Has anyone had negative outcomes from Mephaquin Mondays?

I never took mine lol

Apart from colorful dreams, no.
Doxy made me hurl like a bulimic berserker, though.

My unit deployed in '03 and we were all given the pills to help prevent our chances of getting malaria. Eight of us out of the entire Company had allergic reactions after taking the pills for only a week or two. At first the medics said it was the "crud, then flu, then the Anaphylactic Shock symptoms started to show. We were allowed to stop taking the pills. Took about two more weeks to fully recover. All of us got the red medic alert tags and bracelets when we got back from deployment. I never had to take another anti-malaria drug again when I deployed.

No, because, uhhhh, I never took mine. I think I dumped it in the latrine after reading the line on the label that said "avoid exposure to sunlight." In Afghanistan? Really?

I said "oh shit" as soon as I saw this post. Yes, on Operation New Horizons in the 90's only the Marines were given Mefloquine while the rest of the services were given the other stuff. On Mefloquine Monday they made us take them in front of the doc and had to fill out a form about how we felt. There was only about 30 or so Marines and it was like we were roid raging then I would be crying then up chasing down someone for no reason ready to kill them. The other side effects were we didn't get suntanned even though we were on the equator, no night vision at all could see our hands if we stretched them out at night, the nightmares and the manic depressive episodes were out of control! I ended up all messed up when I got back. We had to stay on it for 3 months after returning CONUS. I was not surprised to see it's now on the VA list of exposures you can be rated for. I made sure all of that got transferred to my permanent Med records from the deployment records. I bet my life would be completely different if I had never taken that shit.

Back in 07' we had to start taking malaria pills for an upcoming Panama deployment. I became deathly ill within a few days of starting those pills. I saw my primary care physician. He said I was pneumonia like and sent me out for chest x-rays. He also told me to stop taking the malaria pills, so I did. The illness cleared up in about 2 weeks after stopping the pills.

Like most, I've taken it several times. The only issue was when we (our Company) took the 14 pill series of mephaquin pills, mixed with the old malaria prescription (can't remember the name) of 14 pills when we left Somalia in 94. It was horrible. We all stayed in the fetal position on the couch at home for the two weeks of return block leave and sat around shaking with homicidal thoughts. Our wives didn't much care for that redeployment. They were pissed. But we lived through it, and never received the two pill mix again.

Are we talking about Mefloquine? Or have they switched drugs?

I have no memory of strange dreams, but I distinctly remember about 3 months after returning home being excited about finally taking a solid dump

Be careful taking Chantix to quit smoking then....The dreams were WILD !!!! And if you've already had em....you might be more prone.