Has anyone had negative outcomes from Mephaquin Mondays?

How far back does this stuff go? Back in '90 before we took off to Korea (Team Spirit) we were injected with something then given a 24 hour leave. We couldnt go anywhere. My butt hurt alot at the injection site, it was agony. I remember having horrible nightmares that night as well. I sometimes get very angry but it only lasts for short bursts. I wonder if that drug did that to me? Can anyone answer this?

In 08 my unit deployed to Afghanistan we started taking mephaquin and within a few days half of us were literally just out of commission for about four days. Sudden uncontrolled vomiting and diarrhea. I thought for a second that I was going to be medivac'd out. Had to have 3-4 I.V's a day just to get fluids pushed through. The P.A. On the fob did a test to see if I had malaria which came out negative. About two weeks into deployment they changed the anti malaria meds. No one got sick again.

I finally read "Roughneck 91" a great book about a 3d SFG ODA in AFG (but I'm biased). They had a OS moment when they thought their perimeter was being overrun but it turned out to be a team member having a bad mephaquin dream about a snake. I can totally relate.

We used mephaquin when I was in Afghanistan in 05. I had a dream that I was caught in a burning room, the detail was crazy from watching where the fire started all the way to where it surrounded me. Very vivid.

It just aint good for ya- but malaria is worse

Had soldiers come to the clinic all the time dreading their malaria shots. Happy they stopped using Mephaquin.

I saw that one of the side effects was sensitivity to sun light and being a ginger I was very apprehensive about that one thing. I took it anyways. When I got to Afghanistan I was outside for 5 mins and got a nasty sunburn. That was the last day I took it.

Took it before Central American trip. Nightmares, sweating and some cognitive processing issues. Stopped taking it.

After a week of horrific dreams we all stopped taking it

The wonderful world of mephaquin(and his ugly sisters). Dumped it before taking it because of the ugly side effects. The GI issues are pretty common(as with most antibiotics), but the nervous system breakdown/mood lability/chance of tender tear(especially Achilles) made it easy to stay away. It is a nasty, nasty class of antibiotics and I'm glad I never took it. Civilian sector it's pretty much a "last resort" antibiotic given when other antibiotics aren't working or a relatively serious STD.