Do you know, I did exactly that with the Tapeworm "seeds" from my stool, and the lab still did not know what they were. They had the fricken parasite in fricken alcohol in front of their fricken faces, and they didn't know what it was. It threw all of us for a loop that my Tapeworm variety put out small round balls instead of long segments (tapioca vs. rice) Do you want to know what the lab said???? "Foreign object in gut." Honestly! As though I had eaten something and didn't know it. I had to take my stool to the VET and tell him it was from a new dog before I got an ID on my problem. I don't recommend lying, but in this case I was absolutely desperate. If you tell the vet it's your stool, they won't test it. They laugh at you, tell you you'd have to eat the feces to get parasites from your dog, and say go to your doctor. Well, we all know how THAT goes.

BTW if you're wondering if that would give you a valid check, all Tapeworm eggs are identical under the microscope.

I would have saved the samples if I thought it would help my treatment. But apparantly the most effective course of action is to just deworm yourself on a regular basis.

If I ever come up against something Humaworm won't take out (or zapping or coenzyme Q10, I haven't needed to try those yet) I would try my Dr's office again. But not with a lot of hope.

Yes, I mean a ping pong ball. Or a squash ball, if you prefer. One and a half inches in length, slightly less in width, judging from the way it got "squeezed" when I.... ah.... when it left my body. Not all of it was visible in the stool, and I didn't "dissect" my poop, so there might have been more to it.