Okay, can I co-star in your horror movie?
I've got a lovely big bump on my foot that is worm-shaped and wriggles, when I apply malathion or hydrogen peroxide to it.
The last time I got blocked eustachians was by taking a hot bath, drying off, and applying malathion (it's a standard OTC 0.5% scabicide) to my whole body (except the face). I was actually trying to get rid of the bump on my foot. That just wriggled around even more and the worm came right up to just under the skin. However, I got 2 point-specific headaches at the back of my head. Then a couple of hours later, I got the blocked ear feeling. I had that for a whole day, and then it went.
I stumbled onto malathion when I thought this condition was scabies. My skin rash would be controlled or cleared up by using malathion, but this eventually stopped happening. However, I know my worms don't like it, but that it doesn't kill them (the adults, anyway). Basically, the hot bath raises the temperature of your body, allowing the malathion to be absorbed throught the skin into your blood stream. As far as I can see, it can't hurt if you only apply it only the once.
Do not use the malathion more than once. It says on the packet, you can use it again after a week, but then don't use it again. It's an insecticide and can be poisonous. Believe this. When I had a really bad skin-fit, I used it 3 days in a row, and was as sick as a dog - flashing lights, vertigo, nausea. I could barely stand. Anyway, if it doesn't work in one application, it's probably not going to work at all. I feel a bit wierd about telling you about this. I started the herbal remedies to get away from the poisonous insecticides. They really aren't good for your body at all. I've stopped using them. So I want you to be aware of the risks.
Even if your worm does die up there, your blood would get rid of it. I found this article interesting about how the blood does it:
http://kitchendoctor.com/healthconditions/parasites/blood_parasites.html
The frustrating thing about allopathic doctors not acknowledging the prevalence of parasites, is that they don't acknowledge how the blood gets rid of them either. AArgh! So there probably isn't "scientific" evidence for this, but if Ingrid Naiman is making this up, she's done a very good job of it, with the darkfield photos.
Okay, if anyone feels there should be more public health warnings about the malathion, please feel free to add them.
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I am envisioning them finding their way out via the eustachian tube. I have one that causes a screwing sensation and another one that causes a zig zag back and forth tickling sensation over the top of my head. Does it mean I have two different species, or could it be there is just one of them trying to get out in a different manner this time?
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I'm afraid to say that any answer would be a guess without a test of some sort, in my opinion. It could be any of the things you propose, and it could also be 'something' else.















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Stuff tends tend to surface on me when I am sleeping. I have awakened with sand in my bed several times. Once, a stick looking thing came out of my back. My bed partner pulled it out and threw it on the floor. He thought it was a big splinter. But it wasn't. It was something that worked it's way out of my body and it left a stinger behind that itched for several days. If I happen to be sleeping with someone, could one of these things possibly hop onto his body and get inside him, or do they die when they come out?
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I don't think that anyone can say anything for sure in this regard. I can tell you this, however: most parasites, by definition, would require to 'die' outside the host. New evidence may force that definition to be reconsidered in the future.

Could they "hop" and get inside him? It's possible. I have evidence of "jumping" thread-like larvae. I've called them "hair-likes". I've read many reports of events like this one. I believe that at least one person on this forum has reported visual motility of otherwise 'inanimate' thread-like things when near human flesh.

Larvae move, that's a fact. They also move towards the host. That's a fact as well. But it depends on which type of larvae one's talking about.

Do they die when they come out? Some species die. Some seem to 'hang on'. Could the ones you report die or could they stay alive outside the host? Anything's possible. It depends on what you're dealing with.

I'm sorry to seem so vague, but that's the way data seems to be at this point. At least the one I handle.















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I do not want to risk infecting someone. I am worried about my bed partner, who pulled the stick out of my back.
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Could he be or become infected? It's possible. Is it likely? Who knows. If I had to bet on it I'd say that it's likely that he's been exposed already. My experience tells me this. Has the exposition led to 'resident' infection within him? Personally I couldn't be sure of it. I'd say that could be a "throw of the dice", maybe 50/50? It's my guess. Maybe he's infected and many years will pass before any symptoms become evident.

















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Also getting used to the idea that I may have to go through this kind of several times to clear them all out of my system.
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There are several places in my body where I am noticing significant movement. It is getting just as annoying as it is frightening. I fear something surfacing on me at an inopportune moment, and people thinking I've gone nuts, when I start screeching that something is biting me and pull my clothes off.
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It's fine to be afraid, but try to control that fear. I know how hard that is, but you MUST try. After controlling the fear, you must try to control what's happening to you physically speaking.













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Another fear I have, is of the unknown.
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That one most of us as humans have.
It's one of the greatest and ultimate fears there is.













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It is easier to defeat a known enemy than an unknown one.
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Absolutely. That's why it's so important to try to know what you're dealing with before making a move.













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I want to be prepared for what could happen. What all kinds of things come out of people?
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ALL kinds of things. Look around. Read around. This very forum is filled with reports from people. Most doctors say they're crazy [the patients], but are they ALL crazy? I certainly am not. At least I don't think I am, and I know what I've seen and PHOTOGRAPHED myself. Be prepared for ANYTHING.

I mean, don't expect a "piece of metal" to come out of your body or anything like that, but when I mean 'anything', I mean mostly 'anything' that at least looks like an "organism". Don't freak out, just do what you have to do.













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What all happens when these things come out?
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From experience, most of the time.. nothing. They won't move or will hardly move, and you're not likely to feel any significant reaction within you. I've had some patients report extreme symptoms from time to time, but those are low percentages.

Some patients report a state of "release".













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How big do they get?
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The field of parasitology has well defined "limits" to the sizes of some types of organisms, but those "limits" are based on acquired data [observations], not on definitive proven factors. Their size varies from type to type. Unicellular ones shouldn't get past an egg's size (I'm being extreme - in practice they're (always) microscopic).

I would say that at least in theory a multicellular parasite should be able to reach a fraction of the host's size, maybe a quart, maybe never half, but that's just my opinion.

In practice, worms several meters long have been found inside human hosts, and it seems that longer ones are being found from time to time. It's much like what happens with squids, nobody can be sure just how big those things get.

I've seen masses (lumps) of worms several pounds in weight extracted in surgical procedures. Maybe in theory the final limit of a worms size is the host's size, I don't know.

If you ask me, I'd say that one shouldn't be surprised to have a worm inside the full length of the intestines and probably three quarts to half an inch in diameter. I'm not saying that this is the case, but to me it seems quite a reasonable expectation.

Don't be surprised to learn at one time or the other of worms in the OUTER linings of the intestines or other organs, such as entwined around the spine. I mean, I'm just saying, I've never seen this happen. I have seen worms literally attached to the outer surface of the liver. This I have seen. Because they could grow in so many parts of the body, they could grow to considerably different sizes that the body could accomodate, at least mechanically. Don't forget that these are thoughts and nothing to go crazy over.






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Do they usually come out alive or dead?
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Usually they seem to come out 'dead', but I've read and heard reports of people seeing them alive. I'd say that it depends on what you take to expel them. Worms in "stasis" formerly inside a host don't appear to like to move much, so they may seem dead although they're not; that's also possible. I've studied strange "threads" that look inanimate, but once you dip them into a certain chemical or a given stimulus is provided, they "come alive".











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Should I keep a can of RAID next to my bed to spray them down when they come out? Ha.
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I know that's bitterly funny. That was just my thought when I first started to deal with these things. What later proved most useful was to try as much as possible to catch them and to keep them alive for later study.













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I'm going to pretend this is a horror movie and I won the starring role. What fun. Doing battle with incredible journey creatures.
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I know just what you mean and it's not funny.









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What is their function? Are they compost machines, come to digest us? Sorry, but I'm not ready to die yet.
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I won't start with my theories on to what I'm suspecting that THEY REALLY ARE lest I scare everybody away from me and people consider me crazier than sometimes I think myself.

I believe I may be putting this puzzle together bit by bit. I'm not sure I'll come out and say what I find. I'll most likely keep it to myself. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss, and now I'm beginning to understand the saying: "The more you learn the more you wish you hadn't". I don't believe in that saying, but I'm understanding its meaning. I can say that one must have their head screwed on tight to deal with this. At least in me, parasites may have found a relentless enemy, because I will not give up.

Like I said, evidence is overwhelming and this is NO JOKE.
Check this out:





Doctors Remove Leech From Woman's Nose
Friday April 08, 2005 4:23pm from our sister station WJLA-TV

HONG KONG (AP) - Doctors have removed a leech from the nose of a 55-year-old Hong Kong woman after she swam and washed her face in a stream, a medical journal reported. The woman went to her doctor complaining of nose bleeds and an occasional sensation that something was blocking her left nostril, the Hong Kong Medical Journal said in its April issue. Her family doctor noticed a "brownish mass" in her nostril but couldn't remove it because of heavy bleeding, the journal said.

The patient was taken to the emergency room, where doctors identified the problem as a bloodsucking leech. They had trouble pulling it out because the 2 inch invertebrate retracted into the nostril and disappeared, the journal said.

Part of the slimy leech was in a passage of her nasal cavity and a larger segment was in her sinus cavity, the article said.

Doctors used a nasal spray to anesthetize the dark brown leech that had a sucker on the front part of its body. "After two minutes, the leech moved slowly out of the antrum (sinus) and was retrieved with forceps," the journal said.

The woman said that one month before her symptoms developed, she swam and washed her face in a stream while hiking. Doctors checked other members of her hiking group and found another leech in the nose of a man who washed his face in the stream, the journal said.

The article said the leech could have caused suffocation if it moved into the patients' larynx, or voice box.


( http://www.wjla.com/headlines/0405/219381.html )



..and that's just ONE case. I have about 17 documented cases from my personal files.

good info.