About Me
Christchurch City (New Zealand) from the Port Hills. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Hi, and thanks for visiting my Blog outlining my battle with Blastocystis Hominis (Blasto).
I started my main site Blastocystis-Relief.com at the beginning of 2010 to help promote my Blastocystis Hominis Resource Guide, a 58 page eBook that I wrote to try and help people make sense of the myriad of information that is available online about Blasto, most of it quite technical and medical in the extreme.
With the amount of email and contact I get from people needing guidance it was time to start a Blog, and I have done this now with the very capable help of my Wife Leigh, who has become an expert in her own right on how to live with someone who is crippled with this horrible parasite.
As of June/July 2010 all of my test results have come back negative for all forms of infection and parasites, something which makes me feel a whole lot different than a year previous.
I believe I contracted the Blasto on a trip overseas – I know I wasn’t right after I got home.
I know one thing for sure though – it’s great to get rid of it!
I am a mid 40′s male living in Christchurch New Zealand with my wife Leigh and two teenage children, and I can’t tell you how old Leigh is because she would kill me for telling you!
Also, a bit of an update, poor old Christchurch doesn’t look like the picture on this page now, after the September 2010 earthquake of 7.1 that struck, and the major aftershocks of February 22, 2011, and June 13, 2011, and December 23, 2011.
Welcome to the support blog for my Blastocystis Hominis Resource Guide. On this blog I bring you updates and other information which will help in the fight against Blastocystis Hominis. Feel free to get in contact or just simply pass a comment.
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hi paul…..i havent googles blasto on the net now for 6mths. prior to that i was on it everyday for a year……i am still recovering from a two year infection and the one before that was 7 years ago that also went for about two years. Even when im well in between attacks i still feel average all the time and yes i cant tolerate high amounts of starchy/ sugary things. Its soooo depressing and frustrating that there is no cure yet. I have been to naturopaths..dr’s…healers…holistic gp’s…psychologist’s and psychiatrists. My friends think im a bit of a hypocondriac and have anxiety issues. This disease makes on very anxious as the symptoms are unpredicatble and debilitating at times. I get palpitaions, hot sweats, loose stools, nausea and vomiting if really sick, dizziness and faintness, rapid and slow heart rates, nightmares insomnia, gut pain and dull aches in my abdo muscles and back. Oh and ofcourse fatigue depressiona and irratibility. Sound like a hypocondriac? I know but its true and its ahard to tell people that dont have the infection what its like. I believe i got mine in bali 10 years ago after eating cheese. I got sick straight after it and then recovered for a while and then it all began!
Life has been incredibly hard on me and my family. My husband has the same parasite but has no symptoms. I have always had a weak immune sytem and sensitive gut. Perhaps thats why i am eaffected…….I am waiting for the Blasto Research Centre to figure out a cure. Please hurry…If i had millions i would fund the research
Hi Jacqueline,
Same here! If I had the millions I would do the same, but not only the research – I would use some of the millions to tell people about it.
I think if you follow certain procotols, such as making conscious decisions to do things that bring your body back into balance, that is half the battle. Another thing is to understand the enemy, it’s pecularities and it’s lifestyle, that helps definitely.
I think also most people believe what their Doctor tells them, and they believe that all Doctors can cure all ills. Unfortunately, this isn’t true.
There are cures I believe, they just aren’t quick, and they do take discipline!
Hi Paul,
Congratulations on getting rid of Blasto. I’ve just been diagnosed, though I believe I’ve had it for over a year. My additional concern on top of all the problems associated with the illness is that I’m breastfeeding a three month old baby. Are you aware of any medication that could be compatible with breastfeeding?
Hi Marta,
Thanks for the kind comment, life sure is different!
I am sorry, I can’t answer your question about the medication, it would be best to talk to your own Doctor or another health professional face to face.
Hi Marta,
I know your post is a month old by now but I wanted to tell you that I know from personal experience that (while I am not giving medical advice) the few medications that might be used to try and treat your blasto are not going to work well with breast feeding. I had this very question myself. I had been sick for many years when we miraculously had a baby. The baby is a healthy 2 year old now. I too breast fed for about 3 months but we never considered treating me while I was nursing. I am also still sick.
Hi Paul,
I have to tell you I was on line looking tonight because I was thinking of starting a blog to tell of my blasto experiences. I need a way to vent when I am so sick at 2:00am. And having been sick for more than a decade it is hopeful that some time in my lifetime I might be healed and have a quality of life I really do not remember. This forum is important to share experiences, knowledge and so other people who are sick can know they are not hypochondriacs or mentally ill. Keep up the great communication.
Thank you Karen
Hi there…. these stories are so correct and I 100% are with you all on this massive battle against Blasto. I’m also ten years person and I really feel for anybody having to go through this. jacqueline lye – I with you all your points…. the best thing I did was see a nutrishionist who as help me so so much I can’t thank her enough… I’m 14 months into treatment and still fighting!!!…. we found Artemisinin the best… Glad to be able to share this information. Good luck everyone who has this as it total messes up your life, I got through hell! but I can light at the end of tunnel I’m just trying to get to it… also found about I was 100% dairy intolerant – news to me at almost 40 years old!! Andy
Good for you Andy – go for it!
I too have had this horrible horrible infliction. Picked it up in Bali in Sept 2009, i know the meal i had i was vomiting everywhere the next day. Didn’t kick in fully until April 2010 where i fought it for 6 months & cured myself with the badbugs 3 antibiotic cure. Losing 10 kilos in the process and having people ask “Whats wrong with Lee?” was very hard to explain without someone thinking you were full of it. I was wondering, i have really bad IBS now & am hoping you have some advice for my diet post-cure. I have definitely been cleared of the bug, but sometimes my bowels feel like they’re on fire & i can feel everything moving through. Please help, i really look forward to having an end to my daily pain.
Yeah I do, I think you need to lighten the load on your digestive tract as much as possible so it can heal, and I reckon that using food combining principles will help. If you go to the Directory of Helpful Links in the main site at http://blastocystis-relief.com and look for the Great Taste No Pain banner and click on that, or just go google “Sherry Brescia” if that is easier and go to her official site.
You could also have other bugs and if you have been on Meds this normally spikes a Candida outbreak this could it be it too. Look again for the links to curing Candida and this may help.
Hi Paul,
I’m a mum with a 6 & 9 year old and we’ve been suffering for years with Blasto symptoms. My eldest daughter finally was finally diagnosed with B.Hominis and me with Crypto a few months ago and we’re getting no help from our new GP.
Two questions for you:-
1) Do you have a friendly GP or know of anyone near to us in North Otago who will use the Triple Treatment method ?
2) Who do you use for testing ? Our local lab has detected once (our old GP was stunned) and nothing either before or after that one result despite extensive stool testing over the years.
Can you help with this info ?
Hi Sarah,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, regretfully I don’t recommended GP’s that are friendly to any of this, eiher here in New Zealand or anywhere close to you, and as for testing, the Metametrix testing protocols are the best that I have come across. I have done a blog entry for it titled – Blastocystis Hominis Testing – Who Does The Best Job?.
Sorry I really can’t any more helpful, when it comes to children it really breaks my heart to hear when they are suffering with this.
Hi Paul
Or can i call you GOD.
Just recieved your book today and well i havent read it all yet, but very happy so far i can understand it. I was diagnosed yesterday after a stool sample last week as i was having mucusy bloody stools with also yellow bubbly watery ones. I actually have been having symptoms for last 2 years but self diagnose myself and put it down to something i have eaten or stress because it seems to flare up when i was under pressure from work. My GP gave me the result test sheet and on it it had three +’s next to the B.Hominis results. Is that mean its worse than having one + or nothing?
Secondly if (hyperthetically) i dont do anything about it, what would be the worst thing that could happen. Cause its very new and raw to me I am scared, afraid but angry that I have got this. I feel so dirty inside and want it out now. I been reading that its not a quick fix and that I could have this for a long while. Please re assure me that I WILL rid this awful bug thats taken hostage of my insides.
Hi Paul and evrybody on this forum,
My partner and I both have overcome infections with blastocystis hominis. My partner caught the nasty bugger in Byron Bay on the Australian east coast, an area well known for its infestation with Blasto. To our knowledge it lives and thrives in the rainwater tanks and is transmitted via the droppings of the fruit bats.
Both of us had the common symptoms like weight loss, fatigue, bloating, vitamin, mineral and iron depletion etc pp…and felt lousy for months/years. After all kinds of natural/alternative treatments (black walnut hull, MMS, colloidal silver, parasite cleanse after Hulda Clark, colon cleanses, oregano oil, etc pp) we finally got rid of it with a triple antibiotic treatment. It was recommended by Dr Borody from the Centre of Digestive Diseases in Sydney.
We plans to travel in New Zealand and live and work on different farms in the North. For sure the will be drinking water from rainwater tanks!!!
MY QUSTION:
Have you heard about Blastocystis hominis infestations of drinking water in New Zealand?
I appriciate any answer or information.
Cheers, Kris
Hi Kris,
Thanks for getting in contact.
It is great to see your results in beating Blasto, I think it was fairly close to my experience, that is, weaken it as much as possible first, then look to drugs. Using drugs as a first call appears to have the most anecdotal comment as recurrences, and having it come back, and normally in a worst way.
I think in the matter of Blasto in the drinking water in New Zealand, no, I haven’t heard that at all, generally our water supplies are not too bad, but I think like anything you should be cautious and use common sense, I see you are going to be on farms and using tank water (possibly), anything that has access to animals and then can cross over into the human food/water intake process, would have to be looked at carefully. If you can boil/and/or steam distil the water for purity, the better and safer it is likely to be.
I hope that helps and enjoy your time in NZ!
After being diagnosed with IBS from a doctor, going through MANY tests to figure out what was causing my GERD,Gas pain, and bloating i never found out what it was until last July with a homeopathic doctor. I got diagnosed with blasto and candida albicans..
I’m still going through a lot but doing body ecology diet and the healing codes. i might try that oxygen therapy now as i do have the one minute cure book. thanks for the advice on that!
what were your symptoms? gas and bloating is the worst for me now
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Gosh Em, where do start, acid reflux, no appetite, huge muscular pains, feeling miserable, going to the loo was to be feared, you name it, I had it!
I wish you the best in getting on top of all your issues
Hi Paul,
I have had a second test for Blasto, to come back negative. Though it didnt take long for some symptoms to come back so was sent to a specialist and this week underwent a colonoscopy to find i have now got IBS. Do you think that the Blasto was the cause of getting this. I mentioned i had Blasto to the Gastrologist yet he seem to just fob it off. I will now live with gastrointestinal problems till i have control of this IBS.
Could you help me out with this. I am hoping that the Blasto has gone for good and to just adjust to IBS. Thanks for you help in the past.
Yes it is an interesting one Sharon, just exactly what does “IBS” mean when the doctor says this? And was it a Gastrologist that you went to, or a Gastroenterolgist? The Gastrologist normally looks at the stomach, whilst the latter does the whole digestive system.
If you have good old plain IBS (if it can ever be called that) then following food combining principles should see some relief over time – I recommend Sherry Brescia and her Great Taste No Pain system as a start.
Let us hope yes, finally, the Blastocystis bugs are indeed gone!
Happy New Year! Thank you for your informative and helpful book on this blasted bug! I don’t know how many years I have been co-existing with blasto, but was very surprised to get this diagnosis after having been diagnosed with IBS in my early 20′s -24 years ago! In August I had a very similar onset of syptoms to what I was hospitalised with in my 20′s. This time I have a GP that is willing to hang in with me to find out what is going on. I asked him to reconfirm my IBS diagnosis, having just had a friend die from bowel cancer at 45, I felt this was important. I had been seen by a gastroenterologist but never had a colonoscopy or anything like that. In fact he told me the diagnosis and said I needed to eat more weetbix! I remember swearing at him and walking out! Over the years my frustration and health led me to acupuncture, herbs, homeopathy and other alternative treatments depending on how bad the symptoms were at the time. From reading your info I can see how much of this would have worked – for a while anyway!
My GP has been fab, he is local here in Christchurch, and after testing me for nastier bowel diseases, tested my stools in Dec just to check in case there were parasites…surprise!!!
So, I have read a bit and have decided to start off with herbs. I am on Parex, practitioner only herbal tablets prescribed by my Naturopath. My GP has also suggested an antibiotic I haven’t found much feedback on – cotrimoxazole- do you know anything about it? He doesn’t guarantee its success so I will start with herbs and see how we go from there.
I will be stunned if I don’t have IBS. I lived in East Africa as a child and may have picked blasto up then, is my thought. However, getting my head around maybe not having a chronic bowel problem feels bigger to me than dealing with it just at the moment!
I am grateful to have the support of your site and info – thank you!
Hi Linda,
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