The malaria medication you are referring to is MEFLOQUINE, known also by its brand name, LARIAM. There are just so many stories about weird dreams, psychotic episodes, whatever, that I would not take it even as a last resort.

Most people take Chloroquine tablets once a week when i malaria areas (a few weeks before, a few weeks after). If you think you caught it, Doxycycline is a good broad spectrum antibiotic to take until you can get to a clinic, diagnosed, and medicated. Just stay out of the bright sunlight with Doxy or you'll look like a boiled lobster.

There are chloroquine resistant strains; and this is what I got when I was in Pakistan on my world tour. You have to use a medication which is different than the prophylactic, since obviously the strain is immune to it.

roughstuff