So says one Far Side mosquito to the other. Don’t remember the strip? Shame on you! This Gary Larson panel is so famous that in Suwon City, Korea, there’s even a mosquito monument based on it! (Whether officially or unofficially, I am unable to ascertain.)Tomorrow I begin my preventative medication for malaria. After reading the guidelines, I fully expect to start hearing mosquitoes talk. Sometimes you wonder whether the prevention is worse than the disease.
The side effects section starts out on a reassuring note: if using this medication to treat malaria, its side effects can be difficult to distinguish from the symptoms of the disease. Side effects are common, the standard ones being nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. Neuropsychological ones – headaches, both drowsiness and insomnia – are also typical.
There’s a warning against taking this drug if you have a history of depression or other mental disorders. Side effects include: mania, restlessness, anxiety, depression, mood swings, panic attacks, sleep disorders, confusion, hallucinations, hostility, psychosis, paranoia, amnesia. Reports of suicidal tendencies have been rare, and any potential connection to the drug has not been proven!
And those are just the mental side effects. The rest of the (long) page details how this medication can fuck up just about every part of your body, too. I won’t start listing how: you name it, it’s on there.
But if you do happen to notice any side effects they haven’t listed, they ask you to please get in touch…
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And it starts this evening. I can't say I'm particularly looking forward to this bit....
You can't hear mosquitos talk?
In Nuuksio yesterday I very clearly heard several million say "Great! Irish ankles!"
I think I have a separate tum for malaria pills - I've had so many since I was small. Look how I've turned out. Fie, fie!
I'm worried: I've experienced surprisingly few side-effects. No tummy upsets at all! Although Kani was just kind enough to remind me that we won't be going mad until the third pill...
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