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“My first summer home from college I had gained 20 pounds, which is normal-ish, and I was craving food I had never even liked before. But then, I started waking up vomiting for 3-4 days in a row. It would stop for a few weeks then start again, all in a 3-4 day block and getting more intense each time. I ruled out pregnancy pretty quickly, and proceeded to see a series of doctors over the next couple months who all basically said I had IBS and that was that. No one ran a single test (except for pregnancy tests 🙄). It wasn’t until an herbalist friend started tracking WHICH 3-4 days out of the month I was getting sick and put together that it was always when the moon was full. Long story short, I had a parasite in my intestines, likely for over a YEAR, that was reproducing every time the moon was full.”
“A stool sample confirmed it and my lovely herbalist friend put me on a diet and protocol that cleared it up in matter of weeks. I dropped all the weight, lost the cravings, and wasn’t sick again!”
—xnrbx1941
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/audreyworboys/doctors-missed-the-diagnosis
