Poss tmi warning - DH has worm in leg

[sphil]

Dh has just returned from the Gambia with what he thought was an insect bite on his leg. Over the last week it has got bigger and yesterday a small white worm popped out of it (where's the yuk emoticon when you need it?) Went to GP who admitted she didn't know what to do and has referred him to dermatologist at hospital on Friday.

Has anyone heard of this - googling only produces 'guinea worm disease' which causes severe pain, and he says it's just a bit uncomfortable. Dh wants to know what the treatment will be (altho I think he has an idea...) and whether he'll have to take antibiotics.

what mango fly?

this is like cods spot thread teh other day.

It makes me feel really ill but I can't stop reading it.

Mr Sphill....with your manky, worm ridden leg you are our hero

oh my freaking christmas. His ear fell off.

actually, that's an expression, isn't it.

As in "a word to the wise. Whatever happens, do NOT allow yourself to get allocated a tent with Mr FioFio. You'll get no sleep at all - that man will talk your ear off."

omg i have just read this - i have a fierce phobia of worms - if i had this i would chop of my leg.........

Today our postie tried to deliver a wormery for my dh (a birthday present for his dad) and it said live stock on it so i threw keys at postie and told him to put package in garage and post keys through door.... he thought it must contain a highly poisonous snake - bleughhhhh

Shil how you slept last nighti dont know - what if they laid eggs everywhere or came out at night only like bed bugs bleughhhhhhhhh

i nearly wee-ed myself.
Please can everyone be aware that there are ladies on this forum whose pelvic floors have long-since deserted them?

lmao about ear falling off - for real???

any chance he can come round and talk my rolls of fat off - bloody nora you could hire him out!!! Lose a stone... or an ear!

I have never ever responded to these discussions before, but I have to say this is the funnyest thing I have read for AGES. Even called DH in have a read who is now mesmerised and has asked for installments!
I hope the DRs goes well tomorrow, PLEASE let us know hwat happens!

But what is the matchstick myth ?

I shan't sleep tonight if I don't find out soon.

Ewwwww at ear incident

(Am I awful in laughing unkindly?)

BALD - I'm not sure whether it's a myth or a basic piece of jungle medecine. I heard it from my dad, who did his national service in Africa. Anyway, there is (apparently) a long worm which will lodge in your skin - via an egg laid there, I guess - and, to extract it, you have to wait for it to poke its head out of the skin and then wind it around a stick, winding out a little more day by day until the whole thing's out.

Did a bit of Googling. Seems it's not a myth. If you are not squeamish - but be warned that the picture is truly gruesome - look at this account of the eradication of the guinea worm.

[covers eyes]

Thanks, MadBad

I refuse to look at the link [wuss]

oh i looked, euwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, why did i flucking look????

mad bad you are evil.......

Mr Sphil
You need a t-shirt.

'I went to Africa and all I got was a fucking worm in my leg'

Cool! I'm glad he got it sorted and hope it goes well for him tomorrow.

I've had lots of, erm, interesting stuff happen on my travels.

I once pulled a leech of a man's dick, too.

My landlords are living in Uganda just now and have to iron everything because of whatever it is that can lay eggs in clothes on the line and then get into your skin.

not hot enough.

they don't have one in Africa, anyhow.

no reliable power supply - they get a lot of power cuts.

Nappyzoneneedsanewname - I'm sorry but I deny being an evil person. There was a very explicit warning about the gruesome photo - a genuinely evil person would have said 'come this way ladies and look at this lovely picture'!

Mr Sphil has just spent 20 minutes staring at his worm with DS1's insect magnifier and a torch, waiting to see if it'll move! It hasn't. I'm wondering if it's died. He's now worried that the doctor tomorrow will be disappointed it's not more dramatic

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Maybe wormy is having a bit of a nap.