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Did Pulmonary Tb cause AMS for me?

2017-12-14 06:53:22
I'd been diagnosed with pulmonary tb around 2 yrs ago and took medication for 9 months till I recovered. But last month I'd been to 6 day high altitude trek in Himachal. I was perfectly fine for first 3 days. But on the day of the summit I was hit with Acute Mountain Sickness. I was completely out of breath, oxymeter showed a reading below 60 and had to descend soon. Do you think tb had something to do with this? And do I need to take chest x-rays to check if my lungs still haven't recovered?
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Acute mountain sickness is a complete separate entity.TB has nothing to do with it.chest XRAY will only show residual changes of past pulmonary TB. For your satisfaction you may compare thisXray with your old X-,rays

Answered2017-12-14 12:23:09

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