Hello,

I live in Italy. For several years now, I have been waking up at 3am with a sudden urge to have a bowel movement, urinate, blow my nose, then followed by a sudden belly ache similar to hunger belly aches. I have tried various parasite cleanses which didn't help much, took Antibiotics (normix) which didn't help at all and acupuncture which helped a bit by pushing back the symptoms to appear at 6am, thus giving me some much needed three extra hours sleep. But the benefits of the acupuncture soon tapered off after i finished the cycle and now as I am doing a second round it hasn't helped at all. Even during my afternoon naps I wake up because of the sudden (less sudden that at nightime) urge to have a bowel movement. The stool is mostly normal but sometimes it's loose. I cycle between constipation and diarrhea.

I have a rare genetic mutation called mitochondrial myopathy (CPEO), of which not much is know about so it is difficult to understand if much of what is going on is related to my illness or if it is indeed a parasite infestation which I lean more towards.

Unfortunately here where I live doctors think parasites are only present if they are detected in the stool analysis (my stool analysis came back normal) and they have little knowledge of the much bigger impact parasites can have. I haven't been able to find a good naturopath here in town, so I have been doing all the research myself but have found no cases similar to my symptoms. I have purchased the book the owner of humaworm wrote after her site shut down and am planning to do some of the purges (I had previously purchased her protocols and they seemed to work a little although I probably didn't take them long enough). I hope that through this I will get some respite from being awakened in the middle of the night.

If anyone has any insight on what may be going on I would greatly appreciate your input.