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Deep in 'tis pear
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Is it a bad combination? I've read that the doxy diminishes the effect of the malarone... I've been on this combination for about a week. Has anyone tried the combination Leriam and Doxycycline for Babesia? Any bad side effects?
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Do you have a LLMD? Did they prescribe the doxy for Babesia or another TBD?

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I do, but the reality is that he prescribed Leriam and doxy. But since I read about the terrible side effects of Leriam, I am a little scared and decided to do the malarone instead.
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Same here Deep. I have to start the Lariam and I really don't want to. The Malarone has suppressed all my symptoms from the Babesia (I think). Sweats are 99% gone and air hunger (99%) gone.

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wondering why your doctor prescribed doxy its usually done with azithromycin and or artemesinin

as far as the larium its just another malaria med and any of these meds can have weird side affects

the malarone did wonders for me as far as killing off the night sweats !
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PJ, since we both had awesome results with the Malarone, what else did you do to kill off the Babesia?

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it kills me that my ID doc won't Rx Malarone instead of Mepron when I hear all these great results! [Frown]
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PJ 1954, To answer your question, I was taking zythromax and mepron and was having the worst heart palpitations... and the worst nightmares. So, he switched me to doxy - and I elected to take malarone instead of Lariam. Now, I wonder if I should stop the malarone for a few days and starts on the Lariam. I don't like the idea that, if you have to take a pill a week, it means it stays in your system that long. What If you have a bad reaction?
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