Originally Posted by mr bill
About Lariam: first, let me say that I'm just in the very beginning planning stages for a very large planned tour later on, so I'll definitely see a doctor about this stuff at some point. however, i'm just trying to get a feel as to what will be necessary, and it seems like you might have an idea. Anyway, I have had a couple of friends who had severe side effects to lariam at the beginning when they began taking it (vivid hallucinations, etc.). However, my plan for my tour involves travelling from a region where malaria won't be a problem to one where it will be. Would it be prudent to take the lariam the whole time I'm on the road, or should I wait until i'm near the problem areas?
Hmmmm...obviously talk to your doctor about the latest; but my suspicion is that you are not supposed to use Lariam prophylacticly/preventative. Use chloroquine for that unless you are clearly going into areas with chloroquine resistant strains. If you develop symptoms,
then go on to the stronger stuff. I took the primaquine, if i recall, for seven consecutive days and have been OK since.
I had an equally exhaustive thread on the malaria issue on a Marine corps website; alot of grunts get assigned to central america. The stories I hear about Larium grow by the day!
roughstuff