Ivermectin, Clinical Use

January 29, 2021

Last week I wrote a blog entitled, Ivermectin, Cure for Covid-19?  This week I am presenting the first Covid-19 positive cases treated with Ivermectin at RMC, and posing serious questions about the course of this pandemic and medical care in the US.

I read voraciously so I can deliver to you the latest treatment modalities in medicine.   I also verify what I read with observational clinical experiences.   Over the last week I have treated 10 people positive with Covid at various stages of illness; some had chest congestion but none were critical.  Ages ranged from late 40’s to mid 70’s.  Two were high risk on medications.  All patients with acute symptoms got better within 12 hours after taking one dose of Ivermectin.   Those with fevers had their fevers break within hours of taking Ivermectin.  One person described the process of getting well with Ivermectin as something they have never felt before.   “I was lying on the couch miserable with muscle aches, severe exhaustion, and fever, and all of a sudden I felt like something inside my body ‘popped’.  My fever broke instantly and I felt absolutely fine!   I went out sledding with the grandkids in the AM thinking I’d be exhausted by afternoon, but felt great.  Three days later, I had some sniffles but again after taking Ivermectin it went away the same day.”   Another person in their second week of recovering from Covid-19  stated after weeks of not feeling well they were suddenly  “absolutely fine” after 2 doses of Ivermectin.  Three doses is the most any of my patients have needed so far.  100% were better after one dose!

As people are clambering to get in line for the experimental vaccines, and the media is focused on which experimental vaccine one is getting, how effective it is, and how often it being administered; no mention is made from the media, NIH, or CDC concerning the treatment of Covid-19 with Ivermectin and its ability to kill Covid-19, and/or the amazing clinical trials that have documented the use of Ivermectin.

In addition, no mention is made concerning side effects, long term side effects, and deaths from the Covid-19 vaccines.  No one predicts whether this year’s vaccine will still be effective in a year as the virus continues to mutate into different strains around the world.  No one knows how effective this vaccine will be in 3 months, 6 months, a year.  And yet we are being encouraged to take an experimental vaccine when there is an inexpensive and effective way of treating Covid-19.  Don’t get me wrong, the frail and ill with severe co-morbidities should get the vaccine.  However, if you are not going to die or be harmed by Covid-19, there is no reason to get the vaccine when you can take Ivermectin both prophylactically upon exposure and/or for Covid-19 symptoms.  Your own natural immunity will then build your antibodies.

Mask wearing, (see Masks 4 part series) is obviously ineffective as they are being worn currently.  The spread of disease increased to its highest rate as mask mandates were ordered by non-medical people.   Look at the Worldometer coronavirus graphs to see how the virus has a natural course of increasing and decreasing cases no matter what restrictions are placed. Compare graphs of California to Florida.  Look at what’s happening in Sweden who never shut down.

And still through all the fear of death and chronic illness from Covid-19, and every minute of every day, the media flashing the number of Covid-19 deaths on the TV screen, there was not one leading story about Ivermectin and its 30 plus controlled clinic trials favoring the use of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19.*  Not one.

Other countries have already promoted its use, such as India, resulting in far lower death rate of 111 per million than the US’s current 1200 deaths/million.****

To me, the fact Ivermectin was not even reviewed by NIH for 6 months during the height of the pandemic is a crime against humanity.   Thousands of people have died because of their lack of attention to the clinical trials.  Even after Senate hearings listening to physicians pleading for its use Dec 9th, 2020, NIH did not immediately change their recommendations against using Ivermectin for Covid.   In a pandemic, when time is precious, and other medications were fast tracked, why was a repurposed medication with little side effects not reviewed for 6 months?

It was finally after the FLCCC (Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care) physicians presented their rebuttal to NIH’s objections to Ivermectin’s use, making it obvious NIH was not up to date on the voluminous clinical trials.  Finally, around January 20, 2021, NIH “dropped its recommendation against the inexpensive antiparasitic drug Ivermectin for treatment of Covid-19, and the agency now advises it can’t recommend for or against its use, leaving the decision to physicians and their patients”.***  To date, the CDC, still does not have the latest statement updated on their website.

To me, the use of an inexpensive drug with little side effects, proven to be effective in clinical controlled trials for prophylaxis, out-patient treatment, in hospital treatment, and ICU treatment of Covid-19 is something to be shouted from the roof tops!

I present this to you so you can spread the word, ask your PCP about it, have the references and the clinical trials backing it.   Time is of the essence as more and more people will die and/or suffer needlessly of this disease.

In closing, Ivermectin, although sold over the counter in Farm and Fleet and Tractor Supply to deworm animals without prescription, is relatively hard to get for humans with a prescription.  One CVS pharmacy refused to fill my prescription because I didn’t follow the ‘correct dosing’ for parasites.  The dosing written was recommended by FLCCC,  but the last update CVS had from the CDC concerning Ivermectin was from August 2020.

Barring all this, a physician has the right to use medication off-label if it is the best treatment for a patient.  The treatment of a patient should not be determined by a pharmacy or an insurance company.

Have an awesome day knowing there is great hope and work in the efforts to abolish Covid-19 for good.  Spread the word.  Lives can be saved.  Thank you for your help.

Dr. D

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