caramba said...
I'm for the shotgun approach, and I'd try it :)
I like your style. I'll bring the ammo.
This is what doctors think when we mention parasites:
"I saw a patient recently for parasites.....
I get a sinking feeling when I see that diagnosis on the schedule, as it rarely means a real parasite....it is a traveler or someone with delusions of parasitism.....
(If you dont like guns then ya better be the traveler !)
....The latter comes in two forms: the classic form and Morgellons. Neither are likely to lead to a meaningful patient-doctor interaction, since it usually means conflict between my assessment of the problem and the patients assessment of the problem. There is rarely a middle ground upon which to meet. The most memorable case of delusions of parasitism I have seen was a patient who I saw in clinic who, while we talked, ate a raw garlic clove about
every minute....
“Why the garlic?” I asked.
“To keep the parasites at bay,” he told me.
I asked him to describe the parasite. He told me they floated in the air, fell on his skin, and then burrowed in. Then he later plucked them out of his nose.
At this point he took out a large bottle that rattled as he shook it.
“I keep them in here,” he said as he screwed off the lid and dumped about
3 cups with of dried boogers on the exam table.
To my credit I neither screamed nor vomited, although for a year I could not eat garlic. It was during this time I was attacked by a vampire, and joined the ranks of the undead.
I have seen the occasional earthworm thought to be an intestinal parasite. Sometimes people start to pay attention to their stool, often for the first time, and note tube like structures that move in the water. Most likely mucous or undigested fiber wafting in the gentle currents of the toilet water. Doesn’t that sound romantic? The contents of the average stool, like hot dogs and laws, are better left unexamined. In those patients, an examination of the stool for worms and worm eggs is usually unrevealing and makes me glad I am not a microbiology technician.
Morgellons is, as best I can tell, a variant of delusions of parasitism.
Here is a thing about
germs in general and parasites specifically: they have patterns and can be seen. There are patterns of disease and patterns of their life cycle. You can tell when a disease is probably delusional because the “organisms” have no understandable pattern in the life cycle, the disease, the physiology, the anatomy or the epidemiology."
(If you cant handle a shotgun then simply be articulately intimate about
detailing of pattern in the life cycle, the disease, the physiology, the anatomy or the epidemiology)
continued.....
www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/parasitesSeriously are you still brave enough to go legit?!
Ok this is how you word it.
'Doc, I remember I had stepped in some cat crap walking barefoot in my yard (or dog crap and a broken bottle on the beach).'
"Take one of these azoles" is what you'll want to hear next.
The Ivermectin is tricky and they wont be tricked. Its cumulative, so off days are needed. Go see Klinghardt in Seattle.
or get your horse some paste. It is very forgiving if you dont do
more than a small dab every 6 hours & take it slow. Just remember you weigh a lot less than the horse, but its not hard at all if you can divide.
Saltines Iver sandwiches on quartered pieces of saltines to keep the bitter taste off my tongue. This is my special breakfast today as I begin Cycle 2 day 1.
Goal is keep that bitter taste off my tongue
and make em small enough to wet and swallow.
Post Edited (ChickenArise) : 11/29/2016 2:18:18 AM (GMT-7)