Intestinal Flukes: Pictures Included

I've come across this board ever since identifying flukes in my stool several days ago. I've bad gastrointestinal issues, probably all the ones you would think, for approximately two years now. It was so bad that I visited a doctor about a year after the issues began and was told blood and stool samples came back normal. The doctor called the conditions IBS and just advised to eat better, exercise, and prescribed me Miralax to relieve the constipation. It helped temporarily during bouts of constipation but otherwise things steadily became more chronic.

Flash forward to a few days ago. After a night out of heavy drinking, I had another fit of what I've occasionally come to live with, which is bowel movements that are extremely painful (burning). Not large, dry stool like typically associated with painful bm, but moist and mushy. While coping with the pain in the immediate aftermath of the bm, I looked at my feces and noticed something I'd often noticed in the past yet never thoroughly investigated, a red tinge of color along the side of some of the stool. Determined once and for all to finally get a better idea of what it was (remarkably I'd never actually probed before) I poked at the stool with crinkled up toilet paper. To my surprise, and as a result of the loose form of the stool, the red portion split apart and looked like a piece of flesh. This scared the hell out of me and I ushered it to the side of the bowl. Upon stirring up the stool I noticed a few other reddish portions and used a cue tip to separate them as well. Having zero idea what I was looking at, but being certain it was of flesh like consistency, I immediately took to the web and, to my surprise, immediately found a match. Flukes.

Not once had it ever crossed my mind to think I could have something like worms causing my stomach issues. I'd long worried that candida may have been the culprit from my research online. And I never once thought to probe my stools. I've noticed the same red tinge before and simply wrote it off as something peculiar, but I had no idea it could have been an actual independent lifeform. I had to tinker with my stool a little in the process of providing samples after my first doctor's visit but nothing jumped out at me.

Anyway, since this site was helpful in viewing images which assisted me in identifying what it was I had discovered, I figured I would share mine as well and hope it can be helpful to others. I'm headed to the doctor tomorrow to hopefully get on prescription medication. I'll have pictures in tow as well as a few specimens I am attempting to store in a vial to bring in.


These are pictures from three separate bowel movements on 3 separate days within a 4 day span.

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