My experience in India and Nepal with this was basically awful. First, explosive diarrhea when you least expect it. It is not the kind of diarrhea that you can control at all so there is no way you can stop this from happening at all. So, you might be riding in a car, in a restaurant or anywhere sort of like that funny scene in Bridesmaids where they all get explosive uncontrollable diarrhea at the same time. So, this part is really awful in that you likely are going to gross out anyone around you and yourself with the mess it creates at completely unexpected and uncontrollable times. And you might be too weak to clean any of it up and feel faint as one often does after a bout with diarrhea too.
But, this is just the first stage. The next stage is losing weight a lot and feeling weak a lot. I for example lost 25 to 30 or more pounds within a month and looked skinnier and thin like I hadn't looked since High school. Then I saw black spots before my eyes eventually too.
When we returned to California our foreign disease specialist said that any medicines we took might destroy the livers of our children so they advised since we were back in the U.S. to let this slough off on it's own. Of course this was 1986 when our children were 10 to 14 years of age (the three of them) and my two youngest daughters were not born yet until 1989 and 1996.
So, from getting this around March of 1986 we still had symptoms back in the U.S. for another 4 to 6 months from this. But, within a year our health was back to normal.
However, things like a hypothyroid condition are common from giardia from Asia but I cannot speak to American Giardia or Cyclospora here in the U.S. only what I experienced from being in India and Nepal along with 4 out of 5 of our family starting around March of 1986. So, our symptoms slowly sloughed off over about 6 months here in the U.S.
This was our experience in 1986
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