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Ivermectin for my Cold: How it Went

Disclaimer: please note I'm not a medical professional. 

Last week I took ivermectin for what turned out to be a cold. I'd been feeling tired and had a little congestion, but didn't feel sick until Monday morning. I took a COVID test Tuesday (the soonest I could get one), and Tuesday evening started taking ivermectin. 

I immediately felt better. Maybe there was a placebo effect; maybe it really started working that fast. Still, I got very tired early in the evening Tuesday and Wednesday, which is unusual for me, and had a runny nose. But the mildly miserable feeling you get when you're fighting a cold was gone. I am still coughing, but it's a dry, itchy cough. The only other cold remedies I took were a few doses of Mucinex and lots of cough drops. I felt well enough yesterday to go out in the cold and plant some fountain grass. I'd have planted the 15 coral bell plants I bought on sale, but it got dark. Today has been snowy and windy. 

The ivermectin affected my vision. It was like looking through a black screen--not exactly, but that's the best way I can describe it. Or like when you've been in the sun too long. I especially noticed it in the lower part of my field of vision. It was harder to see things in the dark, too. My vision was a little off this morning, but is now back to normal. (I stopped taking the ivermectin Thursday evening--I ran out.) I've seen comments online from people who had the same side effect, but nobody said they had to see a doctor or that the side effect was permanent or got worse.

I slept very sound. I usually wake up a few times in the night and go right back to sleep, but I slept all night a couple of times. I didn't wake up groggy, either. 

Yesterday I tried to buy more ivermectin at Tractor Supply, but they were sold out. I ordered more. 

I'll repeat my disclaimer: I'm not a medical professional. I am a former engineer and pretty good at math. Contrary to popular belief, engineering students don't spend their days learning appliance repair. If you're familiar with Dr. Richard Bernstein, who's also a former engineer, his book Diabetes Solution contains the sort of calculations engineering students do daily. If you're unable to do such calculations, I don't recommend trying to figure out a dose of horse ivermectin for yourself. Nor would I recommend getting a horse dewormer with other medications in it. As a former employer used to say, "When in doubt, don't."

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Jan said…
Thanks so much for the diary of Iver during your cold. Always appreciate first-hand reports in our current world of mass hypnosis by MSM. We Undoctored have to hang in there! Do you know if FLCCC is best source for dosing info on animal sources? Thanks!
October 21, 2022
Lori Miller said…
Jan, I calculated my own dose. I'm not familiar with the FLCCC site, but I'd be surprised if they have recommendations for human consumption of veterinary products.

I've found something that worked even better this week...remember Dr. Davis's remarks about microbes beating pharmaceuticals in trials? I'll post about it later.
October 21, 2022
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