r/cancer • u/TheEvilSatanist • 4d ago
Patient Ivermectin 🙄🙄🙄
I recently went shopping at Kroger with my partner, and I was riding around in one of the little carts.
After we were done shopping, I parked the cart at the charging station and plugged it in, while I waited for my partner to bring the car around.
As I'm sitting there waiting, I put my head down on the "steering wheel" bc I feel like shit.
So this guy who works there sees me and asks if I'm okay. I explain that I have stage 4 metastatic cancer and I feel like shit.
He starts rambling off about Ivermectin and how he's seen some shit on YT and all this other bullshit.
Y'all... I legit couldn't fucking roll my eyes hard enough!
I tried to be polite and just said I'll mention it to my oncologist. He then says "if he won't give it to you, then go to another one!" I said that I have two I am consulting with, and I will ask them both.
I do actually plan on mentioning this to my oncologists, BUT only so I can tell others that I've already mentioned it to my doctors, bc I KNOW it's gonna happen again... and again... AND AGAIN!
How do y'all deal with the crunchy woo tyoes? My Satanist ass doesn't do the whole sugarcoating bullshit nonsense, I don't have the patience for it.
How do y'all deal with ignorant ass people like this?!
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u/Current-Bison-6430 4d ago
There's a woman in my support group who is doing ivermectin and fenbendazole (?) She actually had me second guessing my knee-jerk eyerolls. Shes a bit of an influencer type and also posts things from doctors who are unlicensed or chiropractora with no specialty. Its wild, and I always wonder if I should be commenting caution to her followers. She just had scans that show movement in the bones but still swears by the ivermectin because her liver is doing better. I dont know what to make of it but she has a very rah rah cheerleader energy about it in group and I think its dangerous. She's also very religious, and Im recently deconstructed, so I am sure I come across as a too liberal curmudgeon. The most I've said is she is very brave but I have twice as many years on her and that is from science backed medicines and an educated and informed (she is taking the ivermectin in concert with traditional chemo but not letting her medical team know) oncologist. I just failed another therapy, though, and what if she's onto something the scared part of me asks. Desperation can be so dangerous, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions and ivermectin, I suspect.
Lot of rambling, but it is so refreshing to have someone's first reaction to ivermectin be the same as mine.