Re: What can eat away at muscles?

Strongyloides don't eat muscle, they ruin your intestines and who knows what else causing maldigestion and malabsorption. Your body then converts muscle to the energy you need to survive.

This happened to me also a year or so ago. The flesh on my thighs and arms just disappeared in a matter of weeks. I could get a handful of my once-firm thighs plus I lost about 20 lbs.

I did not know at the time that strongyloides was probably the main problem because I had a few other types of worms. I recently had a Strongyloides Antibody (blood test) done at Quest which confirmed this diagnosis.

I had been on ICU's protocols for a time before this muscle atrophy started. Nutrition is not the only thing improperly absorbed. Medicine is not absorbed well, either.

You need to work on killing the helminthes and repairing the gut pronto. Or at least as fast as you can.

For the gut I took Betaine HCL with Pepsin to increase stomach acidity and a good probiotic with prebiotic to replenish the good intestinal bacteria. Eat lots of thoroughly washed raw vegetables for their digestive enzymes. Chew your food really well because of the digestive juices in saliva. Also, don't drink a lot with your meals (it dilutes the stomach acid).

Both Albenza and Ivermectin kill most parasites. If you have strongyloides, albenza is more effective with the larva; while ivermectin is most effective with the adults. I have made enough progress to heal my digestion and absorption issues, but did not fully recover by taking drugs orally. I am now almost well. Each different protocol is killing a different parasite I didn't know I had. I'm finding ivermectin administered rectally is working much better for me. With your malabsorption issues, rectally might be far better for you, too.

Hope this helps, and keep us posted on your progress.