Re: How many have done blood and stool tests and have they come back positive?
6cubed.
Thank you for the response. I wish the tests were as conclusive as you are portraying they are. I read a passage from Simon Yu's book stating that stool tests pick up as little as 10% percent of actual
parasite infections. One of the major problems is the
parasite will be in another location besides the intestinal tract. The eggs and ova actually have to get to the intestinal tract, be deposited in the sample jar and be analyzed in a relatively short amount of time before they decompose. Maybe some of the blood smears should be used or maybe a western blot or elisa test would be better. Maybe it could be projected kda bands like lyme disease. I don't know, but for whatever reason it doesn't pick it up. I wish it did, beleive me. I put my faith in a stool test after going to the emergency room for 2 days trying to get someone to listen and believe what was happening to me. I also paid 600 dollars for a triple phase abdominal ct scan only to have it come back as there being a benign congenital cyst. I complained of fluid and flukes being around my left hip. Well, he came back with my left hip having progressed degeneration uncommon with my age. Certainly not what I was expecting.
The point is, these tests aren't conclusive but it's all we as patients can use to convince doctors there's a problem. How many fasciolosis patients had this doctor seen doing the ct scan. How many fasciolosis patients had the three different doctors who performed ultrasounds seen. We as patients are doing the right thing, doing the tests, going ot doctors only for it to be completely pointless and expensive. Where does that leave us??? Alot poorer and with progressed infections that could have been avoided. It's a broken system that leaves us with very little options except self treatment. Unfortunately, the drug I need requires a doctor to contact the cdc to get it. They aren't going to do that on a hunch, they need conclusive results that are not possible to get. It's not my fault. Have the labs design better tests is what I think. But it's a broken system that again serves no purpose until possibly the infection has progressed to systemic proportions only to possibly have a test come back positive. WTF!!!
BTW - Flukes are a extremely rare find in civilized countries.
I'm not even going to waste my time arguing that statement.
I'm sorry you have such a resounding faith in the medical system. It just means you haven't been to enough doctors.