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| Chris - 3/17/2026 07:42
I used to have severe allergies and they would lead to congestion that required prednisone.
Interesting - treating allergies with it. As I've said before here - I have suffered from migraine type headaches for many years. It gets especially bad after fall harvest is done and we get back to the Hills. Also when the pine pollen hits in early summer. I self-diagnosed as having over-active sinuses. The congestion would get started and trigger a migraine type headache, and it had to run it's course and blow off in an exponential fashion. Used to be, if I caught it early enough with acetaminophen and Benadryl, I sometimes could moderate it somewhat.
So, I wondered about ivermectin being anti inflammatory. I started taking it in December, and so far, it has been making life a whole lot better. Only a couple of headaches since then - I used to get them every three days or so on average - and those i had were nothing like what I used to get. I take now as needed - usually every three or four days. Dosage has been 18 mg, but I'm thinking I might get some 12 mg - or even 6 mg, and see if I can get by with a smaller dose. I shouldn't need it a good part of the year either.
I don't worry much about safety - it has been around for a long time with very good stats - even at high dosages. Plus, we used to treat thousands of cattle with it, and we get dosed with it seemingly every day for years - so, as the saying goes - so it don't bother me bother me bother me. (g)
As John always says - not advice - just what seems to work for me. For me, it definitely seems to work as an anti inflammatory, and it disrupts the feedback loop with the headache. | |
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Prednisone ?
