Saturday, October 06, 2007

Latent Tuberculosis


Had the jab taken on Tuesday and the Skin test (PPD) on thursday. The funny thing is that it turned out to be positive (measured bruise : 2cm in diameter). The docs diagnosed it with Latent Tuberculosis (for whatever reason) after looking through my med records & x-rays. Did an hour-long of med check-up and was forced to attend a counseling session. WTH. I was almost late for my lab session because of that but luckily, there's no midterm exams on that day..phew... Recommended medication : Isoniazid for 9 months . WTH. There's too many side effects with that medication (nausea, no-alcohol consumption, persistent paresthesia, easy bruising yada yada yada...for 9 MONTHS !!) bleh.... no thanks !

2 comments:

bananatan04 said...

TB?????!!!!! Lim stay 100 feet away from everyone. haha. ;p

lXl said...

WTH ... aha.. its latent TB la..non contagious...