[rwt_bkk]

I had an optimoligist working for me in Laos. He took Lariam and developed a bad case of tremors. He thought is was time to quite surgery and was going to retire. Then after returning to the states the tremors ceased. Later he went to a seminar on Lariam and found it was one of the side effects.

Personally I spent 9 years in a area that was 80% malarial without contacting marlaria (only got it once in 1969 on a 7 day trip to the same area). I have relied on doxycycline and artemesia only (never had to take the artemsia). I have also treated more than 10,000 people for malaria in an environment where Lariam is much too expensive. I rely totally on doxy and artemsia and get very low reoccurance rates and no side effects from the artemsia treatment (combined with doxy for adults and non-nursing mothers).

A lot of the people that came over were taking Lariam as perscribed by the stateside doctors, but one of my understandings were that it was very hard on the liver too limiting it's usufulness for those of us that had to live in these areas for years at a time.

Personally I would look for alternatives..