Has anybody used hydrocloroquine? My rheumotologist gave it to me for thumb/joint pain/arthritis but read it is also for treating malaria wich I have also read to treat a lyme coinfectin.
Posted by Parisa (Member # 10526) on :
jpsmom,
Hydrochloroquine is also known as plaquinel. If you do a search for plaquinel, I'm sure you will bring up quite a bit.
The rheumatologists don't like to think of their drugs as actually treating diseases but modulating the immune system. The fact that this drug also worked on malaria and there is a co-infection babesia which is simlar to malaria completely escapes their narrow view.
My husband took plaquinel for about two years. It wasn't enough to knock out the Babesia but may have had some effect. He had to take a combination of other drugs to fully knock it out.
Posted by disturbedme (Member # 12346) on :
Plaquenil is also used in Lupus treatment.
Also a mild cyst buster for lyme disease.
Posted by JOLA (Member # 23498) on :
I too used Plaquenil. Definitely helped w/joint pain.
Had to go off it cause of bad side effects-nausea, chronic diahrea.
If it doesn't bother you I definitely would use it in combo w/other abx.
Posted by David Miller (Member # 21583) on :
Dr B recommends Plaquenil as a pH modifier to make Levaquin (sp) more effective.