"I wonder if it can be derived from a vegan source, I don't know if I could swallow it knowing it comes from worm carcasses!"

Oh, I hear you. I found it creepy too. I'm a vegetarian so there was an ethical debate going on in my mind as well about the thousands or ultimately millions of little lives that would be taken if I chose to use the stuff (demand drives supply). But when I started waking up with some of my fingers painfully cramped into the fist position and two of them started doing the trigger finger thing, I became desperate. So much so, that I would have ingested doggy doo if there was some validation that it might help .

Quite honestly, it was quite an emotional struggle to try it.
Ever since the first capsule went down the hatch, I thank the little silk worms that died so that I might regain some function every time that I swallow a capsule.
I also wish and pray that they will come back as a better thing .

With love, Erika