I buy ivermectin from ValleyVet.com, no Rx needed. Buy syringes and needles so you can access the liquid. I buy the 500 cc bottles and they last us about a year. We've been doing this for 4 years, long before C hit.

I've never tried the paste, but would if needed. I would not use the pour on, no way to accurately dose it.

We homestead and have sheep and goats, so we keep supplies on hand for them and numerous meds as well. Ivermectin and fenbendazole are two that we can use too. Fenbendazole comes in capsule/tablets as well as liquid. Can be bought on any vet website or on amazon. It is a stronger version of ivermectin basically, chemically a little different.

Ivermectin is one of the 3 safest meds in the world and doesn't really interact with other meds. Fenbendazole does, as does HCQ (hydrochloroquin) also known as Plaquenil (used to treat auto immune diseases). Quinine is a cousin of HCQ.

Always check drugs.com or another med checker with your current meds...

We generally take the cranberry extract and antibiotics 2-3 times a year to break open any cysts we can, and kill them off. We avoid stevia and as many other biofilm busters as we can in our food and drinks too, because this often causes a flare we don't want or expect...

We take the ivermectin continually because the parasitic aspect is always there, antbiotics don't kill them off. A nice fringe benefit is that we never got C even though we never wear masks, travel 18 hours one way to our off grid property and back again numerous times throughout the year, and don't use hand sanitizer (so toxic!). I have one adult son with autsim who refuses to take any meds at all, he got Covid. But he woke up with it and I gave him my whole C protocol which included ivermectin...within 12 hours he was better, within 24 it was gone except a mild cough, within 48 hours the cough was gone. He had full on C, and it was completely gone in 48 hours...so that's nice ;)

So biofilms form to protect the bacteria and baby bacteria - the body cannot gain entrance to destroy them. They must have the outer layer worn down, broken, cracked, etc with a biofilm buster.

As the biofilm buster is working, the person needs to take antibiotics and antiparasitics so when the cysts/biofilm centers open and the bacteria is released, the bacteria are met with deadly force. Everything works in sync beautifully and the bacteria die without reproducing new cysts to hide in... But there are always a few cysts that remain. Hence never able to fully be free from Lyme, this is called chronic Lyme. This is why doctors who treat Lyme keep patients on biofilm busters and antibiotics for YEARS...to break as many open and kill off the bacteria as possible. However, as my family knows, taking those meds long term can destroy your stomach and gut, and cause liver issues.

Once you've been treated heavily for weeks, months, years...then you treat when you have a flare.

A biofilm buster can also be cranberry extract - this is a very very very strong one, so strong some of my kids can't take it full strength, it literally opens so many cysts and floods the body with bacteria that get killed off, my kids end up in bed for a week or more unable to do anything but get to the bathroom and back. I use fresh cranberries and Everclear (120 or 190 proof alcohol) to extract everything from those cranberries...powerful medicine there...

There are natural powders you can get on Amazon too, a mix of different herbs. There are phytochemicals that work as well - lots of options. We've done that for years, but stopped because of low funds. Now we use cranberry extract exclusively.

This link shows a number of them: https://health.selfdecode.com/blog/44-science-backed-ways-to-inhibit-biofilms-naturally-with-references/

There is a cycle, I'll explain in next comment.

One of the things a Lyme Literate Doctor will do is put you on several things at once. An antibiotic to kill the bacteria aspect, an anti-parasitic to kill the parasites, and a biofilm buster to wear down the outer lining of the cysts the bacteria form and force the baby bacteria out into the bloodstream before they are ready where they are killed by the antibiotics. This is why you never use a biofilm buster without starting antibiotics a week or so in advance and continuing to take it for weeks, months, even years afterwards. They all work in sync, if one is missing, you're body and its ability to fight Lyme bacteria is out of sync.

Biofilm busters can be medications, but some really good ones are stevia (never use stevia in food or drinks for sweeteners unless you are on an antibiotic, it helps release the bacteria into the blood otherwise with nothing set up to kill them off). Stevia makes some people very sick, because they don't know they have tick diseases...

You must gauge any meds you take based on how your body responds. If you get too sick early on, ease up and take your time moving into treating yourself - you're not in a race, you're on a journey with recovery here. Slow and steady works too, even if it takes longer.

For us, we worked up slowly with tetracycline or doxycycline (what I could get online from overseas). Once we were on full dosage (twice a day, 100 mg) we kept that going for 6-8 weeks. Take it with food or you'll be nauseated for hours.

When we started the doxy, we started the ivermectin. For ivm, we took 1 cc orally for 4 straight days, then we took 1 cc every 4 days and still do. That is a maintenance dose. If we feel a flare coming on (because Lyme bacteria hide in cysts inside the body - you need a biofilm buster to break those open and kill them off) they can break open and reinfect at any time, but usually when you're under stress. We go back to the 4 days in a row at that point, then maintenance again.