Ivermectin - Is it normal to still feel crawling and stinging on 2nd dose over 2 weeks after the 1s?

My first day I still had a few hard bites that I assume are the adult bugs biting, and a few on my scalp, my second day the same. My third day was literally hell, I felt like I had stepped on a ant bed, although the bites were small stings, which I assume are young bugs because of the way they bit. But there were hundreds of them! This time they were not only all over me but were stinging my face. I believe they are in my carpet although I spray, vacuumed and wash my bedding daily. Today I still feel the little stings and crawling on my head. but so far not as bad as yesterday. going on my fourth day of Ivermectin and I am hoping it gets better. I have been battling them for over two months and have been told by health care workers that if they can't see them. it must be all in my head. I dare them to come to my house and spend five minutes in my living room. Life has been torture; I feel like I am not really living just surviving.

Remember that all your symptoms (save maybe the crawling feeling) are due to allergies from mite proteins, and will be worse when mites die, as they fall apart and activate the allergic response again. You never know when they're all dead, as the allergy to their bodies continues days or even a week after that. You can take ivermectin as long as a month in seven doses.

So: you can safely taken an ivermectin dose every so often (at the recommended limit) until you're completely symptom-free. Hopefully your dermatologist will be considerate and give you several more doses. The CDC recommends 5 doses of 200 ug/kg on days (approximately days 1, 2, 8, 9, and 15), with consideration of two additional doses (approximately days 22 and 29) for severe infestations. That's seven doses.

They also recommend a topical scabicide. Eurax creme is soothing to the skin as well as a mite killer. You probably have some permethrin cream left over. An alternative you probably have not tried for the skin part is sulfur ointment online, and it's non-toxic for skin. It kills mites and has only a mild odor. But you'll need the ivermectin too.

The treatment for the histaminic itch is antihistamine (something like cetirizine/Zyrtec.) A Medrol dose-pack might be necessary if things get very bad and you have no contraindications (so long as you're under active treatment, short doses of steroids should be okay).