hi hazel,

sounds kinda like what i found the other day in my bm. i am not sure what mine was. mine didn't look like any of the pics either:(. i'm thinking it might have been either a round worm or whip worm but just guessing. if i find anything else out i will let you know:) i just started the Clarkia cleanse yesterday and haven't found anything else as of yet but also have been constipated and haven't had a bm either since i started the cleanse so things might get interesting once i finally do go LOL.

hang in there:)

hazel, i'm just curious.......are you on any type of cleanse right now?

I hope long term Curezonians will forgive me for repeating my story, but here it is. I had completed my 17th Liver Flush and found some fragments of parasites in some unusually large stones. I had broken them in half to see if they were solid stones or clumps of small ones. I did some research and began taking garlic, cayenne pepper, and raw pumpkin seeds for a "homemade" parasite cleanse. About a week later I was still feeling ill and blaming the liver flush. I did a white vinegar enema and out came an 18 inch long tapeworm! I was horrified and disgusted. I got up the courage to fish out the thing and look at it. When I saw the-I guess you would call it a mouth or sucker- on its "head" I freaked out and flushed it. I sure regretted doing that. Anyway, that night I went on line and ordered Parastroy. I had a doctor's appointment a few days later and the Naturopath also gave me some enzymes and a homeopathic solution to use with the herbs. I passed some more Tapeworm fragments, but not another whole worm.
About halfway through my parasite cleanse I began using psyllium and Bentonite shakes to clean out my colon, I was having some pretty severe die-off symptoms. About the third day of P&Bs, I had a bowel movement of three feet of hard rubbery mucoid plaque embedded with dozens of white and red-orange worms. I could not believe I was harboring such stuff. The next day I passed four feet of stool. The first foot or two was mucoid plaque, although there were only a few worms in it, the rest was what I assume was the swollen Bentonite and psyllium being passed. At the end of the cleanse I took the CoQ10 megadose, but did not notice any results from it.
I have done another cleanse recently using Paragone, but did not see any sign of parasites. Anyway, that is my horror story. I lost five pounds the day I passed the three feet of wormy mucoid plaque. I was so glad to get rid of that.
I am still fighting to regain my health, however getting those parasites out made a huge difference in the way I feel. I think they may have been a factor in lowering my immune system and my inability to overcome this chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia pain that has plagued me for a little over two years.

I had the same exact experience. Two times. I had a stool sample come back normal and a doctor think I was crazy. BUt then two weeks after the first There was another in the toilet. Sounds the same as you described. Always awhile after I had been in the bathroom and flushed. I have not noticed any itching or other symptoms that are obvious to me. Please let me know what you found out.
Thanks Christina

I had this happen also- some time after flushing a thin brown worm was swimming in the toilet. It was about 4" long, with little pointy things that prodruded and retracted from what I guess was the front end. Also two little sticky pads on each side that allowed it to adhere to the walls of the jar I collected it in. Perhaps this allowed it to remain clinging to the bowl through the flush? I have so far found no reference to worms that get into your toilet in other fashion, and it seems hard to believe that a worm swimming so happily in a liquid environment could transport itself through the air, or up the air filled column in the sewer pipe that leads into the trap. I could not identify the worm from any web photos on this site or others.

I preserved the worm in isopropyl alcohol, and it shrunk to less than an inch long and became quite stubby. I've been trying to get the thing IDed with little success, so far the only feedback from the lab is "not consistent with common human parasites", and "we can't give you any information, you have to go through your doctor" who I can never get ahold of and basically ignores me. Since a report did not accompany this statement I have no confidence that they did anything other than look at it in some off-handed way. I am trying to retrieve the worm since it's the only sample I have and deliver it to a lab that might actually do some work, maybe if I pay for the tests out of pocket I can control the process a little better.

Anyway that's my plan, I'll post what I find out. Any suggestions are welcome. I intend to pursue the standard western medicine approach to it's full extent before trying any of the cleansing approaches, but I'm about done with them after 2 years of various gastro problems for which they have failed to assist me.