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The Best Episodes of Monsters Inside Me Season 5

Every episode of Monsters Inside Me Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monsters Inside Me Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 1 - My Daughter's Going Crazy
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #1 - My Daughter's Going Crazy

    S5:E1

    A teenage girl begins having strange mood swings from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis; an elderly mother gets chills, hand numbness, wrist pain, and oozing blisters from Vibrio vulnificus she got from being pricked by a crab while making a stew; an athletic military veteran from the Afghan war competing in reality shows returns home from Fiji feeling hotness, a pinching sensation in her arms and toes, and hallucinations from rat lungworm she got from eating a slug in a reality show in the jungle

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 2 - West Nile Attack!
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #2 - West Nile Attack!

    S5:E2

    A 6-year-old boy suffers a nasty cough, fever, and vomiting from valley fever; a newlywed husband becomes paralyzed from the waist down due to the West Nile virus; an international journalist suffers extreme stomach cramps, night sweats, chills, nausea, and fever from Entamoeba histolytica.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 3 - A Menace in My Own Backyard
    6.9/10(7 votes)

    #3 - A Menace in My Own Backyard

    S5:E3

    A 23-year-old athlete/construction worker suffers multiple grand mal seizures and high fevers from eastern equine encephalitis; a hard-edged tough guy suffers severe stomach pains and loss of appetite from accidentally swallowing a grill bristle; a 17-year-old cheerleader who recently got her driver's license suffers a swollen, itchy eye and excruciating eye pains from Acanthamoeba keratitis she got from contact lenses.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 4 - The Killer in the Lake
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #4 - The Killer in the Lake

    S5:E4

    A contractor gets hit in the head with a tool, and later starts getting a pounding headache, dizziness, spotty vision, and nausea from having a nail punctured into his brain; a football player in college gets extreme headaches, a stuffy nose, and blurred vision from Aspergillus fungi entering his brain; in 2012, an 8-year-old boy suffers constant vomiting, fatigue, seizures, and eventually dies from amoebic meningitis after being infected with Naegleria fowleri.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 5 - There's a Maggot Crawling in My What?
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #5 - There's a Maggot Crawling in My What?

    S5:E5

    A Canadian science-lover and traveler suffers a painful lesion caused by botfly larvae; a video game programmer gets suffers from constant vomiting and coughing. When doctors find a large mass in his chest, it is discovered that he has histoplasmosis, which was contracted from inhaling bat droppings in a cave; a 15-year-old girl gets an extremely sore throat, a headache, nausea, and body pains from Lemierre's syndrome.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 6 - Vampire Parasites Attack
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Vampire Parasites Attack

    S5:E6

    A war veteran suffers fatigue, high fevers, night sweats, strange rashes, bloody urine and jaundice from babesiosis; a 15-month-old baby girl suffers fever, dry mouth, vomiting and bloody diarrhea from E. coli O157:H7, whom she got from drinking raw milk; a biologist suffers extreme fatigue, back pains, anxiety, and vertigo from Aspergillus-contaminated breast implants

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 7 - A Holiday in the Hospital
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #7 - A Holiday in the Hospital

    S5:E7

    The second episode of the series to be Christmas-themed – a saleswoman gets a stabbing headaches and a constant burning sensation in her right eye from a Dirofilaria immitis worm that is in her eye; a store manager gets stomach pains, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and even a constantly moving stomach from a surgical sponge being left and forming a hole in his colon; a grandmother working in the forest service gets abdomen pains, fatigue, and pneumonia from Strongyloides stercoralis worms invading her intestines.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 8 - My Body Is Rotting
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #8 - My Body Is Rotting

    S5:E8

    A teenager gets coughing, shoulder pains, dizziness, and nausea from Cryptococcus gattii fungi invading her lungs; a saleswoman gets extreme pain in her breast from a brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) bite; a religious youth organizer gets swelling of multiple parts of the body over the course of three years from the Loa loa worm.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 9 - The Brain Colonizer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - The Brain Colonizer

    S5:E9

    A Canadian 13-month-old toddler gets breathing difficulties and mild vomiting from accidentally swallowing a button battery (for what the doctors originally thought was a coin); a college freshwoman gets migraines, nausea, on-and-off blindness, hallucination-like partial seizures, repulsive taste and two lesions in her brain from infection with Taenia solium; in 2008, a 6-year-old girl gets a headache, a rash, high fevers, and dies from Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 10 - I Smell Like Death
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #10 - I Smell Like Death

    S5:E10

    A 29-year-old man gets tooth pain and almost dies of necrotizing fasciitis caused by the bacteria Streptococcus intermedius and Peptostreptococcus; a female financial adviser gets fatigue, joint pain, mental confusion, hair loss, and muscle weakness for over three years from Lyme disease; a 7-year-old boy gets a loss of appetite, abdominal pains, a fever, diarrhea, constant vomiting, and weight loss from Cryptosporidium.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"My Daughter's Going Crazy" is the best rated episode of "Monsters Inside Me" season 5. It scored 7.6/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/9/2014. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "West Nile Attack!".