Ivermectin worked for me, my son and my wife. And when my wife took it it had a very surprising upside. You see my wife has had severe acid reflux. We even had to tip our bed so it was not flat. She has been rotating through various pills for this for like 10 years. It sometimes gets so bad that food gets stuck and she cant swallow due to the swelling and throat inflammation. She has eaten a truck load of antiacids and tons of prescription pills.
After taking the ivermectin when she was very sick from covid/flu she has not had acid reflux since. Its been a month and its gone. Not reduced but gone. This is the first time in over 10 years where she is not being tortured daily by it.
The funny thing is that she knew I was taking tons of ivermectin, my son took it, but she fought me on taking it until she was very sick. Its almost like she hates to admit that I was right and the acid reflux is a super bonus.
I have chronic reflux, and have to use a large wedge in the bed to prop me up. There are several reasons for reflux...the most common being a corruption of the esophageal opening in the diaphragm, known as a hiatal hernia. A more uncommon cause of reflux is a heliobacter pylori infection in the stomach. That would make sense if the ivermectin cured the reflux, by wiping out the infection.
Another is actually too little stomach acid. Betaine HCL with Pepsin can usually turn it around.
I have had horrible GERD for decades, I even had surgery for hiatal hernia when I was younger. Sleeping in a bed has not been an option, even with the head of the bed raised by any of the neat tricks people use. I have been sleeping in a recliner for nearly 3 decades so that I can stay more upright to minimize the GERD to a point where it's livable.
Here's what I found a couple of years ago through many hours of internet research: The LES (lower esophageal sphincter, the muscle that separates the esophagus from the stomach) is supposed to close when you have food in the stomach being digested to keep the acid and food from flowing backwards up into the esophagus (GERD). Until a few years ago, nobody knew what caused the LES to open and close, but now they have figured it out. It is controlled by the acidity of your stomach. In order to be stimulated to close, the pH in your stomach needs to be 2.0 or LOWER (extremely acidic), maybe 2.5 at the absolute highest for some people. So by taking medications that stop your stomach from producing acid, you are doing the WORST POSSIBLE THING YOU CAN DO by making your stomach less acidic and raising the pH of your stomach above that 2.0-2.5 threshold so that the sphincter remains open and allows reflux. In spite of this, every doctor I have gone to in the last 5 years has still tried to bully me back on to the pills (I quit taking them after well over 20 years once I found out the truth). My reflux is much more under control since I stopped taking acid blockers.
Even worse? The FDA added a warning to proton pump inhibitors several years ago (which I never heard about until my research) which says that you should not take them for more than 3 consecutive weeks, and should not take them for more than 5 weeks out of each calendar year because of several very serious side effects that they can cause, some of which can be permanent (like damaging the nerves that control your digestive system, possibly forcing you onto a gastric feeding tube for the rest of your life). In spite of this warning from the FDA, the first thing done for GERD patients by every single doctor I know of is to prescribe these pills to be taken 365 days a year for the rest of their lives. If you say no, many of them will try to bully you into changing your mind. DON'T DO IT!
It’s such a shame.