How to take l-arginine?

So how can I take l-arginine? I just wanted to check with everyone's knowledge on this supplement, who here has been able to take it with no problems at all, who had problems with it and what do you think prevented you from taking it successfully. And of course who decided simply not to take it for whatever reason and why that reason was.

Also is key... is there anything that you took with it to successfully counteract the negative effects?

Reason I'm asking is because of my darn stubborn bartonella infection, I want to add it in . Now when I was like 20 10 years ago I could take high doses and I wasn't sick, I could easily tolerate the high doses. But now when I take it some of my symptoms get worse but some get dramatically better. All bart symptoms get much better but I get something flare up in my lungs at the very same time. It is like either a virus or mycoplasma? I also remember getting a sore throat.

I am trying to figure out what I can take with the l-arginine to prevent this from happening. I can't remember if it was l-lysine? I wonder if I take monolaurin and l-lysine if I will be able to tolerate the l-arginine?