You probably have stongyloides stericolis.

It does sound like strongyloides. You could ask your doctor for an Elisa blood test for strongyloides.

I would take ivermectin. You can buy pills online or you can go to the farm/feed store and buy tubes of ivermectin for horses. Research poster ICU's posts for a strongyloide protocol. The posts are very explicit in every detail you need to get started. The protocol lists more than one med. You can, however, just take ivermectin once a day at bedtime on an empty stomach. A human dose is the same as a horse dose, weight-wise.

You could read the posts by Sharkman as he also has strongyloides, as do I.

Hi,

Interesting you should bring that up.

I really wasn't suffering from any similar symptoms (or so I thought) so I was inspired to do some research, a little experiment. I've had cuticle problems forever. Nervous habit. I get a teeny piece of dry skin sticking up so I pick at it incessantly and end up ripping it off then it bleeds and scabs. If I get my nails done, they look great until the manicure gets old in about 5 days (imagine the germ orgy in salons - gross). Additionally I am a compulsive nail cutter. Beyond the wick. There is no white in my nails.

I read your post and then, I googled. Pinworm eggs are deposited under fingernails & toenails, and pinworms think cuticles & wick areas are cozy places to hang out in, so they will live there. No one teaches us that do they? We are told to just do tape tests.

So, anyway, no you are not crazy.

I decided to experiment. "Don't try this at home," unless doctor after doctor blows you off, are essentially useless, demeaning, and the equivalent of lighting your cash on fire.

1. Bought Pin-X after I checked to make sure it wouldn't react with my other medications & took as directed. It paralyzes pinworms. Not sure about other helminths. Also got ethyl alcohol based hand sanitizer gel.

2. Waited roughly 12 hours.

3. In meantime, sterilized nail cutters & tweezers as best I could with home cleaning agents since no access to an autoclave.

4. Identified targets. Depending on how well the Pin-X worked, and if I chemically-provoked them with the gel, they signaled "mayday" to each other and likely tried to escape thus revealing themselves so I could clearly differentiate them from cornified/keratinized cuticle, skin, or nail - simply because that white thing wasn't there an hour or two ago. Holding onto it did not hurt. If I was holding on to a piece of myself, it hurt.

5. Grasped at base with dull tweezers. I DID NOT PULL THEM TO AVOID RIPPING THE BODY. Just gently held taught. Slowly millimeters of worm eased out. Took at least 15+ minutes. Encouraged removal with gentle wiggle. Regrasped at base. The repulsive critters changed thickness. When they got thread-thin I had to really finesse it because they were so fragile. Again, kept regrasping at base.

6. I felt a teeny tiny pop when it was entirely removed. Earlier, I felt nothing (but ticked off) when it broke and I only achieved partial removal. There was no bleeding.

7. Could store for lab but thus far doctors refuse to submit my samples.

8. Resterilized tweezers.

SO CONSIDER:
Keep using the hand gel religiously and keep nails short. Eggs are viable (even in/on dust/fomites/cloth up to 20 days! Plus they can be airborne!) Don't reuse towels. DO launder sheets frequently in hot water, +/- bleach, & hot clothes dryer, keep hair up, shower daily, keep keybords, doorknobs, steering wheels, etc clean. Make sure family members practice good hygiene. Only have sex if your partner has washed his/her hands!

Lastly, the Pin-X: I'm a little wary about dosing/timing because the half-life, as far as I could find, is unknown, and there is an outside chance this is a different helminth, which may be unresponsive to Pin-X.

There you go. Your question helped me so much because now I have a way to screen my hands (used roughly 100 mL hand sanitizer massaging my fingers throughout a day). And they've never looked better. Night & day in 24 hours. I would venture helminths play more of an active role in cuticle & nail health than we've considered, and that traditional soap & water hand washing is not enough...

DD

For nearly a year I have been suffering from an itchy rash that starts at my feet and works its way up my legs, fingertips arms shoulders chest upper back, FACE , including my mouth ears and scalp. I am finding these tiny white things all over my house as well as where I have the rash, with a couple disgusting additions...my mouth nose, eyes and ear canals. The cycle starts with the rash, sore throat, occasional dry cough, intense earaches and intermittent stomach issues. When the rash is full blown I suffer from fatigue, balance and coordination problems and memory loss. I sometimes stagger like I'm drunk, frequently fall and the worste is that I do crazy things I have no memory of, I find shopping bags full of strange stuff I have no memory of buying among other strange things. My right eye has begun to wander to the far right when I'm looking straight at someone, I have pics. My kids are scared, I'm beginning to get depressed. My husband is on active duty in the military and this began after he came home from overseas and became an obvious problem after he left again on another deployment, he was only home a few months. He just got back only to find a wife he doesn't recognize. He's worried because he sees Exactly what's on me and coming out of me and angry because I've been to 5 doctors, including infectious disease and each without hardly looking at me Agreed with my PCM, I'm simply delusional. My pcm did however say I was anemic. I've been through 3 cycles of the rash, sore throat, earache, fatigue etc including coughing up mucus with what appears to be wormy like larvae, I guess? This happens for only a couple of days and stops. My nails have white/translucent wormlike things under and around them, I find tiny larvae like things all over, worms come out of my nose mouth and sores. Yet the craziest thing are these hairlike things that move. I've made videos, pic diary, etc and kept some in a baggie and NOT one Dr will even use a magnifying glass much less really look at them. Why is this happening to me? I've aged 10 years in 10 months, I'm skin and bones, dark circles under my eyes, even strangers can tell I'm sick. Who can I go to in Va that knows bugs? My kids are scared my big strong soldier feels helpless, angry and worried....Please help me for them... I don't know where to turn for help....the Army is not going to do another thing for me with this issue even though not one Dr wanted a follow up apt, once was it, except the eye Dr he had to prescribe special glasses to pull my eyes back together, he and my dentist both seem concerned but helpless..

Google “Horsehair Nematomorpha human diagnosis”. Or something to that effect. I have this (absolutely no doubts on that) & periodically I deal with what you describe to a “tee”. Actually had them today. They are definitely worms. My skin and muscles are riddled with them. I take Bounce Dryer Sheets and run them along a small area of my arm/hand/face/wherever, then hold the sheets up to the light and I can see the ones that move freely are in fact the worms and not the threads of the sheet. Some will thread themselves within the sheets and painfully re-enter me if I accidentally grasp them. They get pretty doggon aggressive with this. Good Luck to all on this thread!

I do too, have you found out anything about them yet?