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by SomeCollegeBro 1750 days ago
What exactly did ivermectin do for you? Did you have covid or did you take it as a preventative measure for a long period of time?
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Preventive measure before vaccines were available. I think it was 0.1 mg/kg/week, so two 3mg pills every Monday for... maybe a couple of months.

Dosage is reasonable, safety profile is very good, the only doubt I had was if the veterinarian version is in any way worse. But the waters were already muddied even back then, so I could't find relevant info.

You may want to recall that before vaccines, we were all pretty afraid. Now the matter is academic - we have about the same risk as from a bad flu. But last year... I'd have taken pills with the picture of a cockroach on them, when faced with 20% of long covid. I still think it was a very sane choice.