I am currently dealing with covid, hit me hard early this past Saturday. Tested positive Sunday, got ivermectin called in for me. In two doses I feel like I don’t have covid. Not vaccinated, but I am telling u ask for ivermectin. It is a shame this is not accepted, this medicine would keep people out of the hospital they could start taking immediately after testing positive.
@mrhickory ,
@stevesawbone would love your comments
I’m glad you are feeling better. This is the difficulty in a disease in which only 2-3% of patients (less than 50) who contract it will ever progress to the point of hospitalization. Meaning you had a 97-98% chance of getting better with no intervention. Anecdotally, we have admitted many patients who were taking Ivermectin from the time of diagnosis (and some taking it before as a prophylactic). The thing is, if you are the person’s immune system that reacts violently to COVID, then you are going to decline no matter what we give you or what you were taking previously once you get to us. Our Ivermectin patients have declined at the same rate as everyone else once they reach the hospital. If they tip past the point of high flow oxygen, there is a predictable decline. I don’t believe (anecdotally) that there is a miracle cure out there at this point. But maybe something will come along that is.
There are ongoing large (random controlled) studies ongoing with Ivermectin (
@Rusty Strings) that will answer this relatively definitively than the smaller observational studies.
Also, we have admitted more than a handful of patients that have had severe liver toxicity from Ivermectin. At least 3 that will require transplant if they ever make it to that point. Be careful with dosing as that there are some protocols being advocated on the internets that are quite dangerous.
However, over the last two months, we have gotten more patients off the vent than before and turned some around quicker (likely the function of a younger population). Also, other good news is that delta has likely brought many places very close to herd immunity. Hopefully, between natural immunity (if it holds) and vaccinations and boosters (if they hold), we won’t see spikes like we did in January and August.
All to say, I’m glad you’re still around OP. Glad you are feeling better my man!