How SAFE is Ivermectin? - Dr William Makis (2025)

How SAFE is Ivermectin?

Conclusions (based on deaths per year):

Ivermectin is up to 15 times safer than Aspirin. Ivermectin is up to 850 times safer than Remdesivir Ivermectin is up to 17,500 times safer than COVID-19 Vaccines (!) Millions of Americans took Ivermectin but the most toxicity anyone could publish was 37 cases. 37! "Poison controls were flooded!" They told us. 37 in the entire United States. I have now followed over 1000 cancer patients on Ivermectin for up to 6 months on doses ranging from as little as 12mg a day, to 0.5mg/kg/day, to the most common 1mg/kg/day and high doses up to 2.5mg/kg/day. In my experience, Ivermectin has a very favorable side effect profile and is very safe. Transient visual symptoms are relatively common in new users, seeing colors more vividly, seeing stars, peripheral visual effects, “kaleidoscope effect”, occasional blurry vission. These disappear after minutes or hours and typically resolve after fist 1-2 weeks of use. These are uncommon at 0.5mg/kg/day but more common at 1mg/kg/day. If you want to go higher than 1mg/kg/day for an aggressive cancer, you should do it gradually (increase by 12mg at a time) and your body will ADAPT. The highest DOSE I’ve ever known someone on Ivermectin (not suggested by me) was a 40s year old Alberta Pancreatic Cancer patient who cleared his cancer entirely with 200mg Ivermectin per day for 3+ months. Once cancer free, he went back down to 100mg Ivermectin as maintenance! Effect on kidney function blood tests simply doesn’t happen (I can think of one or two cases where there may have been an issue). Effect on liver function tests is also rare, certainly less than 2%. Ivermectin can cause a very minor drop in blood pressure (5 to 10 points). Ivermectin interacts with Warfarin and certain anti-psychotic mediations, rarely used these days. With any suspected side effects, given the 18 hour half-life, you can and should stop Ivermectin for 2-3 days and it will be out of your system by the 2nd or 3rd day. I have seen occasional confusion and instability on the feet in a few cases (less than 1%) and this is mainly a concern in elderly patients ages 70+. It blows my mind when patients tell me that their Oncologist told them Ivermectin is dangerous because it will destroy their liver or kidneys. Meanwhile their oncologist is pumping them full of chemo, some of the most toxic substances known to mankind. It’s one thing for an Oncologist to be ignorant of Ivermectin, they never prescribe it so they wouldn’t know it, or its side effect profile. But they shouldn’t lie! That’s grossly unethical. Once again: Ivermectin is up to 15 times safer than Aspirin. Ivermectin is up to 850 times safer than Remdesivir Ivermectin is up to 17,500 times safer than COVID-19 Vaccines (!) Not bad for a repurposed drug that treats a wide variety of Stage 4 Cancers, often very successfully.

Source: https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1887110611668025528