My Experience of Tuberculosis (TB)

I was diagnosed with TB in my eye about 3 weeks ago. TB was going around my college and many students were diagnosed with latent TB and therefor the whole college was requested to have a blood test. My blood test came back positive and i had to visit the hospital for a chest x-ray which came back clear. Whilst i was going through this process i was also visiting a specialist optician about blurryness in my eye for a few weeks. After a few weeks i was diagnosed that i had TB in my eye and my immune system faught it off. Both the chest and eye specialist consulted each other and it was decided that i should be put on the full course of tablets for active TB. Now ...  Read the complete review

You can imagine how shocked I was when I was diagnosed with TB. I had the BCG when I was at school and still have the scar to prove it so I'd always thought that I was basically immune. Christmas 1999 was a strange one for me, my family were recovering from the death of my mother and to start feeling ill just before the holidays was the last thing any of us needed. Anyway, I went for some routine blood tests and a TB test to discover why I had been so tired and couldn't shift a nagging tickle in the back of my throat. The TB test was a simple injection into my left forearm which had to be 'read' or examined by the physician in two days. At ...  Read the complete review

I had the dreaded injection as a teenager. So how could I have Tuberculosis? I had a car crash last October. At the time we thought no-one had been injured: my daughter didn't even drop the chocolate biscuit she had been holding. I was thrown forward against my seatbelt, but didn't appear to have been injured at all. Three days later I started to get pains in my right breast. Being a little dozy, I didn't immediately connect this with the crash - after all I had taken my daughter to the Doctor's the day after the accident, and we had both seemed fine. When the pains were still there a couple of days later, I even did a ...  Read the complete review