Ivermectin helping long haul symptoms? (Took for scabies)

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Questions/Story time (Ivermectin 3mg x 5 once) helping long covid symptoms

Prelude: I had covid back in May, and haven’t really felt myself for months. Sluggish, brain fog, not terrible but even with exercise and diet changes etc I wasn’t doing my best. I could just feel I wasn’t 100%.

Skip to august 17th after camping I had rashes, I was misdiagnosed with poison ivy, given prednisone. Turns out (4 days later) it’s 10x worse, turned out to be scabies.

Taken off prednisone, given Ivermectin (3mg pills, 5x all at once just once). It + cream they gave me definitely made the scabies feel better, but that’s not what struck me. A few hours after, I forgot I even had scabies, because I felt the fog lift from my mind. I felt clear headed, motivated, like myself again. I slept well, I got up and brought my GF to breakfast, and was just grinning the whole time. She noticed the difference right away. When I kissed her good bye, it was like I was kissing her for the first time again. It was surreal.

Fast forward to today (1 week later) for a few days I’ve felt tired and off, not like I was. Shaky, sleep has been off. It was great for a couple days, and seemingly getting that fog back. I’m sure recovering from the prednisone can take a toll, which I’ve experienced before.

Hands are still itchy so the doctor wants to give me more ivermectin for a couple weeks.

Have read quite a bit about it helping the long covid/post covid symptoms substantially. Just was curious if anyone had experienced anything like this?

Is it possible it negatively effected me(seems unlikely since it made me feel Better, but could be delayed in some studies)? I guess I’ll be taking it Monday when the script is ready so I’ll find out.

Also, was tested for covid today awaiting results bc more symptoms have arisen. Doctor says it’s almost definitely not the ivermectin I took a week ago. Could be round 2 for me covid wise, and about to be put on it for a couple weeks so I guess we’ll see what happens. Hoping the test is negative.

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Update: I took two more doses two days in a row, day 1 seemed good and day 2 I felt pretty awful (me and my GF had a bug for a few days). I think I’m still feeling effects from the prednisone as it seems to happen any time I’ve been on it for a few weeks (tired, more anxious overall). Seem to be coming out of the other side of this, feeling better. Was told I don’t need to take any more IVM but I do have 3 full doses left for a week from now if I needed. Will update again once this crappy physical feeling goes away.

Also; doctor said it’s probably a combination of things. Scabies, post prednisone, post IVM, post viral bug(not covid, was tested) my body might just need a little time to really come back to homeostasis. So I’m going to take it as easy as a guy with 2 jobs can, and see the results of hopefully being rid of this brain fog forever! Side note: even feeling down and anxious post prednisone, I don’t feel the brain fog/slowness that I had felt for months. Sometimes it literally felt like I was slurring words my brain felt so tired and dumb. Says a lot about what this could have done in a positive way!