UPDATE: DAY 16
Sorry it's been a few days, but there really isn't much to report. Was supposed to start the next 2-day dose last night, but was too sleepy to stay up until my stomach was empty, so will start it tonight.
I got some of the iver on a q-tip and rubbed it inside my nose and ears because of feeling squiggling in there, and it cleared it up. I can breathe through my nose for the first time in years, in fact, for the first time since I last did the strongyloides Iver/ABZ protocol. The long, stringy white things in my nose have almost disappeared completely. Now it's just a few small rubbery balls coming out.
All the itching is gone except for the spot on my back, and that has calmed down to almost nothing. I'm still putting coconut oil in it, because I haven't had the money to buy tea tree oil yet, but it seems to be working. I still occasionally have the feeling like something is "rolling" under the skin in that area, which is strange, but as long as it's improving, I'm fine.
A little itching on my head, but not much. Before, the top of my scalp was red and hot and that is almost gone now, which is AWESOME.
Still have a very few black and white thingies coming out of my hands and fingers, mostly at night, but the skin around my cuticles has almost completely healed now, whereas they were coming out there every day, all day before.
Still TONS of grainy white stuff coming out of my right knee. My entire right side seemed to be the epicenter of the infestation, so this is to be expected that it would take longer for that side to clear up. I know it's the parasites, because I will rub my knees and find all sorts of grainy stuff on the right knee and none on the other. Also, my right foot, which is swollen all the time, seems to be getting smaller and the grains coming out of the bottom seems to be clearing up.
Still a bit of "sand" in my bed, but very, very little. Not having the white stuff fall off of me like dandruff anymore, and the bits are getting smaller, which means they are younger and have likely not yet molted.
As for my skin, the texture is looking much better, but I'm still going to have to do some kind of peel to remove all the "tracks" especially from my hands and right arm, which is horrid. I don't know why these things congregated on my right side, but I do remember reading once that strongyloides usually does that, so maybe it's a chemical thing. I've always said that ants only bite me on my right foot, and that was long before I knew I had all these parasites.
I can still feel a sort of weird feeling in my right eye, and I actually had one of the white insect-looking things come right out of my eye, along with some grainy stuff, but nothing like before. My eyes were watering really badly in the morning, but that's stopped too, although the right one still waters sometimes. I'm going to start back doing the VCO/Lugols drops at night to help get to the ones in my eyes better.
I had one sore on the back of my leg that wasn't healing and itched like mad, but I scrubbed the top of it off with a facial scrub sponge and put some
Iodine on it, and it's healing now.
So all-in-all, I'd say I'm 75% better. I'm going to finish this tube of horse paste, and get another and take it once a week from now on just to keep them in check.
I do believe that the key is long-term treatment. I don't agree with some of the high doses and mixtures of chemicals some recommend, because I think it cases stronger, more immune parasites. This crap the doctors try to tell you about two doses killing everything is just that - CRAP - especially if you are hyper-infected or have immune problems.
I've also found that it takes about 24 hours after a dose to start to see any results, so I'll be back day after tomorrow after I take my dose tonight to tell you what happened.