Malarone - anti malarial side effects
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Has anyone got experience of taking these pills?
I started on them yesterday and started feeling queasy about an hour after. Today I'm still feeling a bit wierd, slightly nauseous and bad stomach. Toastgirl is taking the same and is feeling fine.
I travel tomorrow evening, so there's still a chance to see the docs before but I wondered if this is likely to be temporary and I'll adjust after a couple of days.
Any advice?
I started on them yesterday and started feeling queasy about an hour after. Today I'm still feeling a bit wierd, slightly nauseous and bad stomach. Toastgirl is taking the same and is feeling fine.
I travel tomorrow evening, so there's still a chance to see the docs before but I wondered if this is likely to be temporary and I'll adjust after a couple of days.
Any advice?
Go to South Africa fairly regularly and take malarone.
I suffer as you with nausea and a feeling of being 'off-centre' on the pills, also make me a little light headed. You sound like you have the symptoms a little worse.
The OH - it has no ill affects. Typical.
Doesn't last long with me 3-5 days. I did check with doctor - you should as well.
I suffer as you with nausea and a feeling of being 'off-centre' on the pills, also make me a little light headed. You sound like you have the symptoms a little worse.
The OH - it has no ill affects. Typical.
Doesn't last long with me 3-5 days. I did check with doctor - you should as well.
Been travelling to African s
t holes for years and never taken a single tablet. In some case they won't block the disease and will give the docs back home a wrong reading. And as you can see, they're a bit toxic. How long are you going for? Chances are that by the time you know you have it you'll be back into the carefull hands of the NHS 
This wiki read is interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
Industrial strength insect repellent + tight mosquito nets and no lights has worked better for me. that's my 2 pence anyway.
t holes for years and never taken a single tablet. In some case they won't block the disease and will give the docs back home a wrong reading. And as you can see, they're a bit toxic. How long are you going for? Chances are that by the time you know you have it you'll be back into the carefull hands of the NHS This wiki read is interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
Industrial strength insect repellent + tight mosquito nets and no lights has worked better for me. that's my 2 pence anyway.
Add to JB -for the house -try one of the electric deterrents -heats up a pad which deters/kills mozzies . Don't deter house spiders/gekos-their diet is things like mozzies hiding in little cracks .As for outdoors -stick a bit of garlic in you're food -spent 3 and a half years working day and night in the African bush and never had a problem .
toastboy said:
Has anyone got experience of taking these pills?
I started on them yesterday and started feeling queasy about an hour after. Today I'm still feeling a bit wierd, slightly nauseous and bad stomach. Toastgirl is taking the same and is feeling fine.
I travel tomorrow evening, so there's still a chance to see the docs before but I wondered if this is likely to be temporary and I'll adjust after a couple of days.
Any advice?
I took Malarone two months ago for a trip to India and didn't suffer a single side effect. They are more expensive than other pills but I took them because it is rare to get side effects from them.I started on them yesterday and started feeling queasy about an hour after. Today I'm still feeling a bit wierd, slightly nauseous and bad stomach. Toastgirl is taking the same and is feeling fine.
I travel tomorrow evening, so there's still a chance to see the docs before but I wondered if this is likely to be temporary and I'll adjust after a couple of days.
Any advice?
Are you sure that you just haven't caught a bug, there is a lot of bad colds around at the moment.
I wouldn't stop taking them, I have a friend who suffers from malaria, it is not nice! and it's not worth taking the risk.
Thanks for the advice. We're going camping in Namibia and Botswana for 3 weeks including a 3 day river trip so we want to err on the cautious side especially as I have a habit of attracting the mozzies.
We do have plenty of DEET based anti mozzie sprays of varying strengths up to 75%.
If I didn't take the medication, Toastgirl would kill me quicker than the Malaria would.
We do have plenty of DEET based anti mozzie sprays of varying strengths up to 75%.
If I didn't take the medication, Toastgirl would kill me quicker than the Malaria would.
I took them last year when I was in Cambodia. I stopped shortly after as the side effects were so bad, I had constant nausea, the sts and immune system went downhill rapidly as every scratch etc got infected I felt like crap, 2 days after stopping them I was back to perfect health. The Mrs didn't have any physical side effects but had trouble sleeping due to paranoia, kept thinking she could hear voices in the room at night etc, day after she stopped them she was fine again. We've decided in future we'll just travel to malarial countries only in the dry season and try to avoid getting bitten instead.
ts and immune system went downhill rapidly as every scratch etc got infected I felt like crap, 2 days after stopping them I was back to perfect health. The Mrs didn't have any physical side effects but had trouble sleeping due to paranoia, kept thinking she could hear voices in the room at night etc, day after she stopped them she was fine again. We've decided in future we'll just travel to malarial countries only in the dry season and try to avoid getting bitten instead.I spent 3 years working in West Africa, running a construction site with around 3000 people. The risk of malaria was so high we made taking anti-malarial mandatory & would fire anyone we found not taking the drugs.
The biggest issue was the cost of the drugs, the 3 main drugs we used were doxycycline, malarone & larium. Larium was an absolute last resort as the side effects are he worst. Doxycycline was the preferred as it is effective & very cheap. We did find however that around 1 in 10 had problems in terms of upset stomachs. It also wasn't really appropriate for women. Fot those that didn't get on with doxy we used malarone, but the cost was around 100x that of doxy ($5/day as opposed to 5c/day). I don't recall any problems or side effects with malarone.
I wouldn't normally bother with the tablets, but where I was the strain of malaria was very bad, you could be dead within 3 days of contracting it!
The biggest issue was the cost of the drugs, the 3 main drugs we used were doxycycline, malarone & larium. Larium was an absolute last resort as the side effects are he worst. Doxycycline was the preferred as it is effective & very cheap. We did find however that around 1 in 10 had problems in terms of upset stomachs. It also wasn't really appropriate for women. Fot those that didn't get on with doxy we used malarone, but the cost was around 100x that of doxy ($5/day as opposed to 5c/day). I don't recall any problems or side effects with malarone.
I wouldn't normally bother with the tablets, but where I was the strain of malaria was very bad, you could be dead within 3 days of contracting it!
Rawhide said:
they are very expensive. If you a bloke you can take Doxycycline (sp) which is a 10th of the price. Women can't take it as it interferes with birth control pills though.
I never bothered when I travelled, there is a lot of hype and very few places are actually that dangerous.
Better to take the pills and put up with the side effects than run the risk of catching Malaria. Malarone is pretty well tolerated though.I never bothered when I travelled, there is a lot of hype and very few places are actually that dangerous.
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