The LLMD you are seeing (your treatment is very distinctive) generally prescribes 10ml/2x of mepron for babs. According to other Lymenetters and my own limited experience, you might want to check out the combination of artemisinin, mepron and ketek. The best arte company is Nutricology (also known as Allergy Research), which you can order from Vitamin Shoppe if you're in NY.

If you ask for this treatment from this LLMD, you don't want to antagonize him. Like for example, you could start by getting ketek, which is the next generation of zith and is much, much, much better. He'll be happy to prescribe it for you.

This link should lead to a recently published story discussing the relative benefits of plaquenil and artemisinin for malaria.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/health/10MALA.html?ex=1111381200&en=ce5c7fdce9e9cd07&ei=5070

I did a search on malarone and parsed through a number of the threads.

What I learned was the Malarone appears to be as good if not better than Mepron for treating Babs.

Yes, there is less Atovaquone in Malarone than there is in Mepron. But that doesn't mean Malarone is less effective than Mepron. Malarone also contains another ingredient (I forget what it is.)

Also very importantly, Malarone is more than TEN times cheaper than Mepron.

If you have any specific info that Malarone is not as effective as Mepron, I'd be very interested in the link.

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Originally posted by lark1067:
what is the dose for malerone when given with zithromax and plaquinel?

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Malerone is usually prescribed by itself, i.e., you don't need to take a macrolide with it.

The typical adult dose is one 250-100mg tablet per day.

There are two drugs in the tablet. Atovaquone and .

"250" and "100" refers to the mg of each component in the tablet. Which belongs to which, I don't know.

Hope this helps.

I have no scientific proof at all on this. I'm going on 1) Lymenet posts, 2) the fact that malarone didn't work for me at all, 3) my doctor went to some conference and found his fellow doctors were saying that anything less than 10ml mepron doses didn't work, and 4) phone conversations with some Lymenet individuals.

I'm on 250-100mg once daily.

My son just finished a 3 weeker of mep, and he herxed all over the place. We tempered the dosage to one tsp. [10ml] per-day, and he still had real problems.

The doc is cranking his zith up to 500mg next week, and he was taking art 200mg per-day with the mep.

I'd like to hear from folks who've had success with malarone/zith/art. Is plaquinel a necessary part of the treatment ? Does art need to be taken with the malerone ?Thanks for any help.