parasites/

The dosage is very important. Too many people take Nitazoxanide for just 3 or 10 days by itself, and that is apparently not enough. Studies document people taking 14 days, at least, of just Nitazoxanide, to erradicate Blasto with a 86% success rate at this dosage, much better success than Metronidazole which is only 34% and who knows if those are false negatives being recorded too soon after treatment. I myself took Metronidazole and tested a false negative 3 weeks after (too soon), but retested as positive 4 months later. Metro only kills the adults, but not the cysts. The cysts go into defense mode in the presence of Metro.

Likewise, many doctors, like my doctor included, didn't know that Metronidazole is no good unless you pair it with Paromomycin. The reason being for the combination of drugs and 'triples' is because the extraintestinal drugs like Metronidazole, which are absorbed into the body and blood stream, combat the adults and any extraintestinal infections. The lumen-specific drugs like Paromomycin are not absorbed by the body at all, and remain in the colon, and they are good at killing the cysts, something which Metronidazole is very bad at doing, by itself. It seems that they don't realize this, and they also don't prescribe a long enough dose of Nitazoxanide if used by itself. It seems that Nitazoxanide kills both adults and cysts, but it needs a longer time to do so.

So if you are going to combine drugs, make sure you are combining the right ones that take care of the adults, as well as the cysts. And make sure you are taking them for long enough to do the job.

Hi everyone,

Like someone else in this forum, I am also waiting for Nitazoxanide from mexico - medsmex.com - it takes about a month to receive, considering I live in Canada and am getting someone to recieve it for me in NY. I ordered the max amount, 8 packs of 6 pills, so 24 days worth.

I presently have on hand, Metronidazole (750mg x 2 for 10 days) and Paromomycin aka Humatin (500mg x 3 for 7 days). Haven't taken those yet. The doctor I saw recently said the 3 top treatments are Metronidazole, Paromomycin and Nitazoxanide. Nitazoxanide is not available in Canada unfortunately, so needed to special order from abroad. Metro and Paromomycin are actually supposed to be used together for amoebiasis, according to the Merck Manual - http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/intestinal-protozoa/amebiasis

There is an anecdotal account of someone using Metro, Paro, and Nitaz. together http://www.blastocystis.net/search/label/nitazoxanide

Additionally, there is an anecdotal account of a man named Mike Hodgens using 30 days worth of just Nitazoxanide to kill off Blasto after two separate occasions of him ingesting contaminated waters, several years apart. https://adietitiangonepaleo.wordpress.com/nasty-parasites/

The dosage is very important. Too many people take Nitazoxanide for just 3 or 10 days by itself, and that is apparently not enough. Studies document people taking 14 days, at least, of just Nitazoxanide, to erradicate Blasto with a 86% success rate at this dosage, much better success than Metronidazole which is only 34% and who knows if those are false negatives being recorded too soon after treatment. I myself took Metronidazole and tested a false negative 3 weeks after (too soon), but retested as positive 4 months later. Metro only kills the adults, but not the cysts. The cysts go into defense mode in the presence of Metro.

Likewise, many doctors, like my doctor included, didn't know that Metronidazole is no good unless you pair it with Paromomycin. The reason being for the combination of drugs and 'triples' is because the extraintestinal drugs like Metronidazole, which are absorbed into the body and blood stream, combat the adults and any extraintestinal infections. The lumen-specific drugs like Paromomycin are not absorbed by the body at all, and remain in the colon, and they are good at killing the cysts, something which Metronidazole is very bad at doing, by itself. It seems that they don't realize this, and they also don't prescribe a long enough dose of Nitazoxanide if used by itself. It seems that Nitazoxanide kills both adults and cysts, but it needs a longer time to do so.

So if you are going to combine drugs, make sure you are combining the right ones that take care of the adults, as well as the cysts. And make sure you are taking them for long enough to do the job.

Hi, I am on day 7 of triple therapie again blasto.hominis. if you want to know who do I feel, please
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