September 29, 2009

Bad Medicine

I had not fully realised the potential and degree for an adverse reaction to TB antibiotics until reading this thread;
I just went through a horrible ordeal with having a positive skin test myself. My Dr. told me I had a positive TB skin test and said I had "Latent TB". Later, after becoming very sick from terrible side effects from the Latent TB med and having an inflamed liver, I ended up seeing an Infectious Disease Dr. (they know a lot more than MD's about TB) I was given a test called " Quantiferon TB Gold Test", it is a simple blood test and it will determine if you really have Latent TB. My test came back Negative, my Dr. was wrong, I never even had it.