I am testing out different anti-malaria med options because doxycycline made me super ill. I have two other options. One of those is malarone but it's about $6 per pill and it's a daily pill so unless I marry a handsome doctor who gets drug hooks ups...I'm going to avoid that one if possible.
This left me with mefloquine. It's a weekly pill that is much less expensive. My travel doctor starts asking me a bunch of wacky questions like, "have you ever tried to kill yourself or thought about killing anyone?", "Have you ever suffered from depression or psychosis/hallucinations?"
no, not yet! joking, joking.
Turns out mefloquine can make crazy people even crazier so it's prescribed pretty hesitantly. Once we determined I was probably in the clear to take this medicine she wrote me up a two week test dosage. I guess if I have any underlying undiagnosed issues, we'll find out now! HA!
I googled some of the side effects and found a bunch of blog posts from people who have taken the drug and experienced some wild dreams. Thankfully they are just weird, and not scary.
One week in and I've only had two dreams.
The first one takes place at Neiman's. Somehow I rationalized buying a super pricey handbag because it also converted into a backpack. I spent the rest of dream feeling insanely guilty for spending so much money. When I left the store, I saw that my car was stolen but I had keys to a Hyundai in my new handbag/backpack contraption. I decided I would steal the Hyundai and go on about my life.
spending money= super guilty... grand theft auto= no guilt.
My 2nd dream was even better because I was just best friends with Taylor Swift and who doesn't want that?
I really haven't had any horrible side effects--- praise the Lord! I think we might have found a winner!
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