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I took a round of Coartem in the fall - could not handle full doses, only took 1/4 tab doses.
It either herxed me badly, or I had a bad reaction to it and stopped.
I started it again 2 months ago and only got as far as one week - 1/4 tab once, and second week, 1/4 tab twice. That is it.
My LLMD theorizes that I might have kicked it with that little bit.
However, my load was really really low - something like 1:128 or however that ratio reads, when they tested me last June. These treatments were in the fall and winter, respectively. Plus antibiotics.
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Hi I'm going to start it tomorrow. Will tell you how it goes. My LLMD will have me on really high doses and in between I think she wants to do Primaquine. She wants to be aggressive also art and crypto, clynda, etc.
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So i have to report what I think is a Coartem side effect - the LLMD had me on two rounds a week apart....and my back and hip pain abated...now that i'm off of it for over a week, it's coming back....
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Coartem knocked me out. Two hours after taking it I knocked out on the couch for like 2 hours coulnd't wake up. How am I suppose to work on this. I left a message for my LLMD. I'm going to have to call in sick tomorrow.
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ps. thank you for the replies. I haven't been checking in the past few days..
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The doctor prescribe 4 tabs 2 times a day for 3 days. Then stop for 11 days. On the 11 days do primaquine.
The Coartem is making me dizzy, nauseous, disoriented, brain fog, tired, I think I am only going to do it two days and maybe cut my dosage a little down to 3 tabs, or lower.
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I was doing a 1/4 tab once a week... then 1/4 tab twice the next week... and by the time I got up to three times I wasn't happy.
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mlg, this is an older thread, but how did you do on the Primaquine?
Your coartem reaction sounds like mine, and my LLMD also took me off after two rounds (couldn't even get to the full dose).
LLMD just put in for primaquine, which my insurance denied, but I think I will pay out of pocket because this is the third Babs med they've denied, and I can't handle these symptoms anymore.
Thanks!
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I took Riamet (Coartem) for 3 or 4 days, I can't remember. It literally also knocked me down, with herxes, then I felt like new!!
It was so sudden.
After 3, 4 weeks, some babs symptoms slowly crept back, but surely. Babs symptoms keep changing, and it is hard to track it, I find.
Riamet /Coartem must be repeated and I do not think it works really as mono therapy. My opinion.
I had two babs infections, from two different bites. It took me many herbs in combination, microcurrent, artemisinin, artemisia annua to put this awful infection under control. Riamet was very helpful, but it didn't solve by itself.
Maybe you are luckier than I was??
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