Starting Malarone tomorrow:

Two tablets twice daily.

Doxy 200 mg twice daily PLUS Azithromycin 500 mg once daily. (pulsed protocol)

Along with Artemisinin


What do you think?
I know some people only do one tablet of malarone twice daily...is this setting me up for a brutal herx? (taking two at a time)

I've been wanting to do doxy...as I only took it for a few weeks prior to seeing my LLND.

Hi Girlie I have never taken Malarone but sounds like a heavy dose.
Are you pulsing the Malarone as well or just the Doxy/Zpacks?
Also, what is your pulsing schedule like again?

Hi Girlie, I've been taking malarone for the last 6 months, however I started with a quarter tab and worked up super slowly!! I'm finally up to 2 in the am and 1 pm. I would imagine you'd herx pretty good with starting that high right away, but who knows!! I was doing pretty well for a couple weeks but the last few days have been horrible! Does this sound to you like a Babesia herx? Fatigue, stomach upset (kind of nauseous), waves of heat or chills, dizziness that comes out of no where, head and neck pain that comes and goes, also feeling shaky. I'm also doing 2 1000mg augmentin 2x a day along with the malarone and 500mg azithromycin, 28 drops crypto plus 2x day and up to 10 drops of the artemesia intrinsic. My llmd also had me start taking Stevia from Nutrimedix before my antibiotics. I'm wondering if pulsing would be good for me too,I don't think my poor stomach is liking the augmentin!!

tonyaraven said...
Hi Girlie, I've been taking malarone for the last 6 months, however I started with a quarter tab and worked up super slowly!! I'm finally up to 2 in the am and 1 pm. I would imagine you'd herx pretty good with starting that high right away, but who knows!! I was doing pretty well for a couple weeks but the last few days have been horrible! Does this sound to you like a Babesia herx? Fatigue, stomach upset (kind of nauseous), waves of heat or chills, dizziness that comes out of no where, head and neck pain that comes and goes, also feeling shaky. I'm also doing 2 1000mg augmentin 2x a day along with the malarone and 500mg azithromycin, 28 drops crypto plus 2x day and up to 10 drops of the artemesia intrinsic. My llmd also had me start taking Stevia from Nutrimedix before my antibiotics. I'm wondering if pulsing would be good for me too,I don't think my poor stomach is liking the augmentin!!

I have been on Mepron, so hoping the transition won't be too hard on me.

As far as Babesia herxing - I think that what you're experiencing could be attributed to baesia. Definitely the heat/chills, dizziness...
I have had a bit of nausea off and on - since I started with the Mepron. And that has never been a symptom of mine.
My neck pain has come back, as well...I thought maybe it was because I'm not treating bartonella currently...and it has come back because of that.

The Augmentin and azithromycin are also hitting the Lyme....so some of your increase in symptoms could be from lyme.

I just realized my LLMD prescribed the malarone 2 pills twice daily, not pulsing along with Zithromax.

I haven't filled the prescription yet, but is 2 pills twice daily really needed? That would be realllyyyy expensive for me to do buy..

Girlie, I took malarone mostly with azithromycin and then switched to Doxy. I haven't taken it with any antibiotics for a month and a half because my doctor wasn't seeing patients for personal reasons and I couldn't get refills. I was using artemisia and cryptolepis.

I see my doctor tomorrow and am going to ask for zith again. I hated the doxy. My air hunger and nausea have got better but I still have no temperature regulation, much head pressure and muscle aches.

Coartem was very powerful for me. I did 4 pills twice a day for 3 days and then 10 days off and then repeat. I think if I could have stayed on that I would be much better off.

Girlie, I didn't have the chills (shivers) either until I started babesia treatment. I go from hot to cold all day.

I also never had lower back pain, flank pain or muscle pain until I started babesia treatment and now it is bad but at least it comes and goes and is not constant.

I have been having so much head pressure and eye pain that I was and still am thinking bartonella. My LLMD says it is babesia. She told me that babesia does cause eye pain and mine is due to the pressure. I don't know any more what causes what.

I took malarone twice a day with azith and bactrim, I didn't have bad herxing from malarone and I believe it got rid of the mild air hunger. But I still had occasional night sweats even after 7 months on malarone.

Have you tried Sida acuta for the head pressure, I believe that's what initially relieved mine.

I'm not sure about the chills/shivers Girlie, I only had them very early one but they went away with the doxy at 400 mg a day.