You sure came up to speed quickly on this one.

It's an obvious thing once a threshold is crossed. Right out in plain view, it is.

I try to hold back about this. No need to it seems.
More and more people are wising up about it. And toughening up, getting angry. These two are necessary components of Fighting Spirit, imo.

It's a wake up call, a real eye opener.

Things can't be the same, as a particular sense of innocence is gone forever.

A bit more about s.s. for those others reading.
It is endemic to sub-tropical and tropical areas around the globe.

With the increased globalization and the race to get produce for le$$ and le$$, less and less produce from the U.S. is in stores and more and more from those areas in which s.s. is endemic.

S.S. has a free-living form. Meaning it can live away from a host.
It can reproduce generations as in plural in this free living state.
And it loves dirt.
The dirt that produce grows in.

Remember the post above about the 65% contamination in produce?

Extrapolate that scenario to produce coming in from endemic areas and people are likely being infected with s.s., and in areas where this was not previously endemic, and have no clue what happened to them.

If fact, they many never.
Unless it goes into hyperinfection/dessimination.

username7414,
For what it is worth, humans have been living with these things since time began for humans.
In some areas of the world where it is more of a problem than others it is very interesting to look at standard diets.
Herbs and spices and foods.
Huge anti- parasite spread.
Huge.

The things I'm fighting have been cobbled together.
Yet they still respond to those diet substances that have held parasites in check to a degree in countries hip to them for centuries.

All is not lost.
It is a battle.
There is now knowledge that are bodies are not entirely our own.

Were they ever?

Perspectives shift. Mandated. We are not so gullible anymore.
We are aware that those who are supposed to know.. Don't.
There is a cascade effect when taking a look at all the sub-systems/authorities in the System As Large.

We have been forced to.... grow up a bit concerning some fundamentals we were unaware of.

More and more I try to look at the cup as half full.
Silver linings in the midst of it all.

People have survived this in the past.
They are surviving this right now.
And will survive this in the future.

There may be any number of diseases these things cause that we are unaware of.

So be it.

It's all part of Living On The Planet.

I more and more tend to look at it as part of being in a trance and waking up out of it.

Things were not, are not, what they seemed.

Congratulations!

If nothing else, you should have the peace of mind because now the doctors can't let you go until they cure you of your diagnosis.

If they don't fulfill that duty, you get them for negligence?

You are lucky to get a doctor who at least listened to you. I wouldn't be quick to bad mouth this doctor. I understand the frustrations of repeat lab tests, but they have to base their treatment on something. They can't go entirely on your word. Think about it from their perspective - if they don't get a confirmation and say they prescribe a lot of albendazole and you end up messing your liver, you would be able to sue them for prescribing you medications that weren't warranted by a lab result. I don't think any doctor would be willing to lose their license over this. If I were you, I would be very patient with this doctor. Since he isn't from US, he probably understands the shortcomings of P&O test.

I wonder if that or something similar is what causes people around here to slap at arms and legs because it feels like bugs are biting them but there's nothing there. I forget the term that's used to reference it, but i see/hear it all the time.