[Susanna77]

I rooted around the internet for a while to see what was needed and decided to concentrate on things I either had or could get hold of easily. Raw garlic is good.

Oh I love garlic. In fact I just had a chick pea salad with lots of raw garlic (much to my husband's disgust). I wouldn't eat a whole clove but in bits mixed in a salad or beans is lovely. I also use it daily in my cooking but perhaps when it's cooked it's not as good.

I am also taking Wormwood and Quassia along with black walnut, drinking oregano tea (oregano oil seems to work well too).

Going to look for oregano tea today when I go shopping.

All the other things you mention I will look late/research r when I get back from the supermarket.

Has your Doctor checked to see if your liver and/or pancreas is inflamed or enlarged? I have been going this alone because the NHS is so hopeless. Testing would be pretty non-existent, but I think I might just go along on Tuesday and see if the Doctor would send me to get my eosinophil levels and C-reactive checked.

My doctor has not checked yet for pancreas. The liver was checked within the blood tests I did and seemed fine. I am a bit concerned about the pancreas side of things. I know I've always had sugar imbalance but not sure how long this infection that shows in the C-reactive has been there (only found out in October and it showed again). Unfortunately, I am only getting all these tests because I have private health insurance. The doctors kept giving me one blood test while fasting in the morning and that was it (same in the UK when I lived there), when they should really monitor you for a few hours to see how your body reacted to sugar. (I usually get tested once a year but only in October did I get checked with the proper test for diabetes).

But when you go private then they pay more attention and ask for more tests (I wonder why...cough cough).

I do have health insurance though, otherwise between my husband and I we'd have spent thousands by now if we didn't have it. The alternative would be to carry on feeling ill until we dropped. (Husband has VERY high cholestrol).

Is your Doctor someone who might be open to the idea of parasites? How did you or he pick up the fasting blood sugar problem - did you show symptoms of diabetes?

I'm not sure. My mum knows a doctor who is very open to it. In fact she says the only way to really tell is by having the faeces checked, but she says labs hate doing it because it puts the lab environment at risk, so the doctors don't even bother referring people to these kind of tests. She also thinks everybody should take "de-worming" tablets once a year.

Interestingly, my husband showed parasites in his blood, about 2-3 years ago and we all had to take these tablets. He was clear since.

Ginko: your post freaked me out. I have to read it again carefully when I return. Very interesting though. Thank you for your input.

As a side note: I'm going to be taking Vitamin C (2g) a day again and acidophilus (which I usually do anyway to keep candida at bay).
Also, I did a bit of research on eating cheak peas and beans (I love both) and these seem great to control blood sugar levels but not sure on its effect on parasites (that is, do the parasites feed on this type of food). Something else to look at.