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[quote=Anonymous]OP again. I am very real, sad to say. (But my doctor has since told me we don't need to order the expensive lab test, just the ones that Medicare will cover, and we will probably get enough info from that.)

To the farmer: I am incredibly surprised, too, just as I was very surprised to see 1 cm worms (or worm-like creatures) in the sauce. But I found some weird soft pod things in my stool too. Regarding cysticercosis, according to the CDC, "A pig eats the [tapeworm] eggs in the stool. The eggs develop into larvae inside the pig and form cysts (called cysticercosis) in the pig's muscles or other tissues. The infection with the cysts is called cysticercosis. Humans who eat undercooked or raw infected pork swallow the cysts in the meat. The larvae then come out of their cysts in the human gut and develop into adult tapeworms, completing the cycle."

When humans have the tapeworms in their intestines, it is called taeniasis. When pigs (or humans) have the larval cysts of the tapeworm, it is called cysticercosis. It seems I ingested larval cysts which then dissolved in my stomach acid, releasing tapeworm larvae. They seem to be about 1 cm, not that I was poking around too much. But without treatment they will grow to adult tapeworms in 2 months, at which time they would be several feet long or even much longer, and they release large numbers of segments and eggs, and it is even grosser than I already thought.

So... I don't have adult tapeworms yet. I have newly-released larvae. I wish I knew for sure, because the preferred treatment is different for taeniasis than for most of the other intestinal parasites, but I'll know in a few days and I think/hope the medication I'm starting will still work.

Sorry. Btw I spent hours sanitizing the kitchen and everything I might have touched within it in recent days.
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