This is why you listen to the medical personnel and engage in proper malaria prophylaxis protocols. Dude probably passed on the pre-treatment and now gets to ride the Flop Sweat to Uncontrollable Chills Express for a few days. 🤷♀️
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Sucks to suck We lived in Africa for a few years. My mom got malaria her last year there We took all the meds.
aug 29, 2025, 12:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Welp, reading that brought back a lot of bad memories. IV Artesunate! "'I have never felt that sick in my life'"! Uncontrolled shivering! Hurting from the top of your head to your toes! 🤢
aug 29, 2025, 1:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I clearly blocked out the part when the docs said “the treatment is worse than the disease.” 🫠🤦♀️
aug 29, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 0 • view
It was all terrifying , especially the phase of being so gd sick that you couldn't be evac'd and had to wait until you were in slightly less agony. Thank God I wasn't one of those people who seemed to get it over and over.
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
The irony is that I’d have thought that he was already taking hydroxychloroquine.
aug 29, 2025, 1:22 pm • 8 0 • view
😂
aug 29, 2025, 1:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Right? That horse dewormer is good for something after all.
aug 29, 2025, 1:27 pm • 7 0 • view
My dad came home from WW2 with it. I remember as a little 4-5 yo kid watching him shiver, my mom piling blankets onto him, then a short time later taking them off because he was sweating so badly. Scary stuff at that age but when I went to Vietnam, it was real motivation to take the weekly pill.
aug 30, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
I took my meds for the prep and week after, every time. I don't fuck with malaria. A friend of mine got it as a missionary kid and is on medication for the rest of her life. No thank you.
aug 29, 2025, 1:01 pm • 7 0 • view
I took the meds but still got it. The Lariam for treatment was way worse though. 48 hours in a hotel bathroom, naked, hallucinating monkeys in tuxedos singing Beatles songs while fighting the urge to peel my own skin off and jump out the window. Worst substance I've ever consumed.
aug 29, 2025, 1:07 pm • 9 0 • view
We trialed Lariam as a prophylaxis on my second deployment to Panama and stopped treatment after less than a week because everyone was either suicidal, rage-monkeys, or tripping balls. Absolutely nasty stuff.
aug 29, 2025, 3:38 pm • 3 0 • view
We took mefloquine as an anti malarial prophylaxis in AFG. Everyone on the team had immersive hallucinogenic dreams for 1-2 nights after the weekly dose.
aug 29, 2025, 3:52 pm • 2 0 • view
There’s a reason it’s the only anti-malarial on the FAA DNI list. Stuff is gnarly.
aug 29, 2025, 3:59 pm • 3 0 • view