yeah it took me about four months for my body to get rid of it too -- I only had it on my one big toe, horrendous itch - the two doctor's I went to had no idea how to treat it, no tropical medicine doctors in my area. I knew what it was as soon as I returned from Jamaica, it looked kind of like a thin bright red dental floss under my skin in a zig zag. I have been on Negril Beach for like 4+ decades with never a problem. I was more aggravated with the poor medical care when I came back home than actually getting this... When I searched tripadvisor and hookworm I was dismayed to find a huge amount of problems at one of the places we stayed.