fightingpandabear
My second day of injection of ivermectin. In case last night I did not inject enough suppose 1.2mL is the right amount. I orally took ivermectin pills 12mg from india in the morning. In the evening at 7pm, I started the second injection. There are two injections on my belly, each injection is about 0.6mL and totally 1.2mL to make up around 12mg/day. In a recent paper of 2010, they do two injections daily which may be safer. But my aunt who is a 75 years old doctor can only visit me once a day. After injection I feel nothing wrong, however around 12am, I start to feel dizzy, dry mouth, and increased heart beating. I feel that if I went to sleep, I may have some problem in my brain. I stay up until 2am by watching "House of cards" for distraction. I never had this before even When I took 36mg ivermectin orally in pills which is three times of the recommended dosage. That indicate how poorly the ivermectin was absorped in the gut. The worms in my bottom moved to my leg, and shake drastically. And the worms on my belly muscle no longer move too much to bother me.
Anyway, I went to sleep eventually, waking up with dry mouth, keep on drinking water to speed up the clearance. I may decrease the dosage today. According to one paper in 2005, they do 1 day on, and 1 day off. Also I am still on 4.2 g praziquentel/day and 0.8g of abendazole/day to prevent the worms to go to the brain.
The muscle of my first injection site is still hard.
It's difficult to estimate my own ivermectin concentration since I don't have a Massspec to measure my blood concentration everyday like they did in boston general hospital. By looking for the papers of ivermectin injection, I found many of them are from north east US for treating scattering strongyloids. I started to believe more and more that I may have strongyloids rather than tapes.