I have Malaria
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- i_monk0
Can I catch it by drinking from the same cup as you?
- CALLES0
sucks man.. here... sorry to hear
- GeorgesII0
shit man, that suck,
get better :)
- marychain0
get well soon...I'm sending someone over
- haha you shoul've seen my bird's face when she saw that hahahaAmbushstudio
- Ambushstudio0
Update:
They gave me the medicine and that made me feel really really fucked up. WTF! ssup with that shitty medicine fuck,
I feel a tad better right now tough- mmm... mefloquine. fcking with your head ya?horton
- totally, fucking horrbleAmbushstudio
- Eighty0
Divvunt worree pet, have a pint an' a shite an yerl be reet as reen....X
- MrT0
@Projectile
Long story short, MrsT and I spent one night in Pak Beng, it's the standard, traveller stopover on the 2-day Mekong cruise between Thailand and Laos.
The area is (was) pretty high malaria risk. We got there at dusk and went out for some food. While we waited for it to arrive the town lost all power. The food still came out from a pitch black kitchen (?!) so I was eating luke warm fish stew with floating unknowns in it, in the dark, with mosquitoes buzzing everywhere.
You get the idea, and will understand why I hit the local herbs straight afterwards.
Our room for the night had open windows, no glass or screens, a hole in the ground for a toilet which you flushed by using a bucket of water taken from a large open tank, also in the room. There were no mossie nets, the beds were raised, tiled slabs with only wool blankets to sleep on.
It was hot and humid and all we could do was wet our towels with water from the tank and sleep under them.
If we could have been more at risk I'd struggle to know how...
Afterwards it was horrible, I was given tablets and it eventually cleared up. When I say months, I was at work and generally fine after a couple of weeks, but sport or anything strenuous left me a wreck for the best part of 6 months.
- raf0
I took malarone while in the north of Thailand and in Myanmar—not sure if this stuff helps. I was told me they used the same thing to treat malaria when you contract it so it doesn't matter that much if you've been taking it or only start right when you get sick—you get malaria anyway. The difference is that if you've been taking the meds prior to getting it, you might have a milder case.
It's funny how these maps look: Most of Thailand is safe, but bordering countries are all red zones. How do mosquitoes know not to cross the borders?
- threadpost0
Oh dear gawd. That sounds horrible, try to stay well mate. I remember having to be inoculated for dengue and yellow fever (the injections hurt plenty enough!)
Also, and don't quote me on this (it's been 8 years), but I remember learning about Malaria in an Epidemiology class, where it still kills more people worldwide than every other disease COMBINED. That's shiite. That with clean water and mosquito netting, we could save so many millions of lives.
Fucking sucks. Stay up mate! Next time remember to bring and wear your DEET!!!!
- ********0
good luck. hope you just die like all of us in 2012...
- k_temp0
@ambush
So you feel like this kid after all those medicines?
- tanpopo0
I've got a bad case of yellow fever for years now.
