I once went through a serious bout with malaria that I picked up in , where else, Africa. I was treated there and it seemed to work for awhile but when I got back home it relapsed. My doctor here gave me a heavy dose of a broad spectrum antibiotic which did work. The downside was it killed a lot of red blood cells which I needed to regenerate before I could go back to work, which I wanted to do. He said you can speed up that process by taking a daily double dose of iron pills. He said there were a few possible side effects. Only one of those side effects plagued me. As a result, there is no one on this planet that knows more than me about constipation. All from a fuckin' mosquito.