Because theres no reason to believe it does. Firstly the study that Ivermectin-for-covid is based on in vitro(cell-in-petri-dish) studies of rhesus monkey liver cells[1]. Additionally. Rhesus monkeys have differing bodies sizes and in order to get an equivalent dose in humans would require overdosing on ivermectin, which can and has lead to death. Ivermectin targets the host nuclear transport importin α/β1 heterodimer in host tissue, exerting effects directly on cells of the human body.[2]
On top of this you refer to 'long covid' which has nothing to do with the covid virus itself. Long covid is the syndrome after a person gets over a covid infection. They're not entirely sure what causes it, but damage to internal organs and the venous system have been observed[3]. At this point there is no active viral infection in your system, inhibiting viral replication is basically irrelevant. There is absolutely zero reason, even according to the logic of ivermectin-for-covid, that ivermectin would treat that damage.
Well it felt like I never really got over it. Aside from a brief period of fever, everything else stayed until ivermectin. Headache, fatigue, sob, cough, sense of smell issues, brain fog, all kinds of erratic heart problems. There's a lot of speculation that long covid results from the virus migrating into the body and organs where it persists. This makes sense with what I experienced. Symptoms I've never had before went away within hours and cleared up completely within days of starting it.
It was three months of hoping it would get better with no movement. Then five hours later I could breathe again. So physical stuff happened. I get that placebo effect can do this but still. Coincidence would be rare and I don't think long covid resolves that way, been told it is more gradual. I've heard a lot of similar reports on a covid telegram channel I'm on, same with reddit before it got overrun with trolls. You can tell genuine discourse, especially when its the same people over several days going through the same experience.
None of this is scientific. What was is the safety on it so that made it low risk to try.
