1. Ivermectin is not an ionophore. You want a good zinc ionophore to make that zinc effective. Quercetin is a good over the counter one, and relatively safe for almost everyone. So you're missing the ionophore half of the zinc/ionophore combo.

2. Look into Eleutherococcus senticosus root, Astragalus membranaceus root, and Cordyceps sinensis fungus. There's a lot of info out there on how adaptogenic herbs like those can support the immune system. The more you go down the rabbit hole on those the crazier it gets.

Try getting some Eleutherococcus root tincture or capsules from your local health food or supplement supply store, I've been taking it for 10 years and it works really well.

Not only does it give you more energy, mental clarity, and physical endurance in general, but it also does a lot to reduce the chills/hot flashes, sweating, aches, fatigue, and general malaise that you get when sick.

Ivermectin is good for some things, but it's not my first choice here.

Eleutherococcus root, zinc/quercetin, along with vitamins C and D were what got me through the pandemic without getting covid at all.

I think the real question is, what is causing the immunity issues? At least that is what the question sounded like to me. There are hundreds of things that can help with a sickness, but the immunity is the issue. Something else is probably out of balance. OP, have you tried MMS/DMSO? Also, COPPER. It's possible you need to clean house, fix some deficiencies, and then you may not have to even deal with colds in the first place.

Read up on these:

Copper Protocol Revealing Fraud

Jim Humble's Protocol MMS/DMSO

Consider that your immune system is in overdrive, which will make it attack you, as well as the virus or bacteria. If it is bacterial, you will need antibiotics, not the best choice, but effective. To quiet the immune system, which produces Mast Cells, you have to stop triggering the Mast Cells, Mast cells fight infection, but they can go crazy, and when they do, they release toxins, histamines, the result is out of control inflammation, Mast cells line our GI tract, our respiratory system, and our skin. If they become unregulated they cause problems that also effect the nervous systems. What can help? Class 2 antihistamines like Pepcid AC, Claritin, or Allegra. I take both, consider a low histamine diet, which is a drag, but it works. Using Ibuprofen too much is a Mast Cell trigger, and can end in IBS. Gluten and wheat cause inflammation, and the histamines go crazy again. And get your throat checked for Strep. Untreated infections that fester can also trigger mast cell reactions, as do vaccines, histamines, mold, alcohol, fermented products. The Ivermectin is most likely keeping you from getting sicker, but you probably have to make some systemic changes. And keep praying, stay away from sick people, wash your hands and your fresh foods, and do not eat pre prepared foods like sandwiches at gas stations, pre made salads in bags, or mass produced potato salads, chicken salads, etc. Get well in Jesus's name, HE is the great physician, healer, and has you in HIS hands.

I have never taken Ivermectin or most other drugs. I rarely get sick I can count on one hand the amount of times in my life I have been sick and I just turned 69.

I found rather than medicine that you wash your hands a lot. Almost all viruses are spread through door nobs and other things you touch every day.

I have always accredited this for hardly ever being sick.

No doctor here, but I'd recommend a HEAVY dose of natural Vitamin C. Oranges/orange juice. Apples/apple juice. Strawberries, etc.

It's cliche, but an "apple a day keeps the doctor away" seems to work for my family. Whenever we're experiencing symptoms such as yours, we eat apples with every meal and drink apple juice and orange juice like crazy. Lots of water too.

Hope you feel better asap!

Try the Zelenko Protocol. I don't know how to put a picture in comments. Ill do a post.

For sore throats, gargle with warm salt water, as salty as you can take. It will restore your throat back to a healthy state pronto. I learned this a long time ago from the director of a touring choir, and it works.

I have since learned some science behind the remedy, and that electrolytes (i.e. minerals, i.e. salts) are essential to good health. I have been including hefty amounts of sea salt in my diet for about 2 years and haven't been sick even once since starting that practice.

FWIW, ivermectin didn't help me when I got covid (or whatever) back in 2021.

Try taking L-Lysine - I've been taking it since 2021 and haven't gotten sick once. I saw a study that showed something like 90% of nurses who took it stayed healthy. It prevents viruses from replicating!

• White Stack -- *daily, or every 3-5 days if stable and healthy:
  • Selenium 400mcg daily, along with:
  • 500 mg each daily: L-Glutamine, L-Lysine, L-Glycine, L-Tryptophan, NAC, (optional L-Methionine)
  • aka "Glutathione / Glutathione peroxidase stack"

• Supplemental Vitamins, Minerals for Immune Boosting
  • 25,000 IU Vitamin D3, daily
    • You MUST Take D vitamins with Vitamin C, 500mg
    • and K2 (as mk7 and mk4, (10mcg k2 per 1000IU of D)--so 250mcg+)
  • Vitamin B12
  • Lowest dose Vitamin B complex
  • Minerals
    • Magnesium
    • Iodine
    • Boron
    • Zinc (see yellow stack)
    • Copper
    • Iron (only as needed)
    • Keep in mind minerals compete with each other for absorption (Mg,Zn,Cu,Fe), so take them a little while apart.
  • Trace Minerals in water
  • Multivitamin to cover bases

• Yellow Stack -- every 3-5 days or daily when sick
  • Zinc 50mg
  • Any 1-3 of the following:
    • Quercetin 500mg
    • Berberine 500mg
    • EGCG 500mg
  • This is how elderberry+zinc works to reduce cold duration
  • aka "Zinc ionophore stack"

• Black Stack -- any 7 of following, use for up to 5 days only when sick
  • Oregano Extract (carvacrol, thymol, eugenol)
  • Thyme Extract (thymol)
  • Clove Extract (eugenol)
  • Andrographis Extract (andrographolide)
  • Propolis supplement (flavinoids, polyphenols, terpenes)
  • Olive Leaf Extract (oleuropein)
  • Rhodiola Extract
  • Astralagus Extract
  • Pau D'Arco
  • Fo-Ti Extract
  • Siberian Eleuthero Root Extract
  • Schisandra fruit extract
  • Turmeric Extract (curcumin)
  • Ashwaghanda Extract
  • Neem Extract
  • Black Seed Extract
  • Cat's Claw Extract
  • Garlic supplement
  • Ginger supplement
  • Cinnamon extract
  • aka "4 thieves cure", or"7 thieves cure"*, "polyphenol stack", "Spicers bomb"
  • follow up with course of probiotics

Here is a great combination, I add B~12 of 6,000 mcg. I have not been sick since 2021. https://greatawakening.win/p/1ARJczrw2b/for-valleylily-or-anyone-else-wh/c/

Prayers on the way.

I dont know if ivermectin works against regular colds.

Dear valley-lily, your description of 'it started with a really sore throat' makes me think these infections begin in your sinus. Generally one's throat gets sore due to post-nasal drip of infected sinus mucus into the back of the throat.

You probably had a bit of the sniffles or a little runny nose that preceded the sore throat, which then began the downward spiral of full-body sickness because you were unable to remove the offending antagonist.

If so, I might have an answer for how to solve this.

(Warning: Long comment ahead. Worth reading it all, though!)

MANY THINGS ARE A FACTOR, BUT LET'S TAKE THEM IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE

Let me paint the picture. When we breathe, sometimes we inhale tiny particles of a foreign body, dust, dirt, dander, smoke, chemicals, pollen or similar. A good working sinus will trap the microscopic particle(s) in the mucous membrane of the nose and throat to keep it from entering the body further. That is normal. Then it tries to push it out in various ways.

Sneezing is one. Coughing is another. Ramped up mucous production to surround it like a pearl and flush it out via runny nose is the next.

Sometimes the particle gets deeply trapped in the soft tissues of the back of the throat or deep in the sinus and the above methods cannot get it out.

Constant post-nasal drip is a symptom of a trapped foreign antagonist.

So, inflammation and infection follow, sort of like having an imbedded splinter. There will be pus, there will be redness, swelling and pain. You must 'get the splinter out' to stop all of this.

Additionally, you might have tonsil stones stuck back behind your lower molars. These can cause infection, pain and bad breath until removed. If you have the sensation of something in the back of your throat and suffer from bad breath, this may be the problem. (Look them up to learn more about them and how to remove them.)

NOW. WHAT TO DO ABOUT A SINUS THAT NEEDS HELP.

You must do a Neti pot sinus rinse at least once or twice a day until further notice. YOU MUST USE DISTILLED WATER. Distilled water is water with all minerals removed. It is sterile and 'unbalanced' and will seek to balance itself. It will literally pull particles out of the mucous membrane into itself. The salt and baking soda in the rinse will clean, deodorize and neutralize an inflamed sinus and throat.

Doing a sinus rinse in the morning as soon as you wake up and once again before bed will be very helpful. The rinse will also soften dried junk stuck up in your sinuses and pull the gunk out, freeing your membranes at last.

After you have a good Neti pot sinus rinse, follow with a good nose blow and then use Q-tips to swab out the inside of the nose, as far back as you can. You want to grab and pull out anything in there that has been loosened up. Then wash your face and wash your hands.

Remember DO NOT USE TAP WATER. Tap has bacteria in it that our stomachs can handle, but not the upper sinus. YOU MUST USE DISTILLED.

You can make your own solution with 1/4 tsp of baking soda and 1/4 tsp of sea salt in 4 oz of distilled water. Use a store-bought Neti pot or use a gravy boat, gravy strainer or creamer cup with spout. As long as it has a spout it will work.

MORE THINGS THAT MAY BE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR

DENTAL HYGIENE

Floss, brush and rinse 2x day. After your Neti pot sinus rinse, fill a cup with some warm water with baking soda and salt and do a mouth rinse and spit. Do it until the whole cup of salty water is used. It will kill germs, neutralize an acid mouth, whiten your teeth and freshen your breath!

TOOTHBRUSH & RETAINER CLEANING

Soak your toothbrushes and retainers in Peroxide after every use. Make sure you are not storing them out where they are exposed to bathroom germs like on the sink. Put them in a medicine cabinet so the toilet flush aerosols aren't getting on them. And better yet, go buy a 4-pack of soft bristled toothbrushes and throw them out after using for 30 days. Soak retainers in denture cleaner to remove bacteria and gunk.

CONTACT LENS WEARING

If you wear contacts, you must clean your storage case thoroughly or, you may be bringing bacteria into your body via your eyes. Again, don't leave the case out where toilet flush aerosols can get on it!

HAND WASHING

I recommend washing hands as soon as you walk in from outside, after you put away groceries, after petting the dog, after scratching yourself, after using the bathroom, after blowing your nose, before and after preparing or eating food, etc. You can almost never wash your hands 'too much'!

CELL PHONE, MOUSE, KEYBOARD, KEYS, STEERING WHEEL, FRONT DOOR HANDLE

I buy a bunch of bottles of 50% Isopropyl Alcohol and these round, flat cotton pads. I use these to regularly wipe down all parts of my cell phone, keys, mouse, keyboard and steering wheel. You'd be surprised how much 'foreign bacteria' we bring into our homes by simply laying our phones on the counter of the doctor's office, grocery store, cafeteria table, etc. Our hands touch filthy stair rails, grocery carts, doorknobs, table tops, etc. We then transfer the germs to our phones, keys, face, etc.

Nip this in the bud by wiping stuff down as a regular thing. Your health will thank you.

I hope this helps!

Quercetin, Zink, vitamin D, and vitamin C.

Death Metal said it well, but I will repeat, Quercetin and zinc, plus high dose vitamin C&D. Or even better Hydroxychloroquine and zinc. I think HCQ can carry something like 10x more zinc than quercetin.

Zinc cannot get into the cell or past the cell walls without an ionophore. Quercetin or HCQ, encapsulates the zinc and carries the zinc into the cell (past the cell wall) where the zinc can do its job stopping the spike protein replication.

Zinc alone is ineffective; Quercetin alone is ineffective. But used in combination, they keep the spike protein from being able to replicate. Vitamin C and D are also crucial for the complete immune system response.

Your car can have fuel and oil but without water in the radiator driving the car is catastrophic. Your body needs all the components just like an engine, not 2 of 3.

Zinc (the virus killer) and Quercetin (the ionophore that gets Zn into the cells) has always worked for me. But take them as soon as you feel the cold coming on or it will be too late. For me, the symptoms always vanish within a day.

An immune system boost can be had by supplementing iodine and selenium. The thyroid makes T4 and T3 hormones from iodine; selenium regulates the process. From a dietary point, this can be accomplished by eating more beef for iodine and Brazil nuts for selenium (also available as supplements). Easy to do if you eat keto. The typical American diet no longer provides enough iodine for the thyroid to produce high quality hormones, largely due to an industry-wide switch to using bromide as an additive to make bread soft and fluffy rather than iodine. When the iodine receptors in the thyroid can't find iodine, they grab closely related halides (such as bromide) and make a poorer quality of these important hormones.

Agree with the need for a zinc ionopore. I use quercetin, but would use quinine if Clinton hadn't blocked it from being over the counter. Hydroxychloriquine is probably more expensive than quercetin; however it is made from methylene blue which is inexpensive and readily available; I regularly will drink a few drops in a glass of lemon water. Haven't been ill since 2019, just bad knees. Knocking on wood now!

Whatever you do, work out your dosing as carefully as possible. I had labs run recently prior to another knee surgery, they showed I was supplementing too much D3. I've cut cut it back and added more time in sunshine.

Lots of good info in this thread. I'm saving it for future reference!

Check out Strep Throat! You'll need Anti Biotics if it is!

Colloidal Silver and GSE bud

Try hydroxychloroquine. Cardio Miracle helps too :) All healing blessings your way, fren!

You must take zinc with ivermectin.

Think of ivermectin as a gun and zinc as the bullet.

When I start to feel sick, I take 12mg ivermectin with a 50mg zinc pill for a few days. Wipes out the flu/cold bug fast. You should start to feel better after first dose.

I buy my ivermectin from reynold meds. Comes from India, but it's fresh and seems to works great.

You will pay via PayPal, but legit.

What are your vitamin d levels at? I keep mine just above the recommended limit.

Ivermectin is good for parasites and engineered bioweapons. For everything else you need to research what treatments work for what ails you.

However, I am not knowledgeable about medicine, even if I'm really sick I'll just take honey drops and melatonin and sleep it off.

Assumption is it is a virus and not many other issues. Try a heavy metal detox with zeolite and check for yeast infections. Is your tongue coated in the morning?does it have scalloped edges? Liver? Exposure to lime disease? See naturopathic doc. You could try beefing up your immune system by eating beef. Take time to track food and see if it’s something you ate out of the ordinary. Or just do an elimination diet aka carnivore. You are what you eat. Most nutrition comes from eggs beef, bison - meat not from plants. If you eat too little protein and fat your body cannot fight and/or repair.

Might want to check out this drug I found for my intractable GI issues (believe it was a norovirus) that I ordered online from one of these telehealth places (sorry, can't remember which one)

Nitazoxanide, it's another one of these ivermectin / fenben type anti parasitics that have anti viral and antibiotic properties across a wide spectrum

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitazoxanide
• https://www.alldaychemist.com/nizonide-500-mg.html
• https://www.goodrx.com/nitazoxanide/what-is
• https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/nitazoxanide-oral-route/description/drg-20065055
• https://pharmacy.amazon.com/dp/B08T65FNR1

You might want to post your entire intake, exposures, and daily routine for review. e.g. I saw you're drinking OJ, but e.g. is it good OJ or an "orange drink" is an important distinction.

Maybe try making a big shift and see if it isolates a factor we're missing. For example, set up at a friend's house for a week. Have them cook for you. Drink their water. Use their natural space. See if you notice any differences.

Quercetin is the only thing I'd consider adding to your mix.

Depends on you diet. If it is filled with carbs, no pill will help you.

You have AIDS

Try this: Cats Claw - 5 pumps throughout the day. 1 pump at a time under tongue. Wait 30 seconds then swallow.

I was experiencing similar to you and this knocked it out.

I didn't muscle test for ivermectin or Fenben.

Go online and purchase spike support if you are vaxxed.

Then proceed below whether appropriate or not.