Frens- My mom developed what looks like a small ball on the bottom of her eye over some months. It is partially in the waterline. She refused to go to the doctor for reasons we can all understand. The size of this ball was a bit smaller in diameter than the back of a pen, or a pencil eraser. It became reddened, and started getting painful. She decides to go see her doctor. Doctor says it's cancer, and refers her to a specialist which she's still waiting to see. I asked her if she would like to try Ivermectin, and MMS while she waits. (If that failed then I was going to have her try fenbendazole.) She says yes.
I saw her today and couldn't believe my eyes. I don't think she could either. It's been a week and a half. The size of this mass is 1/2 what it was, no longer red or painful. This improvement was reached with (1) dose of Ivermectin according to her bodyweight, per day, and 2 drop doses of MMS 1-2x per day. She is taking it slow because I don't think she had a lot of faith it would do anything. Because she's taking both the Ivermectin and the MMS (internally and applied topically), I can't say 100% it's one over the other. But I can tell you I've never seen anything work so fast in my life. We don't know what the industry standard treatment protocol is for something like this. We assumed it would be some kind of cutting or radiation which she doesn't want.
We wanted to take before and after pictures, and we wanted to tell her doctor, but decided against it. Dr's simply can't be trusted anymore. I'm going to take a picture of it for our own before and after to put in our own medical reference manual. She's going to stay on it another week, then take a week break, then start again. Her appointment is at the end of May. I told her if we continue to see improvement we can reschedule the appointment, and give this a little more time to work. If/When it goes away she's planning on going to the dr for a follow up to see what he says. I thought you should know.
Not anywhere near as serious as cancer, but ivermectin cleared up my really bad papulopustular rosacea, which wouldn't respond to any other treatment and was really affecting my self-confidence. After doing some research, I found studies that link this type of rosacea to demodex mites, and the pustules are caused by the mites' crap causing an immune reaction. I took horse paste, and in a month my skin was at least 95% cleared up. Ivermectin truly is an amazing thing. Somehow, I doubt if I had gone to a dermatologist, they would have prescribed oral ivermectin. They probably would have just made me buy expensive prescription creams that wouldn't have done anything.
Mind sharing how much and often you took? Was it daily for a month by weight? Or topical?
I took a full dose (based on my weight) of horse paste each night for 2 days, then a half dose each night for another 2 weeks. I probably could have stopped with the 2 doses, but I wanted to be sure to get rid of the mites. I'm planning on doing another full dose once a month to keep them away.
Ty - gonna give it a try, maybe topical too.
I have a friend who was prescribed a treatment from her doctor for rosacea and it is, in fact, topical ivermectin. It's called Soolantra. She says it works great. She washes her face, lets it dry totally (about 15 minutes), then puts a "very thin layer" of the cream on. It's expensive, but her insurance covers it, so it costs her the $20 co-pay. She says the one tube will probably last her for years.
Yeah, I had read about Soolantra, but I was trying to avoid going to a dermotologist (I don't have insurance). One of the studies I had read indicated that oral ivermectin was more effective than the topical, so I figured I'd give it a try, since I have a bunch of it on hand.
I didn’t research that far but saw Soolantra is only 1% and paste is 1.87% so sticking with paste for either application.
Ty for sharing!
I agree, 100%. Glad it helped you too.