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“I have the feeling that I am made up of two people traveling in different directions,” Andy L. wrote in his journal. “The person who feels ill and alone, and the person with some momentum behind them.” (Illustration by Bianca Bagnarelli/For The Washington Post)

Decades of relentless pelvic pain - until a doctor asked him one simple question

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Andy L., a philosophy student, suffered from unexplained symptoms for decades until diagnosed with schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease, after a colonoscopy revealed a granuloma. Dr. Tom Creed identified the condition linked to Andy's time in Tanzania. Treatment alleviated some symptoms, but ongoing issues persist. Andy now raises awareness about the disease, prevalent in Africa, which often goes unrecognized in the developed world.

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