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I periodically become convinced that I am harboring a tapeworm. I hear st ories of pills that can be taken to kill everything in one's bowels, oft en resulting in a movement full of tiny dead things and a palpable feeli ng of emptiness. Many years later a girlfriend got them and it was concluded by her and the doctor that I was one of the lu cky minority of people who are carriers of the worms without being affli cted by them. I didn't believe it then, thi nking the culprit more likely her filthy dogs, and I'm less inclined to believe it now, as my wife has never come down with an infestation. Never the less, I worry that there could be something living within me. I need to find a place that offers free samples of those intestine-purgin g pills.
Father 7 May 2004 I went to a rave, some number of years ago. Attendance was about 30,000 p eople, it was a beautiful white sand beach in the middle of summer, many hours away from my home. I don't know how to swim, really, as I tend to sink rather than float, but I like spending time in the shallows. The rave itself was pretty kickass, aside from the security guards, the 1 0$ a pop bottles of water, the 'port-a-potty problem', and a few other s light problems. A few days later, I'm back in the city, at a friend's house, when I get a ll these terrible red welts over my arms, shoulders, and back. And nothing I tried would make them any less itchy, or any le ss red. After a few days I went to see my doctor, revealing to her all of my bump y glory. It happens when a little larval flatworm cra wls into your body, hoping that you're a bird, and it can grow up and la y all kinds of eggs in you." and they've all burrowed under my skin, where they're going to slowly starve and die?" If you look at my upper arms, shoulders, or bac k, there's these hundreds of tiny little white dots that mark my skin. M y doctor said that I could do something to try to have them removed, if I wanted, but I kind of like them how they are. I figure they'll serve as a warning to others of their kind. A graveyard of sorts, not unlike the warnings left by Vlad Tepes.
Jairus 7 May 2004 Ok my story doesn't involve parasites but they did share with me the ocea n and my bathingsuit. Well it is not so much gross as it is unbearably itchy and uncomfortable. I went with a bunch of the girls to South Beac h Miami, FL Easter weekend. Vacation begins the first day laying in the sun all day jump in the wate r on occasion. At around 4pm there is a mutual consensus to partake in happy hour - we a ll go back to the funky smelling hotel room and get cleaned up. I shower and notice I have some red bumps where my bikini top was. I wasn't too concerned I figured it would go away whatever it was by the time I got home. I fly back to NYC get back into the normal swing of things a w eek goes by the little red bumps are still there. It was about 5:00 PM o n Friday night when the fierce itch began I can't even describe the feel ing but I felt the only comfort would be to pour acid on my skin it was that itchy o so very itchy aaaaaahhhhhh.. So since then I have gone through 2 tubes of hydrocortisone and 2 tubes o f this wonderful Aveedo Oatmeal ointment, which is a combination of hydr ocortisone, calamine and something else. So while I was all itchy I look ed online for rashes - Sea Lice eventually comes up then I remember seei ng a sign for it on the beach. So let me explain Sea Lice is actually je llyfish larvae - the things are so tiny you can't really see them in the water but pretty much what happened was I was swimming then a few of th ose little mfers got stuck between me and my suit they all started freak ing out and stinging me. After about a week I figured I should probably go to a doctor to make sure I was diagnosing myself correctly. I brought the print out from the website - the doc didn't know what the bumps wer e from sea lice - jellyfish tings. So now I have steroid boobs hopefully it will help with the gravity problem I have been beginning to notice. So the itch is gone there are still a few marks but I am feeling much better. So next time you are Southern Florida find some anti sea lice lotion caus e I'm telling you getting stung by sea lice (jellyfish larvae) it is not fun. k fenwick 7 May 2004 When I was a very young child I developed a crescent-shaped abrasion on m y neck. When my mother saw it, she said, "Oh Lord, you have ringworm." I was greatly saddened when the pediatrician explained to me that ringwor m was a fungal infection.
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