Ivermectin works, but it is not understood why. It has been prescribed by doctors as a cure-all for decades. Correction-ignore this sentence: --I would say unless you get raspy-glassy in your lungs, don't use it.-- There is also ways to improve oxygen transport in your (Ithink white) blood cells with Hydroxychloroquine (if you can get it) or with sodium-chloride-acid mix (look for chloride water purification). Timing is crucial with HCQ and might kill you if you take it 3-4 days into disease. Oxygenator-meds will interfere with anti-oxidants like Vit C. Thats why I left it out. I would still only recommend to stick to 5. in OP since that has no side effects or F-up potential. Sharing a car has high potential of transmission. If atomized droplets are shed (if someone has symptoms and speaks rather loudly or coughs or sneezes) you will ingest those into lungs. The bathroom is not a worry, because you are not in the stall with someone else and the urinals/sink have enough air volume to lower risk. Same for bus ride. Virus needs to be atomized and you need to be immediately nearby to inhale it. In a situation where someone atomizes spittle near you into the open, that's a good scenario to take Equalmectin or whatever (horse Ivermectin). It is same as prescribed Ivermectin for humans, just less pure. So dose conservatively if using Equalmectin. Most casualties happen from intubation-complications or side-effects. Avoid that. Another thing you can do if you start having trouble breathing, feel tired, have lost sense of smell or taste, is this: Inhale a very low solution of iodine-povidone (Betadine). Only do this in absence of medical care. But it's an old remedy against pneumonia. You can also put it on your mask if you are in a contaminated zone.
>Ivermectin works, but it is not understood why.
Inhibits viral transport into the nucleus of the host cell which is where a lot of RNA synthesis of the virus is occuring.
Interestingly it appears to be not only broad antiviral (influenza, dengue, HIV, zika) but also anti-bacterial inhibiting leprosy, TB, flesh eating MRSA.
Ive taken a full dose and its fine. I feel very strongly after researching that it is very safe to take 2 doses as soon as you get symptoms which is when a low dose is most effective. Waiting until you get the ground glass lung condition is bad, bad, bad advice. A high risk person will have to take 10 times the amount of medication that he would have had to take initially (onset of symptoms) if he waits a week to take ivermectin or any other antiviral. The effectiveness of all these antivirals is dose dependent based on the amou t of virus in your body which is growng exponentially that first week of symptoms.
I do like HCQ as well and think it will be very effective at 400 mg / day and tolerated by almost everyone (barring a few heart/kidney patients) as long as it’s taken right after symtoms. It will be tolerated even better with a supplement of high absorption magnesium (like L-lactate) which is a qt shortener.
I also cant see any reason why you couldnt use HCQ and IVM in conjunction.
Ivm will also improve oxygenation because it is also an antithrombotic, so it’s breaking up those little blot clots in the aveoli and bloodstream.
I also think quinine will do in a pinch and you could see some significant benefits from 4 to 6 liters of schweppes tonic water a day if you start at day one of symptoms.
And let’s not forget pepcid, which seems to really help inflamation.
Im not really sure what you mean by oxygenator meds or why they interfere with C. “Stick to 5 “ what do you mean?
Excellent answer . Thanks.you have better insight. I have read what you say elsewhere but just have not had it sorted/organized. Your answer rings accurate. I did not originally want to get into recommending meds because of my lack of confidence, hence I say stick to my point 5. in OP. Vitamin C is anti-oxidant, whereas sodium-chloride and afaik HCQ is oxidant. Those two should not be combined?
I am just an asshole with an internet connection btw, I am not formally trained.
I looked up vitamin C interactions and HCQ does not seem to be one. It looks like it might mildly interact with aspirin, warfarin, nsaids, acetominofen, some antiretrovirals like ritonovir, and some tetracyclines like doxycycline. I think the biggest problem with high vitamin C is probably diarrhea.
I am a little worried about the HCQ in old fucks that have heart conditions, diabetes, and kidney dysfunction. The thing to worry about with HCQ is the cumulative dosage. After its absorbed into the cells it stays there forever (or at least a month or two) which is fine unless you get too much.
People with shitty kidneys (e.g. some diabetics) will absorb more of the drug because the kidneys take longer to clean it from the bloodstream. And people with certain heart problems or vitamin deficiencies like Vit. D, magnesium, potassium, calcium ( eg some diabetics) will be more likely to suffer prolonged QT period after taking hydroxychloroquine for several days, especially if taking with another drug like azithromycin which also prolongs the qt interval.
You can imagine how bad it would be for people with bad kidneys and a bad heart and these deficiencies. I still dont think the problem is too frequent, but you want to be cautious.
Magnesium is what they give in the hospital to treat long QT and it seems to be good to take for covid, as is vitamin D, so both these vitamins might be somewhat protective if you are taking HCQ. Unfortunately it interferes with doxycycline absorbtion which is a common covid med— one that mught be better than azithromycin— but the vitamin C interaction might cancel that out! Ugh it must be such a headache to be a pharmacist.
I think that keeping the HCQ at 400mg a day will be pretty safe for most seniors though as long as you give it with doxycyline instead of azithromycin, since that drug inhibits sars cov 2 without the QT issue.
I think the B vitamins will be good too.
So does this guy Paul Marik MD who is also a fan of Ivermectin
Here’s his “crib sheet” for covid treatments if you havent seen it. https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/Marik-Covid-Protocol-Summary.pdf
He is really into thiamine (b1) and also lipitor, which btw mildly interacts with ivermectin.
Sorry if I rambled too much. Nobody here wants my covid research because they all think covid is a jewish scam! Apparently Louis Pasteur hung out with jews, so germ theory is fake and gay. You cant make this up. I mean fuck the jews for making people this paranoid!
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