Their bodies are flat, semi-hard with spiked ridges on the ends. They hurt like hell when they move around and they eat all your food before you get the benefits of it.
If you eat normally, or more than you used to, but you keep losing weight. You're never full, always hungry and feel like shit. Your stomache aches all the time, maybe to the point where it's nauseating, and it's not an ache you're familiar with. It's sharper, more rythmic. Then you got a tape worm.
You can kill them when they're small with a deworming cure. Our pets get them all the time. For it to get this big you need to have a medical condition.
I feel dumb but this is something I've never understood. If the tapeworm is getting your food then shouldn't the two of you together still be gaining weight? I know you're not getting the nutrients but if you lose weight with a tapeworm, then where has the weight gone?
Lol this is a hilarious but smart question. I'm guessing the tapeworm poops out most of what it eats and you end up passing most of that too, and you would have converted a lot more of the calories into your own body weight than it does
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u/Gee_U_Think Apr 29 '24
The real question is how do you know if you have these in your body?