Reply #8: i had those, the pills too [View All]

[pitohui]

you'll be fine

just set your cell phone to ring at all the times you have to take those stupid typhoid pills, but it's worth it -- significantly cheaper to do the oral vaccine for typhoid

i just wish they had a decent vaccine for malaria, i had a bad reaction to lariam and now i do without, but if i'm in a serious malaria area i will have to spring for the more expensive pill (is it malarone?) if the cheap stuff won't work there :-(

i got out of the rabies shots by saying i wouldn't pet any animals and out of the hep b shots by saying i wasn't going to be having sex w. natives -- that didn't work for my male friend tho, the same travel doc just assumes a male is going to do crap he won't tell the doc -- and it isn't sexism, she's a female doctor, but it cost him twice as much to get the shots when all was said and done because she gave him more

oh, and he got the typhoid shots to get it over with, rather than the oral vaccine, so that was an added cost

anyway, it's well worth it, you probably wouldn't get any of these diseases anyway but if that's what it takes to be accepted into the country/on the tour/in the program, it's well worth it


focus on the goal, you will never regret taking such a trip