LARIAM Reviews (MEFLOQUINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 1.2 (149 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LARIAM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LARIAM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Profalactic anti-malarial | Very bad vertigo and physical lack of balance/coordination and changed depth-perception. Had to use a lot of concentration to navigate stairs, especially. For me, it was dangerous. Also had a bout of schizoid paranoia on one occasion that lasted hours. Maybe 6. Very uncomfortable. | F | 26 | 8 weeks Standard | 3/3/2017 | 1 | malaria | Thought of dying no appetite sweating tiredness felt like crying hallucinations don't get close to this drug rather have malaria next time | 35 | 3 days | 10/4/2016 | 1 | to prevent malaria | horrifying dread, depersonalization, psychosis for two weeks, then two years of psychosis that began 8 years afterwards | I came out of two years of psychosis seven years ago thanks to taking armodafinil, that my doctor had prescribed to treat what she thought was narcolepsy. I still take Nuvigil and haven't had any other psychotic episodes or deep depression for seven years now. I hope other doctors will prescribe this drug to veterans suffering from Lariam-related psychosis. | F | 75 | 4 months 1X W | 8/20/2016 | 1 | Military deployment Kyrgystan | Panic attacks, severe insomnia, hallucinations, ground and objects moving, tunnel vision, terrible paranoia. | Was sent home early from the deployment, I have taken many different medications and immunizations while in the military such as yellow fever, anthrax, smallpox, typhoid they all had some minor side effect for me. Nothing has come close to the absolute nightmare that I am still trying to live with. I now take Depakote, Paxil, buspirone and prazosin to keep from panic attacks and nightmares and am struggling to keep my career. Do not risk taking this horrible drug, I do appreciate that drug companies make product but when the FDA says you can have permanent CNS damage, just take doxy. | M | 40 | 4 weeks 250 mg | 11/16/2015 | 1 | Went to indo | Fever,nightmares,nausea,severe anxiety, sore throat, body aches. | Worst drug ever. Stay away | M | 24 | 2 weeks 250mg per | 11/13/2015 | 1 | trip to asia | severe anxiety, panic, depression, depersonalisation, derealization, delusional ideas, paranoia, insomnia | after only 2 tablets taken 2.5 months ago, i dont feel the same. it triggered something in me like depersonalisation, derealisation, i feel like im on drugs or a psychotic prodrome state. i feel so uncomfortable & on the verge of panic all the time. i cant describe it, i feel like something is horribly wrong. i wish i'd never taken this, my doctor didnt warn me of the risk! ive had mental health problems before e.g anxiety but NEVER to this extent. ive always been able to comfort myself when im panicking, but ive lost all self-help skills. i cant trust anyone including myself. my holiday was a disaster, i could barely leave my room. now im home & crippled by terror. im always trembling. i distrust everything now; i cant even have panadol or valium because im so scared of medication. antidepressants might help me, but i just CANNOT put any drug in my body again. i wonder if this feeling will ever go away! i feel completely unreal & wrong inside. | F | 25 | 2 weeks 250 1X W | 8/11/2015 | 1 | Trip to Phillipines | Severe hallucinations, crying, shakes, voices in head, telling people I was suicidal..... had to cut my trip short and return home.... Doctor did not give me any warnings..... DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG.... it is dangerous and should be not available. | F | 19 | 3 weeks 30mg 1X W | 7/22/2015 | 1 | trip to Chang mai | No appetite, feel nausea and terrible headache. From normal becoming to be more paranoid. | Do not take it | F | 18 | 1 weeks | 6/14/2015 | 1 | Malaria Prevention South East Asia | Dizziness, fainting, inability to concentrate, severe headache, light sensitivity, nightmares, anxiety and panic attacks. These side effects continue to persist (it's currently been 7 weeks since my last pill) and I only took this medication for 1 month. This medication is horrible. | F | 30 | 4 weeks 250MG 1X W | 6/2/2015 | 1 | Holiday in India | Insomnia, Vivid Dreams, Anxiety & Panic, Loss of Appetite, Vertigo, Light Headedness, Fever & Sweating, Dry Cough, Rash, Skin Peeling | I've never had a reaction to Malarone or any other drug in the past. I really wish I'd researched this one before taking it. | F | 44 | 2 weeks 250 MG 1X W | 3/11/2015 | 1 | To prevent Malaria while in CAR | F | 44 | 10 months 30 mg 1X W | 12/22/2014 Patient History | 1 | Trip to India | Paranoia, anxiety, panic attacks, black outs, constant fear of death, racing heart, chest pains, migraines, insomnia, stabbing pains throughout body, tremors, dry mouth at night, fatigue, depression, unable to concentrate, crying spells, spots in vision that have never gone away, blurry vision, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus. All of which continue even 14 months after discontinuing the use of lariam. NONE OF WHICH I HAD EVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE | Even hitler didn't deserve lariam. It's a travesty that this poison is legal. | F | 28 | 3 weeks 250 | 12/21/2014 | 1 | Went to India for 2 months in 1990 | M | 47 | 30MG 1X day | 10/30/2014 Patient History | 1 | Mission to Dominican Republic | The weeks I took it, I had vivid hallucinations, nightmares, extreme paranoia, suicidal thoughts, diarrhea, headache, nausea. Its now been two years, but I still have thoughts of mistrust, anxiety, and paranoia. I feel like I can't fit in with people. I get depressed, have mood-swings, and sometimes suicidal thoughts. I feel like a burden and I keep thinking if I was different before I had my episode in DR. | DO NOT TAKE IT. It is not worth risking the adverse side effects. | M | 20 | 2 weeks 250mg 1X W | 10/14/2014 | 1 | Military Iraq 2003-2004 | It started with a strange depression and really HD dreams. After about 2 months of this I experianced a convulsive episode for 3-4 hours, vomiting relentlessly. At the time I suspected something far diffrent was afflicting me. The war began to take on a sureal quality to say the least. After I returned a year later, my command requested a Psycological eval done. I was a Sergeant Major. My career ended, my views on the world around me were not sequencing with reality in my brain housing group. | It has been 10 years. I still suffer in differing degrees (waves) of symptoms Esophageal malfunction (cant swallow), had abnormal EKG, dizzy/vertigo and nausea, headaches, extreme pain in joints, had tremor, nightmares, and a host of Psych issues, to include PTSD diagnosed by VA. Making it through a day without psycological incident is very challenging. My advice DO NOT TAKE IT. | M | 50 | 12 months 25MG 1X W | 10/8/2014 | 1 | Short holiday | Extreme anxiety, loneliness for no reason, thoughts of death, thinking heart attack, panic attacks, no interest in sex as my balls constantly shrinking etc. not enough room to list alll | M | 36 | 3 weeks 250mg | 9/12/2014 | 1 | Malaria Prevention | Anxiety, mild hallucinations, and dizziness (one episode of debilitating vertigo lasting 1 day during my first month taking Larium) while taking Larium 2009-2011. Now in 2014 frequent mild dizziness, with 4 debilitating vertigo attacks in the past 3 years. I had never suffered from vertigo before I took Larium, though I cannot say for sure that the two are linked. | If possible, take a different drug for malaria prevention. Doxy made me feel nauseated and it was a bother to take every day, but now I wish I had stuck with Doxy instead of starting Larium. However, both are preferable to malaria! | F | 28 | 27 months 1X W | 8/20/2014 | 1 | Anti malaria prophylactic | Worst possible serious adverse reaction, including in acute stage after 3rd tablet hallucinations, delirium, confusion, acted out on these confused thoughts and nearly got lost in Kthmandu hills while travelling with friends. Had to be hospitalised under 24 hour supervision until my sister came to bring me back to Australia. I thought I was going to die had to be given heavy duty anti psychotics. When I got home I was a 'vegetable' could barely talk, or move. Everything tasted strange I slept a lot & over months of recovery experienced fatigue, anxiety, agoraphobia, nightmares. drs said I would recover but I did not. Twelve years later I suffer severe fatigue anxiety, PTSD plus many symptoms too long to recount here!! | LARIAM is a medication which should not be given to anyone unless they are under strict medical super vision in a hospital. Giving this medicine to people who are travelling is absurd given the high rate of adverse effects!!!! Don't take this medicine it has been banned by the Australian Military & other similar organisations. It should not be on the market!!!! Roche should be sued till they are out of business they have ruined my life I cannot work am being cared for by my 78 year old mother I will be a burden on the state soon I hate Roche for what they have done to me!!! | F | 54 | 3 weeks 1X W | 4/5/2014 | 1 | To Prevent Malaria | Horrific hallucinations, very strange and vivid dreams that seem like your awake, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, depression, difficulty thinking, chronic fatigue, no longer feel love the same. Feel like I'm in an emotional black hole I can never return from and all those close to me saw the change in only 2 weeks. Still the same effects although to a lessor degree today, without the hallucinations, even though it was taken over 10 years ago. Seems to be getting worse with age. Absolute poison I would have rather died of Malaria than be left with the memories of what happened to me while hallucinating. I had absolutely no mental issues before taking only two of these pills they should be illegal. | M | 40 | 2 weeks | 2/16/2014 | 1 | for a short holiday, | F | 3 weeks 1X W | 12/23/2013 Patient History |