Tincup
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Here is a discount coupon/card for Malarone. You can use it if you have insurance (and they won't pay) or don't have insurance. This website/card can be used for other meds too.
Tincup
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Insurance Issues. Of course you tell them right off that you, as a patient with a choice, follow the ILADS Lyme & TBD Diagnostic & Treatment guidelines. If they give you any stink...
The IDSA 2006 Lyme & TBD guidelines say (about babesia)....
"All patients with active babesiosis should be treated with antimicrobials because of the risk of complications (A-III)."
"Longer duration of antimicrobial therapy may be necessary in highly and persistently symptomatic patients until parasitemia is cleared, but no controlled studies exist that define the risk-benefit ratio of more prolonged therapy."
nefferdun
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Sounds good to us but brick walls don't have ears much less brains.
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