Ivermectin - recommended dosage?

I'd like to add ivermectin to my current treatment regimen but have encountered a lot of conflicting information about the appropriate dose. Standard dosage (according to Drugs.com) would rarely exceed 12 mg per day, but I've seen posts on this forum talking about 48 mg per day for weeks at a time.

In this excellent thread by ChickenArise (https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3749069), he recommends 24 mg per day for 4 days, followed by 10 days off, then 24 mg per day for 3 days, then 10 days off, then 2 days, then 1 day.

I'm leaning toward trying this, but I'd be very interested in hearing the advice/experience of anyone who may have used ivermectin before.

Thanks!

Thanks, Astroman. I skimmed most of the thread, but that 12 mg x 4 is mentioned in a few other threads as well. I'm nervous to try so much without medical supervision, although I have taken 12 mg for 4-5 days in the past without issue.

I'd like to think the reduction in activity in the forum is due to people getting better - there's a a lot of good information out there these days, and lot more options than there used to be. I can't imagine how hard this would have been a decade or two ago.

Interesting about the coronavirus link - I wasn't aware of that. Like disulfuram, it appears to be somewhat of a miracle drug. I'll never understand why it's only given to animals in the US.

Thanks, magoo2. Did you do any blood work while taking it?

scroggrins-no blood work

I have not had this virus. If I do get this virus my first line of defense is the use of ultraviolet blood irradiation.

If for some reason I couln't get to my machine, I would do the following for this drug.

First of all I use a horse paste on my dogs to de=worm them. Since this paste says for animals of 1,250 lbs. I would take the paste, run it along the top of a paper place (like caulking a window) then I would put it in the fridge.

After it froze I would cut it into 12 equal pieces. I figure each piece is for 100 lbs of body weight, or put another way .56 of a gram per 100 lbs. In my case I would take 2 pieces. I would then wait 24 hours and depending on how I felt would take 1 piece.

But, more testing needs to be done on this. However, I just purchased 2 new tubes of this at Wal-Mart today. I have a couple of tubes already and an almost empty tube which I have been using to treat my 5 dogs!

Many years ago I used Atguard Pig Wormer for my dogs. It was great.

I use the horse womer because I can purchase it with no hassel, also it will kill the microfiliaria. In essence heart worm. I dose the dog, wait 5 days an then dose them again to kill any eggs which were not killed the first time.

To check this out, a small sample of feces is taken, centrifuged, then the surface is scraped and observed through a microscope...can see the little critters moving,do this before and after treatment!

Yep!

Simple math, dose per 100 lbs, so a 150 lb animal would take 1 and 1/2 piece of the frozen paste.

I don't know how to make it any simpler than this. So, one tube would treat 6 people each weighting 200 lbs.

Or we could go the number of angels that can stand on the head of a pin, are we talking fat angels, or skinny angels?

That's the dosage for a 1,250 lb animal. So this drug come's out at .56 of a gram per 100 lbs of body weight.

I have also found that this is quite a forgiving dog wormer. I accidently got side tracked and gave one of the little dog's (10 lbs) the dosage for my 30 lb animal. The baby is still around!

A choice between taking too much and dying....let's see what kind of mood the wife is in today, I just might begin thinking of death as ESCAPE!

I would go see Dr Yu- he clearly has the experience

I purchased some of the apple flavored horse paste in case I get the virus. I do have heart issues, and I read that you're not supposed to take it with heart issues. If I needed to take it, maybe I could just take 1/2 the dose.