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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.
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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.
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Plaquenil is also used in Lupus treatment.
Also a mild cyst buster for lyme disease.
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