Recently Answered Questions on Tuberculosis

I have been suffering from tuberculosis since December 2015..I have taken medicine up to June 2016 but from Nov I m suffering from high chest pain, abdominal pain,leg pain joint pain.. Please help me doctor

I am tuberculosis patient since two years.i i am from amritsar,punjab. i completed government course but TB reappeared again.my treatment is going since three months but still TB is positive in my sputum.My doctor is going for MDR test of TB.what should i do now.

In 2018, I was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and treated for the same with AKT 4 for total of 6 months. The test was confirmed by FNAC as I had suprasternal lymph node swelling. Before diagnosis my weight came down to 48 kg from 56. I had recovered well from tuberculosis and gained weight too. Now, My weight has been varying around 70-72 kg since 3 years and no such typical symptoms of tuberculosis is present. But I am having symptoms of back strain, low grade fever sometimes(99.5°F) since 3-4 months, low mood, etc. Based on history of TB, My doctor advised test for the same. I want to ask if TB can happen without weight loss or not?

After Doctor told me I have Tuberculosis, He gave me AKT4 prescription but AKT4 was less according to my weight (67kg) , He told me to start AKT4 neglecting my weight factor, I started it but I was tensed so I consulted other Pulmonologist, he told me to start DOTS and take full 6 month course, So After taking 1 Month of AKT4, I switched to DOTS without skipping a day. Now my concern is that Could this have affected my treatment in any way? Should get tested for MDR?

My nephew is suffering on tuberculosis t. B from last 2 year currently he is cure as mdr patient with m d chest special doctor, but finally he is also surrender abt this treatment not able to continue treatment after see aal report of 10 month continue treatment, he say sorry I'm not able to handle this case pls suggest how we can save his life

I have pain in all joint of body while taking treatment of tuberculosis since last 1.5 month mymedicines are AKT-4, Benadon, ciplox 400mg, and omidom and febugel 80. Uric acid is 11.5, water in lungs is 200gm approximately 7days ago which was 400gm 25days ago. i have to know about my current treatment and also anout joint pain and is any treatment/precautions/side effects of joint pain.

Tuberculosis Dr. I am a tb patient i've completed my 6 month course of medication and in chest xray after 6th month there is nothing found but my Dr. Prescribed me to carry my medication further three months ..why? directly 3 months why not 1 or 2 months ...following this I also want to ask that I always feel thirsty even after drinking water and most of the times after waking up from bed I feel my head gets heavy and then gets normal after a couple of seconds why all these things are happening?

Hi Sir/Madam, I have requested same question before but this time would like to go in detail I have heavy Pain radiating from neck to right Arms .Also I feel Heaviness of the head on movements .Kindly can you suggest some test from Tuberculosis point of view .As same was detected almost 10 years back and at that time it was treated successfully. I wanted to Ensure it has not come back again.Any Specialist's opinion from Borivali-Kandivali Mumbai region will be highly appreciated .

I hd a lump in neck n it was removed 4 test.The test resulted positive 4 Koch's (Tuberculosis).Doctor hs advised me dt it is curable completely with a course of medicines in 6 mnths. nw I m afraid that it mi8 effect my family members. Will it? If so what shld I do to prevent it from spreading over to my family members

Hello sir I was diagnosed with abdominal tuberculosis last month . I taken medicine time to time but my question is this I have no symptoms of TB before or not now. On the basis of CT scan report My pulmonologist start TB medicine. My weight is gain day by day. I want to know please see the attached report and tell me is it really tuberculosis or anything else. Because I was also diagnosed 2year ago from extra pulmonary tuberculosis and I taken full treatment and doctor stopped Att after 10months complete treatment but now again diagnosed. Yesterday doctor said that we are fighting with blind enemy and actual confirmation about effect of treatment after seeing CT scan after 6 months. My family afraid is this really TB or its previous infection or this could be MDR. I don't have any time of symptoms like cough, weight lose,fever nothing but infact weight gain 3kg in a month. No side effects from medicine also like before. I want better treatment. We are