8/18/2025 ~ I’ve never been sure whether I should use Ivermectin on an empty stomach, or if it’s okay to eat something before use.
Recently I’ve noticed that in pictures I take of cotton rounds with mites from my arm, or wherever, the mites as much larger black spots, without any waiting for the mites to die, than in pictures I take a few days after using Ivermectin, or after using Ivermectin with food.
8/3/2025 ~ A couple years ago I had bed bugs from the apartment upstairs.
After diatamaceous earth I stopped seeing adult bed bugs, but I was getting bitten by babies that had yet to learn to use their analgesic to stop pain from their bites. Or so I thought.
In fact, the tiny dots I wiped off my skin with alcohol on cotton rounds were not bed bugs at all. They were scabies mites, sarcoptes scabiei, from the dog in the apartment next to mine.
Want to know something scary about them? They’re arachnids. Yup, tiny spiders, with spinerettes and the whole nine yards.
During the time I didn’t know what they were, they were burrowing under my skin and laying eggs… eggs that wouldn’t be bothered by Ivermectin in the least.
Yes, once I knew what was going on with the tons of scabs and redness…
and I asked google, I got Ivermectin and within weeks the scabs and extensive redness were gone. Little did I know the eggs that had been laid by the scabies mites’ in their network of tunnels just under my skin… were fine, and could go on hatching for up to four years!
While Scabies is reknowned for causing horrific itching… little is said to explain that mainly the itching is from the scabies mites walking around in their excrement, covering the floor of their tunnels, then coming out and walking around on your skin, leaving behind “footprints” of their excrement. Lovely! (Not so much!)
I found that four and five showers a day were less effective in stopping the itching than wiping the area with a cotton round soaked in alcohol.
Problem solved, relatively solved, right? No. First of all, it’s really disturbing to feel these tiny bugs walking around on your skin: shoulders, chest, stomach, legs… EVERYPLACE, and I do mean everyplace.
Even worse is when they bite! The bites are quite painful, way out of proportion painful relative to their size. And for some reason, say you’ve been happily working on your computer, no bites, and an important call comes in… you answer, and within a minute a mite is biting you. Maybe you could keep your focus on the call, I can’t. The combination of pain and knowing the little arachnid will make itself at home in my body if I don’t do something, forces me to ask the caller if I can call back.
The worst thing, however… can you guess what it is?
The worst thing is that at night when you’re sleeping mites will be able to come out without fear of interference from you… and two days after hatching, scabies mites can lay eggs.
I think it’s eggs that leads to Scabies causing autoimmune diseases like rhumatoid arthritis. I think the eggs are so prevalent when scabies has gone untreated for as long as mine did, while I was ignorant of what was going on, that the body’s immune system becomes convinced the extensive layer of eggs is a part of the body and… begins attacking “the body”…
The scientific view is different: “An Association between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Scabies Infection,” written following a population-based study in Taiwan, and published in Journal of Medical Sciences 37(2):p 50-55, Mar–Apr 2017, and says, generally speaking,
“Scabies is a pruritic disease caused by a parasitic skin infection. Scabies is easily spread by contact with the mite Sarcoptes scabiei. About 300 million people worldwide are infected with scabies each year. Those with a lower quality of life have a greater chance of having intensely itchy skin lesions caused by scabies infection. In developing countries, the prevalence rate is high among preschool children, adolescents, and the elderly. However, scabies infection is also more common among nursing home residents, institutionalized patients, and immunocompromised persons. The pathophysiology of scabies infection is generated by hypersensitivity-like reactions, followed by immune responses.”
When I believed the mites were tiny bed bugs, I thought the reason their bites hurt was that they hadn’t learned how to use the analgesic bed bugs have, to keep people from waking up when they bite. Even when I still had bed bugs, I felt the tiny ones (mites) were the worst: “One of the things that’s so bad about the bed bugs, is the little ones. They are tiny. Look at the size of a period at the end of a sentence, they are half that big, if that. And, perhaps because they are so small, they bite more. My theory is that when they bite there’s immediate swelling, and that closes off the flow of blood, so they bite again. I think the adult bed bugs m
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Specifically, it says, “This is the first study to investigate the relationship between RA and scabies. There were 5135 subjects with scabies and 19,115 controls studied for 7 years, with a 7-year follow-up. We found that patients with scabies infections had a 46% increased risk of developing RA.”
“One of the possible reasons for this increased risk is chronic inflammation. Scabies is an infectious, inflammatory disease, and increasing evidence implicates inflammation as a critical mediator of RA. RA is a chronic immune disorder.”
My approach in trying to find a solution for myself, is to allow eggs to hatch by not using Ivermectin for a period of time. When the crop of new mites becomes more than I can bear, I use Ivermectin again, for relief.
This has been going on for three years. The mites are much smaller now, indicating… maybe… that some eggs hatch and the new mites lay smaller eggs resulting in ever smaller mites than before, and someday they will finally disappear.
It’s hard to stay hopeful, though.