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Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week agoInteresting, ivermectin has that intense of side effects when taken orally? Or do the pseudo-science people who think it cures covid just advocate dosing it ridiculously high?
By coincidence I actually use ivermectin topically for my rosacea, a skin condition. Being a anti-parasitic its useful fro reducing the amount of demodex mites that can aggravate rosacea in some people! I know in people it’s mostly used for lice.
stormdahl@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was replying to someone that said they could use it to treat covid, which has lead to people dying. Guess I got reported by them and for some reason an admin thought it was meant as a threat?
That’s really interesting! Did you have any problems getting your hands on it when people started buying it for covid?
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Gotcha, that sucks, but I’m happy you made the journey over to Lemmy!
And oh, no I only just started using it more recently. I don’t think the topical kind was ever used by folks who thought it did something for covid anyway. I know there are also oral treatments for rosacea, but I’m not sure if oral antiparasitics are every used, since it’s just on the skin of your face that matters.
It also only got a generic over the counter version more recently, if I remember right, but now you can get it as a lotion that’s labeled for lice, but for some people it really helps with rosacea (rosacea is one of those really complicated multiple causitive factor health issues that can manifest in serveral different ways that we still only kinda sorta partially understand. Demodex mites seem to play a role in some people but not others, there’s a lot of trial and error)
The perscription version sometimes perscribed for rosacea is called Soolantra I think, its really expensive so an over the counter generic is kindof a godsend for folks whose insurance won’t cover it
stormdahl@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I had no idea about all of that. I really learned something today! Already really like Lemmy and the Fediverse, I feel like most people here put some extra thought and effort into their posts and comments. I’ve used Reddit since I was 18 and it used to be the same, but as its popularity grew I guess the “wrong” kind of people started joining and participating. I think that’s bound to happen with anything that gets really big. I’ve described some social justice movements the same way, where you had people who genuinely cared in the beginning but eventually as the movement becomes a trend the values and sentiments gets simpler, dumber and eventually unrecognizable from what the initial goal was.
By the way I think there’s a little birthday cake next to my username because I created the user today lol.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ohhh, yeah I meant the anniversary of your time on Lemmy, I didn’t realize that’s today because you just made your account. Welcome!! Lol.
And yeah it’s definitely a pattern unfortunately :/ Lemmy is far from perfect, but it has a chance to be something better than we’ve had before and I think that’s pretty cool :)