How long to take Malarone?

I'm hoping some of you who have been treated with Malarone for babesia, might tell me the dosage and length of time you were prescribed the medication. Any help on this would really be appreciated. Also, did you take Artemisinin with it? If so, how much and how long?

Thanks,
Concernedmom

I'm interested in this too. Especially the dose and whether to take constantly or pulse and for how long.

I think that as malarone containes 250mg atovaquone the equivalent dose to standard mepron treatments would be 6 tabs a day. Obviously this is a move away from its use in malaria prophylaxis and treatment which seems to be a lower dose for a very short period of time in the case of the latter ie 3 tabs for 3 days..... Ohhh if only it was that simple!

But do people take it constantly or pulse and for how long? And can you take it along side other drugs like azithromycin or artemisinin?

I am currently taking malarone 3 per day, bactrim 2x per day, artemenisin 2x day, and sida acute (Buehner herb). i have been on malarone for approx 2 1/2 months. The herxing i have had with this has been absolutely awful. one day at a time.

Our daughter didn't see complete improvement with bartonella abx treatment, so although testing had initially returned negative for the babesias (and we have never retested) our LLMD decided to trial malarone. Malarone didn't improve the remaining bart symptoms, but did significantly improve cognitive/executive function.

She continued on malarone for the final 6 months of abx treatment and maintained the cognitive/executive improvements, but when we weaned (April 2013)DD was still only at approx. 80% improvement for PANS and bartonella pain symptoms.

She continued at this level (80%) throughout the next 8 months of herbal treatment for bartonella. It wasn't until we added herbs from Buhner's babesia protocol in Nov 2013 (we still don't know what kind of babesia or protozoan we are dealing with) that we saw all PANS and bart pain symptoms start to resolve, along with huge improvement in cognitive function. This was a gradual resolution, and I wouldn't have expected anything faster because we are only using low 1/4 dosages. Herxes were significant at higher dosages.

With the addition of every new herb from Buhner's babesia protocol I saw continuing improvement.

I can confidently say she is now performing beyond anything I have ever hoped for. Only a suggestible motor tic (only visible if suggested), is keeping me from reporting 120%.