KLAXON!! Pic - Tell me this is a stitch and not a.....

[MrsBlimey]

....tapeworm or anything horrendous please!

Have had slightly infected stitches from episiotomy (two weeks ago) and fanjo has been v sore. Was on antibiotics for a week which cleared things up but yesterday (couple of days after finishing tablets) I had more bleeding, soreness and this critter thing when I wiped.

I could have sworn it moved when I first saw it but that might have been my sleep deprived mind getting all freaked out.

Please put my mind at rest!

Place marking, just place marking.

I want to think it's a stitch but I don't.

It looks like a worm to me too...

Place marking!

Hope it's a stitch! I'm leaning the other way though.

Have you been quarantined, OP?

It really does look like a worm...........

Oh my god, I've just googled images searched roundworm. The pic of them all coming out of that boys bum is

Wanna know what the doctor says

Well? taps foot impatiently

Ooh that looks revoltingly wormish. Hope you were able to get some answers at the GP today - let us know - I'm intrigued!

Congrats on the new baby by the way!!

I hope it was a stitch

When c-section stitches start to dissolve and pull away they are like very thin plastic wire in texture and appearance. Not sure if they use the same stuff for episiotomy stitches- but cs thread is not at all worm like.

I feel sick :(

Brace yourselves:

Well, um, I went to the GP and now I have a special stool sample pot and some special gloves so that next time I find one of these darlings, I shove it pronto into the pot and hoof it down to the surgery so it can be sent off to some high security lab or something to be looked at by people in haz mat suits.

Turns out they can't diagnose or proscribe anything without knowing exactly which type of worm it is so they need to get a wormoligist / bum worm expert to decide before deciding how to treat it. (As an aside, I wonder just how many of those jobs there are in the country. And their relative job satisfaction? Anyway...)

I'm not sure whether to be pleased that it's more likely to be a bum than fanjo worm, tbh.

Most bum worm cases are apparently traced back to v poor hygiene and having things like dog crap under your fingernails and then cooking tea and licking your hands, and all this in developing countries with limited clean water supply. As we're in the UK, don't have pets and I'm, er, aware of and practice pretty good personal and food hygiene thankyouverymuch, it's not clear how it's come about.

On the other hand it might just be an odd kind of suture which the GPs not seen before.

So all I have to do now is explain to my DH that I might have a maggoty arse.

My daughter once found a worm when erm...wiping. I thought it looked like the cord that is wrapped around chicken to keep the legs together. I convinced her she had probably eaten that the previous day and now it was making its way out. I think she had a worm though. She had no further symptoms.

I did wonder how on earth it could have come about. Any dodgy takeaways recently?

I am lol-ing @ wormologist / bum worm expert. Bless you for sharing.

Oh no you poor thing, hope another one appears soon so it can be rushed to the bum wormologist without too much delay. Also that they do a quick turnaround at the worm lab.

Did you keep the original one?

'What do you do'
takes a canapé 'I'm a bum worm expert'
sips prosecco and looks interested 'and what does that entail?'
'puts glass down on beautifully polished tray checking out maggoty arses--
'Oh lovely'
'What do you do?'
'I'm and estate agent'
disgusted curl of the lip 'that's heinous, you disgusting twat'

We need Lewiji on this thread. I believe that she is a wormologist!!!!