Just Curious
Just curious out of the other vets from OEF OIF have took mefloquine as the anti malaria meds while deployed that have PTSD. They started off giving us Doxicycoline for malaria and you weren't suppose...
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I a sure it is just a preventative thingy but mosquitoes in the desert? I don't remember what, if anything, they gave us in VN but just about everyone out in the jungle ended up with one kind of...
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warzone54 wrote:I a sure it is just a preventative thingy but mosquitoes in the desert? I don't remember what, if anything, they gave us in VN but just about everyone out in the jungle ended up with...
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Jeez, some of the Psych side effects are: Psychiatric side effects have included emotional problems and transient emotional disturbances. Behavioral changes, strange or vivid dreams, mania,...
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When were you there? I was OIF during the invasion. We had doxy but everyone just stopped taking it after about a month. Even the medics. Personally it was giving me weird dreams. Nobody ever got...
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turko wrote:When were you there? I was OIF during the invasion. We had doxy but everyone just stopped taking it after about a month. Even the medics. Personally it was giving me weird dreams. Nobody...
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We were on mefloquine during the invasion of Afghanistan, except for short periods when it was unavailable (which we switched to Doxycycline). Doxy according to our surgeon, very limited adverse...
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williamssp wrote:We were on mefloquine during the invasion of Afghanistan, except for short periods when it was unavailable (which we switched to Doxycycline). Doxy according to our surgeon, very...
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DOD is the one that pretty much invented mefloquine at Walter Reed. You were supposed to be screened before being give that or any other medication. I know I wasn't, but we were rushed to Kandahar....
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I just ran across this thread after reasearching Ménière's disease. I thought this was new but it looks like the problem was known about back in 2013. I was diagnosed with severe menieres about 3...
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yeah its pretty rough and the army said that it affected a small percentage, although they stopped handing it out a few years back.
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I was on Westpac-94 deployed to Somalia and we were told aboout the adverse side effects of the anti malaria medications were going to have to take. We were then ordered to take these medications...
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My late husband (I am a veteran as well) was on a deployment in 94 and went to Somalia as well. He was on the USS Guadalcanal LPH 7. He passed away a couple years later..He also did several West Pacs....
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