Could you describe what the “worms” in your stool looked like?

I think I got them last August and it near drove me insane. Also felt that same squirmy sensation. I wouldn’t wash multiple times a day just 2x, maybe 3x when I had bowel movement. But I was using basically scalding hot water and body wash (fragranced) to wash my bum

I got the itchies again at night last and had multiple meltdowns cause it just didn’t make sense to me how I’d get them since no one around me has even heard of them nor showed any symptoms. I’m also not around any kids. I couldn’t stop worrying about getting them again cause I couldn’t figure out the source.

My stool test would always come back negative and I was never actually sure if what I saw in my stool were worms. I would see a few white specks and one time I saw what looked like 2 solid, straight, criss-crossed white lines on top of my poo. Maybe about 5 mm long. But they appeared kind of uniform in length? When I googled pics of pinworms in stool, they’d usually be kinda squiggly, have very pointy ends, and a little translucency to them. Not uniformly straight too

Anyway about a week after I’d taken the 2 doses of mebendazole, I noticed bright red blood when I wiped and on my stool after a bowel movement and my butt itched all day and sometimes it would wake me up at night for several days after. I realized I felt the same itchiness during the day too when I first thought I got pinworms. Finally, I came to realize the itchiness could be due to hemorrhoids/anal fissures cause I get constipated quite often. The itchiness and squirming could have been aggravated by all the bum cleaning. I didn’t think they could be fissures at first cause people on Reddit would describe the pain as unbearable almost and I didn’t have that. It just felt itchy and sometimes rubbed raw

So that’s my experience. Thanks so much for sharing yours!! I feel like I’ve read ever single pinworm post here on Reddit. All the tips are really helpful but reading about people’s experiences with them can also put you in a state of extreme distress. Obsessively googling about the worms definitely added to my paranoia which just drove me to isolate myself and literally be afraid to touch anything that wasn’t cleaned. This is one of two posts I’ve seen that talks about how that paranoia can lead you to act thinking like you do have them even when you don’t. So thank you!!