please help!! i have drug resistant chronic giardiasis

Here is my battle with giardia for 15 months. It started after consuming the water from a faulty cooler in my workplace in India. I had all the symptoms after a week; watery diarrhea, farts, urgency and the eggy burps. I attributed all this to extreme stress at workplace. I put off visiting the doctor as my job was taking up most of my time. Eventually my health started affecting my efficiency at work. This went on for six months, I still had diarrhea and the other symptoms, but I had not lost any weight yet.I thought that it was nothing serious and will resolve on its own, It did not. After two more months, I got dysentery type diarrhea lost 3 kg weight. All this seriously affected my performance at workplace, so got fired. After getting fired I thought I’ll give a chance for my body to heal, it did look like I was getting better…After a month my dad got severely ill and was hospitalized, He had multiple-organ failure, so my family's time went on looking after him. All this while I rapidly lost weight. From 50kg, I weighed 40kg now. After my dad's health stabilized, I went to a GI and was diagnosed with having giardia. That was two months ago. He put me on nitazoxanide, for 5 days. I have been on 3 courses of it. After each course, I felt like the giardia became more and more resitant. Then I was put on albendazole which had no effect on the buggers. Then finally he put me on tinidazole for three days.. I had put all my hopes on this to finally end my nightmare. It did nothing but give me a terrible metallic taste in the mouth and terrible fatigue. After getting diagnosed, I am on a lactose free, Sugar free, wheat free diet. I am a vegetarian and so my diet is as limited as it can get. I look like a skeleton and feel suicidal and depressed all the time. I have no social life left and am home bound all the time. Now it looks like even the doctors can't help me. I have started taking VCO since a week. Also, fresh coconut and tender coconut water is a part of my daily diet. Does not look like anything's working . My current symptoms are yellow bulky stools 4-5 times upon waking and terrible gurgling stomach, tenderness in the stomach area, flatulence and belching. I would like to know if this going to last forever. All those medicines only gave me temporary relief, so I wonder if there's anything that can help me. Would be grateful to hear from chronic giardiasis sufferers.

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