Reply #91: Yep, Lariam. Evil stuff.

[ForrestGump]

The CDC still really pushes it, too, though it's pretty much reviled in most other countries. I suspect that I've suffered a long-term effect from it (not serious, but annoying to some extent) but there's probably no way I'll ever know for sure. I never suffered the more spectacular 'psychotic' side-effects but it definitely started to mess with my mind on one trip, at which point I dropped it like a hot potato and switched to something else.

Ever since I had problems with the stuff I've switched to safer prophylaxis. Are you talking about malarone as a substitute? I haven't tried it, but it sounds good.