oh, i totally don't doubt you for a second! you're probably one of the only people i can think of that could calmly pull a live worm out of their body and study it long enough to identify it, while keeping total composure.
but looking back like 7 years in the forums, there were so many people who thought their stringy snot was worms and that the itching in their nose was pinworms. i wonder whatever happened to them and if they ended up going off the deep end or figuring out what it really was.
i went through that period with my nose and ears too, but the only thing that saved me was that i had that since i was a little kid and knew it was allergies and inflammation. otherwise, i would have completely lost it... if that even would've been possible.