“I have had these weird things in my stool for a long time now”, states this reader in the submission she sent us. “They look like red sesame seeds but they are definitely not something I ate.”
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“I have had several stool tests but no results. Do you know what they are or where I can send this picture for assistance?”
Unfortunately, we cannot tell our reader what they are. Since our reader found these in her stool, this situation is potentially medical in nature. Now, we are not medical professionals, so we are not qualified to identify organisms of this nature.
That said, we can indeed help our reader find assistance. When a reader inquires about organisms they think are coming from their body, we always recommend consulting a medical parasitologist.
A medical parasitologist is a physician who specializes in infections caused by organisms that negatively affect the human body. Our reader could also consult her primary care doctor, though we must warn her that most primary care doctors (and GPs and ER doctors) do not receive training in medical parasitology, and past readers of ours have had bad luck going to their doctors with concerns about parasites.
So with that in mind, what we can recommend is that our reader do one or more of the following:
1) Search for a medical parasitologist in her area using this directory of medical parasitology consultants: https://www.astmh.org/for-astmh-members/clinical-consultants-directory.
2) Search for a local parasitologist by doing a Google search for “medical parasitologist (name of the closest big city)” or “tropical medicine specialist (name of the closest big city)”.
3) Get in touch with Dr. Omar Amin at the Parasitology Center at https://www.parasitetesting.com.
Additionally, we suggest that our reader give as much context as she can, along with the pictures, to whomever she ends up consulting.
To conclude, we are unfortunately not qualified to identify the objects that our reader found in her stool. We hope nonetheless that the resources we provided come to use and prove helpful. We wish our reader the very best and hope that she soon gets the answers she is seeking!
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Please help me! My family and I are suffering with the same thing or something similarl! I can’t get a doctor to take us seriously! We’ve been infected for at least 3 years now and they are getting really bad! I’m afraid! It’s like the doctors were told by somebody not to treat people with these symptoms! I’m desperate to get help
This is the only thing similar to my search of these seed looking pods I’ve been finding around my house. I’ve also experienced some of these symptoms for a year since I had a dirty roommate.. even sores in my nose that my doctor couldn’t diagnose..
Any luck on figuring out what they were? I have been passing them for about a month now. My stomach is always bloated and I have constipation as well an never really comfortable.
I believe I have seen these as well. Mine had a single tiny barb on each; and resembled a swelled apple seed. When dry they shrink considerably and darken and look like small black sesame seeds. I looked in a book and they resembled pics of trichonomiosis— “trich” for short. I used flagyl-ation. This cleared my symptoms— diarrhea, smelly gas, rumbling, noisy high pitched gurgling, and shooting movement in tummy. It returned after a month and a half, though. Don’t know a permanent solution. Clove powder helped expel some.
This is what my stool looks like as well as my skin has what looks to be worms, I had 2 toxic molds in the duplex I was renting and( finally had it tested )after a year of being sick there (looks just like these things in your stool!) stick looking objects and all, no doctors I’ve been to know anything about it but I looked it up and my immune system being comprised so badly – I still have it even after being out of that place for almost a YEAR!! Just be careful who you go to and what you say. They literally locked me up in a mental hosp over the Fourth of July weekend and then my ex called dcfs and told them I was “crazy” and am now just about to get her back, she was a baby then. She’s already a toddler now. This has ruined my life, and my health. Thank God her immune system was strong enough to fight it once she moved into her temporary home (the ONLY positive to this nightmare situation)
First off, you are NOT crazy. I have experienced this kind of nightmare myself. I went to the ER, with samples and the nurse just threw them away and said it was bed bugs! I had some horrible looking places on my skin from where I had this parasite so long, they bored their way out of my intestines and went all throughout my body. This had nothing to do with bed bugs. Eventually I found a doctor that was willing to help me. After I brought in s sample to him, he first told me that what I’d brought to him isn’t a worm. Because that’s not what they look like, but he sent it to the lab for testing and it turned out to be an extremely rare form of round worm. A rare form of the parasitic infection called Strongyloides. He was shocked. After that he bent over backwards to help me. I ended up being prescribed three different anti-parasitic medications. Ivermectin, Albenazole and the other one started with F. It was $1400 for six pills. Usually you take those types of meds and then again two weeks later. The first dose usually does the trick and the second round is precautionary. I wasn’t that lucky. I took those medications for months and months! It took quite some time, but eventually the nightmare ended. Feel free to contact me if you need more details. If you’re having problems with your skin, soak in Epsom Salt, preferably the kind that’s been infused with coconut oil. It will soothe your skin.
The final thing, it made me feel so sad to read the part of your story about your daughter. I’m sorry that you were treated that way. I to know what it feels like for everyone to write you off as crazy instead of be supportive! That bothered me almost as much as the infection!
I’d be more than happy to help you if you feel like you need some help.
Thanks for your post. Could you tell me the protocol you used for the strongyloides? I have those apple seed things in my stool at times and believe ive had this parasite for 8 years; but could not get a diagnosis. Thank you kindly.
Looks like liver flukes
Flukes or paragonimus?
Me too must be a bad spread of these over 2020 20 21 to 20 22.
I have exact same thing. Did you find out what it is? SMS me if you can.
I was just wondering if you ever found out what the sesame seed things were? Sad but true, that I have almost identical photos and am terrified and looking for answers! Thank you for your time