Help, I've got a tapeworm and it's messing with my head

[Invasionofthegutsnatchers]

I've had stomach ache for a few weeks. Phoned GP, submitted stool sample. Results not back yet. Gripey pain, back pain, feel tired. GP said probably gastritis or h.pylori infection.

This morning I passed a worm 🪱 about 5cm long 😱😱😱 it was dead. Looked a bit like tagliatelle but thinner.

I'm so disgusted, I wash my hands really regularly. Horrified, vaguely amused, stomach feels like it's being eaten from the inside out and now I know why! Dear Lord.

I will phone GP again on Monday to request prescription for tablets to kill it. Until then I KNOW IT IS THERE and it's so disturbing 🤯

I'd definitely be taking ovex just in case it was a round worm.

I saw a documentary years ago about a bloke who purposefully got a tape worm. The length of it when he finally killed it was mind blowing... He laid it out in the garden.

@CovidCorvid

I'd definitely be taking ovex just in case it was a round worm.

I saw a documentary years ago about a bloke who purposefully got a tape worm. The length of it when he finally killed it was mind blowing... He laid it out in the garden.

The world is full of fucking weirdo's.

Fuuuuuuck

I hope you can see a doctor or a pharmacist to help. I'm stressed just reading this thread and worrying whether the sausage I just ate was cooked so I can only imagine you must be quite distressed

Are you animals wormed?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/tv-self-experimenter-dr-michael-mosley-plans-his-nastiest-challenge-yet-infecting-himself-tapeworms-leeches-and-even-malaria-9097106.html%3famp

The best part of the article is - “ The main negative effect is that after about 10 weeks, segments of the tape worm can start crawling out of your bottom,” he said. “They have male and female parts and carry eggs. They can literally crawl out. I have spoken to someone who said they started crawling out of his trouser leg while he was driving down the motorway.”

Surely you took a photo of it on your smartphone to show the doctor?

Anyone for sushi?

www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/19/579130873/man-pulls-5-1-2-foot-long-tapeworm-out-of-his-body-blames-sushi-habit?t=1629543166344

@Galassia

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/tv-self-experimenter-dr-michael-mosley-plans-his-nastiest-challenge-yet-infecting-himself-tapeworms-leeches-and-even-malaria-9097106.html%3famp

The best part of the article is - “ The main negative effect is that after about 10 weeks, segments of the tape worm can start crawling out of your bottom,” he said. “They have male and female parts and carry eggs. They can literally crawl out. I have spoken to someone who said they started crawling out of his trouser leg while he was driving down the motorway.”

If I were the OP this would not be helping my frame of mind at all. Seems a bit of a cruel post.

I saw a documentary years ago about a bloke who purposefully got a tape worm. The length of it when he finally killed it was mind blowing... He laid it out in the garden

Oh yeah I remember watching that! shudder

I also used to watch the programme monsters inside me, that was fucking grim

Sorry OP I know this won't be helping!!!

Surely that was for threadworms, no one would think their child was at risk of regular tapeworms confused“

No idea. Mid-60s, I was a small child. Lived in horrible conditions, with animals. Suppose anything was possible. Guess they thought better safe than sorry.

No worm would crawl out just wriggle.....crawling indicates they have feet!!

Oh if only you had taken a picture OP, you would have been crowned Queen of Sporners Corner for eternity.

Next time.........

I think some of these posts might be distressing to OP

I'm sure it's bit funny if you're worried you have one

Don't worry OP, assuming it is a worm, obviously it needs removing but while it's in there it's not doing you any physical harm, it's just sharing some of your food. Think of it as an uninvited house guest.

Not cruel at all, just trying to help the op find some humour in her situation and to urge her to see a pharmacist about any over the counter treatments is she can’t see a GP sooner.

It's OK I have a dark sense of humour.

My stomach keeps gurgling 😱

@MrsSkylerWhite

Try not to panic! I was wormed regularly as a child, most of my friends were. Horrible medicine, supposed to be raspberry but was foul.

I’m sure there are much better treatments now

That was Pripsen, for threadworms not tapeworms. And the reason why to this day I won't eat anything raspberry flavoured.

One of the main culprits of tapeworm is sushi (I studied parasitology at uni for a term - we all wormed ourselves afterwards!!).

OTC treatments for threadworm and roundworm don't work on tapeworm, and you'll need a more specialised kind of medication.

If you found a worm in your poo would you wash it and photograph it or would you screech and flush it? 😳

Yes I flushed it. Maybe more will appear. If they do I will photograph it

@Invasionofthegutsnatchers

If you found a worm in your poo would you wash it and photograph it or would you screech and flush it? 😳

Yes I flushed it. Maybe more will appear. If they do I will photograph it

I would have screeched and flushed too.

Maybe thrown a bit of paraffin and a lighted match down there as well, for good measure

Hope you get it sorted, OP

Take a picture if you see another

I've got some horse wormer if you'd like me to send you some

I'd hold off on the ovex if you think it is anything bigger than what that typically deals with.

DH got some hideous large thing, we believe from raw fish in Norway, and we were prescribed massive quantities of ovex - like the pharmacist called me over to check why it was such large amounts.

@Galassia

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/tv-self-experimenter-dr-michael-mosley-plans-his-nastiest-challenge-yet-infecting-himself-tapeworms-leeches-and-even-malaria-9097106.html%3famp

The best part of the article is - “ The main negative effect is that after about 10 weeks, segments of the tape worm can start crawling out of your bottom,” he said. “They have male and female parts and carry eggs. They can literally crawl out. I have spoken to someone who said they started crawling out of his trouser leg while he was driving down the motorway.”

Ah, yes, those heady days before he found the TV Doctors' holy grail - a new way of tapping into the Diet Industry.