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Yes, I know this topic is being hammered in another thread, but I am interested in some real numbers, so, please take the poll. Every question must be answered, so, I left options for everyone. | ||
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While I've never had problems with Larium, my daughters had upset stomachs for the second and third day after taking it this year. No bizzare dreams... but very vivid ones by us all, too. JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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I had my doc prescribe 250mg Mefloquine -- the generic for Larium. I had no side effects. Didn't get malaria either.  -TONYTony Mandile - Author "How To Hunt Coues Deer" | |||
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I have been taking Larium for the past 26 years, and have had no problems whatsoever. | |||
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First couple trips I took Larium and though I had very vivid dreams I enjoyed them for the most part. One trip over I remember being a bit emotional at the airport(homesick). A bit out of character but not to the point I would consider it a problem. My son however got very concerned about flying on one trip.To the point that he was seriously afraid to get on the plane.He flies often and is himself an amatuer pilot so this was way out of character for him. Next couple trips I did not take anything. Last time over I started having syptoms of Malaria on the flight home and so I took the Malarone treatment protocal. I was right as rain in 48 hours. Will be in a high risk malaria zone hunting this year and will be on Malarone. We seldom get to choose But I've seen them go both ways And I would rather go out in a blaze of glory Than to slowly rot away! | |||
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That statement really concerns me, Saeed. I think it's time for an intervention. I have seen a couple of your safari and T-Rex videos. Admit it, please, for your own good, you and Walter both take Larium every day even while at home, don't you? You guys are clearly so far gone from Larium abuse that you have no idea of what this awful drug has done to you. No problems whatsoever?! Yeah, right! You need to quit, cold turkey, then go on a white rice and distilled water diet for the next 90 days, and then report back. BTW, I like Malarone. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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Hi lariam being around for a long time and some serious kinds of malaria parasites is almost resistant to it. it will give you a false feeling of escurity. please check with your Dr or WHO about your destination and the kind of profylax needed. many kinds of malaria parasite are totaly resistant to quinin and quinin drivates(lariam is too a quinin drivate). more new preparates like artimisin drivates are more relaiable. regards YES Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. | |||
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Saeed- The only real common problem with Larium is physchosis. I have seen your hunting videos and I think your entire group is already pschotic so how would you realize any problems  We seldom get to choose But I've seen them go both ways And I would rather go out in a blaze of glory Than to slowly rot away! | |||
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I have never taken anything else other than Larium, on my own, but I have no idea what the army gave me, for a prophyalaxis! Still if It was the army doses or simply stress from where I was,I don't know. I did have some pritty exciteing eposodes real, or imagined in South East Asia, on tha army stuff. I've never had a minutes trouble on Larium. Of course some folks say I'm a little strange when I'm not takeing medicine, so who knows! .............  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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We have taken Larium (or the generic version actually) for three trips and the only side effect that I have noticed is it may make me a bit more emotional. Or maybe that's just Africa! "There always seems to be a big market for making the clear, complex." | |||
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Have taken Larium for ten years with no adverse effects at all. I dream regularly so have no idea what a night would be without dreams. I took another med for malaria in Belize for two trips but don't know what it was but it was NOT Larium. Had no adverse effects from it either. Both prescribed by the travel clinic at The University Of Arizona which SHOULD know what is the reccommended prophylaxis. SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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You are jealous of me and my friend Saeed ha? We like to enjoy ourselves, and if popping a few pills help, we do that too. If you wish to be as happy as we are, please take the following: 300 pills of malarone, 300 pills of larium, 250 pills of aspirin, 250 pills extra strong pandole and 100 pills of your favorite halucinagin. Crush everything into powder, mix with one bottle of Johny Walker White label whiskey, one bottle vodca and one bottle California red wine. Drink one glass in the morning, one lunch time and one in the evening. Makesure to stir the mixture before partaking. Saeed adds one large bottle of tabasco because he likes his hot. This will scramble your brain far enough to think straight like Saeed. One day he told me he dreamt of me. And he said I looked very beautiful. The next day I slept with a loaded rifle next to me  Nudity --- the best form of birth control after 50! | |||
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  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Ah, it is worse than I feared. Just a few questions. Do you prefer Russian or Swedish vodka? And for the wine, is it Napa Valley? Also, where do you get your extra strength Panadol?   Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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never had a problem with either Larium or malarone. Dont use doxycycline as a matter of habit. 1) I dont do well in the sun with it. I am one of the lucky ones who is photo sensitive. I will use it to treat tick fever however when needed. 2) The biggest reason I dont use Doxy is that many of the areas I travel to the endemic strains of malaria are resistant to it. So I just dont use it at all and dont hve to remember what areas are a problem. Just one morre thing I dont have to put on the to do lists each time. The only intervention needed is for us to realise that the average life of a trophy room is twenty years yet we still fill up as much space as possible with our art and trophies that wont mean anything except to otthers of our band but the suffer the same aflicttions we all do short of some rathernsadistc theory on what it is approppriate Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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Same as Tony; Larium every time in Zim. No problems, but I was looking forward to the hallucinations  I have 4 more weeks of it.LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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The results of this poll are turning out as I had suspected. Would like to see some more votes from people with experience using any or all of these drugs. | |||
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Wendell, all, Here is an alternative my girlfriend found, DEMAL200. She is a Dr. and requested all of the test reports from the Dr. who is using it. She also got the ingredients and reviewed them as well. She is very pleased with the the info and will be personally using it next September in Zim. It is a natural product and hence not pushed by most physicians. http://www.blueturtlegroup.com/ Sorry, didnt mean to Hi Jack yoru thread, just thought you and others might like to see an alternative. | |||
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I've had some minor issues with Malerone but not anything serious enough to make me quit using it. | |||
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Took Larium for a long time w/o any effects until one night I had a nightmare and couldn't wake up out of it. No more Larium. Malarone seems to have no side effects. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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sorry but anything listed on a website named blueturtlegroup. com is a little too homeopathic for me. i guess it is just the physician in me( then again i feel the same way about St. John's wort and a lot of other homeopathic bullshit). personally, Lariam has worked just fine for me on 8 safaris with no side effects. that equals 46-48 weeks of treatment. Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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How do you know it works? Clinical trials? Or does it just have good karma? ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Out of 105 people who have taken the poll so far, if you eliminate the answer "Have not taken XXX drug" you come up with the following results. 53% of the people who have taken Larium had problems. 38% Who have taken Doxy have had problems 12% of people who have taken Malarone have had problems The Malaria Profylaxis of choice is: 60 people Malarone (57%) 25 people Larium (24%) 15 people Doxy (14%) 5 people Other (5%) I would consider this pretty substantial. Also conssider that the numbers are skewed a bit toward having problems with any drug simply because you are in Africa. Lots of "bugs" everywhere. It is not uncommon to experience digestive problems, to put it politely. I suspect that some of the problems people report with each drug are results of this. Still, the spread is quite significant. Sure, 105 people does not represent a huge cross section, but the numbers do fall in line with what I have experienced. Cheers. | |||
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Hi Will, Yes, they have ran clinical trials, she was given the results and studied them at length. I cant tell you any details as I did not personally review them. If your interested, I can get them from her and forward to you. We are going to be in Zim for 3 weeks next year and in her preperations, she started investigating malaria prevention and discovered this product. After her review, she decided it was an effective product and has chose to use herself in lieu of Malarone or Larium. As far as Good Karma, I have no idea.... I'm a republican | |||
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The County Health Department told me Malarone is the preferred Malaria Profylaxis for Africa. Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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All of the result in my not being able to sleep very well. | |||
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Walter! i have seen you shoot in the videos. Saeed was perfectly safe! 465H&H | |||
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It seems everyone - including the animals - are perfectly safe from Walter's rifle. Except himself.! He is the only person I have ever heard off who has shot himself so many times. One time, someone doctored his mosquito repellent, and added liquid sugar to it. You should have seen the cloud of flies that followed him around! NO, it was NOT me who did it either! Walter has made many friends who like to look after him. | |||
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You can google the drugs and the manufactures actually have all their info available from side effects to clinical trials. It includes where it was tested and on how many individuals and at what ages. How many people completed the studies and why they dropped out, whether side effects, or whatever, their ages, etc. The info even includes human volunteer studies who let themselves be bitten by infected. Not sure I would volunteer for that project.....Glaxo manufctures Melarone and they have very detailed info on their drugs available which also lists known interactions with other drugs,,,,,,, including interaction with tetracyclines... you can make more money, you can not make more time | |||
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I have used Larium on all 3 of my trips to Zim. I start taking it earlier than recommended, and when I get back I take it longer than recommended. I do not want to get Malaria. In total I have taken it for over 250 days with no problems. In fact it seems to "relax and steady out" my normal dreams. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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I have often posted negatively about the dreams Larium has given me- Hitler dressed as little bo peep, being a female croc and having to remodel the flat  etc, but am reminded of one...leopard crawling across an acre of tits covered in baby oil... that one was worth going back for . Perhaps I will have to try some more Larium | |||
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I got my anti-malaria pills the other day.I will be taking 100mg Doxy tabs.I do not want to take Larium because I really hate nightmares.I used to sleepwalk as a kid and teenager.It used to scare the hell out of me.I remember my mother once putting a wet towel on the floor in front of my bed,to wake me up if I walked in my sleep again. | |||
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Now that's something I'd like to see!! | |||
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Wendell, I have taken Malarone all 3 times I have been to Africa. I have only experience a few problems with an erection lasting longer than 4 hours. Oh, wait a minute, wrong thread. You can borrow money, but you can't borrow time. Don't wait, go now. Savannah Safaris Namibia Otjitambi Trails & Safaris DRSS NRA SCI DSC TSRA TMPA | |||
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I'm taking Malarone right now every morning and I've had no problems. I've taken Larium in the past and also have had no problems, but I like taking a pill every morning, it's easiler to remember than once a week. | |||
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