Man finds extreme healing eating parasitic worms – CNN.com

Would I swallow these worms? You betcha:

Man finds extreme healing eating parasitic worms – CNN.com via Man finds extreme healing eating parasitic worms – CNN.com.

When conventional treatment didn’t work this past year, I took thalidamide, a drug that is all but banned in the entire world because it causes birth defects and can cause permanent nerve damage in adults who take the drug, for a month. The side effects were horrible. (Click here to read other posts on icanhasgrace about my trouble with UC.)

I tried extremely restrictive diets. I eventually made an appointment for evaluation to have my colon removed. Then because of nothing any doctor did, I went into remission. I still have occasional issues, but I am not going to the bathroom 10-plus times a day anymore. However, every doctor assumes that it’s only a matter of time before sever symptoms return.

The doctor at the end of the CNN article who talks about how irresponsible the New York University, CNN, and the patient were to report this as news is not going to the bathroom 10 times a day or shitting in his pants at least once a week. He hasn’t suffered from “‘roid rage,” a side-effect from taking harmful steroids, which just about drove my family crazy. He isn’t looking at having to defecate attached to the side of his body, either.

I understand that there are rules to follow, and they have by-and-large served us well. But articles like this give people who are suffering hope. I hope my remission lasts a good long while, long enough for drinking worms to become more common for the treatment of ulcerative colitis.