Hi there tekoo are you considered healthy, and clear of TB now ? Or TB is under "Latent TB" controlled unactive stage?

My father was under suspicion of TB by HKL (non-Respiratory related body organ), somehow was told to go to IPR for TB screening.
Checked Chest X-Ray in IPR was cleared, they kept on collected tons of blood and saliva samples every time my fathers visits them for appointment, and it has been like 3-4 months we didn't hear back from them.

It is very scary that the doctor consulted her superior mentor, and they just gave out antibiotic drugs out without waiting for the TB results.

This post has been edited by iSean: Aug 1 2022, 02:50 PM

Congrats being cleared.
Well, any recommendation which type of TB Screening to take?

Your one only collect sputum for lung?
My dad went multiple times, always "sputum" the saliva and they go collect "blood sample"
Wait for multiple weeks but no results.

Do you feel that your body is very weaken by Antibiotics at the 6 months of treatment?

My dad was given TB Medication, when HKL suspect my dad has TB in other parts of his body.
Ask my dad go IPR do Chest X-Ray, then was consult some young doctors getting some family background, say chest x-ray is clear no issues.
But, since under suspicion of TB, the young doctor consult with her supervisor, the supervisor pass down to the doctor say for "safety precaution" just put on TB Antibiotics medications.

Then I follow my dad go through the long briefing session on TB medication.

I feel something not right, then go consulting doctors in private as second opinion.
The private doctor say better don't start.

Few months later, my dad weight loss is increasing, I now suspect is TB causing issues.
And IPR macam not transparent with my dad's conditions la, after waiting so long, no sound on the culture results.
Then since we not on the TB Antibiotics treatment, they mentioned that we 'declined' treatment over their side. When themselves can't even confirm whether my dad has TB

Also I don't feel safe bringing myself and my dad go to IPR, with people there coughing and patient with poor hygiene all the time...
Sendiri Tak ada Lung Disease, will easily contracted with TB/Lung disease.

I went there few times really packed in the morning session...

I see.

Weaken as in due to heavy antibiotics causing side effects. Because I heard the pharmacy doctor say
will cause pee orange, skin rash and sticky sweat...



Well we actually visit private first, then also go to GH as back up and go there get cheaper medication.

Private Hospital did some biopsy on the body organ and sent to outsourced pathology lab, report come out have some bacteria that looks like TB in the slides. (not sure the actual way to describe this)
Then my parents took the report to GH as well, doctors suspect it is TB, then send to IPR do Chest X-Ray. But nothing in lungs, seems healthy.
The we thought might be Latent-TB become active in other parts of body when my father get UTI. (My father did surgery in GH to remove a mass on his nose in January, I wonder is it at surgery there tools not clean get infection la.)

After first visit at IPR, they told my dad start 6 month long treatment, I feel something not right in the procedure. Go to the private hospital on the same day hear second opinion from the doctor.
Private Doctor advise he will request from pathology lab to do slide reading again, confirmed it isn't TB, and told us not to take the TB medication at the mean time.
So we just follow private doctor's instruction.

Then we just go back IPR told them, we don't want to take medication until the culture say positive for TB then only start take medication....
But IPR never came back with culture results despite my dad did few blood and sputum collections in GH and IPR...
So we kinda gave up on Government Healthcare side...

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But 6 months later TS, you finished your TB Medication, but negative from the initial culture (first sputum) sample. Then I feel weird lah, since initial Mantoux Test you say positive edi, kinda weird they can't grow it...
If you say 6 month later, you did another sputum test, the lab didn't managed to grow the TB sample, that one would be normal, means you cleared from TB.

"A normal sputum culture can take 1 to 8 weeks to provide results. A rapid sputum test can tell if a person has TB within 24 hours."

This post has been edited by iSean: Aug 2 2022, 11:18 PM

Yes.

First report propose is
observation of Granulomatous Inflammation

bring dad to HKL they suggest TB

after that go private, doctor email patlab do rereading the slides :
does not surmount to a diagnosis of TB

Granulomas mixed with inflammatory infiltrate could suggest an underlying infectious aetiology with TB

bacterial/fungal/parasitic causes /saecoudosis / inflammatory bowel diseases also possible

private say dont continue TB meds

then balik IPR for follow up appointment tell them we dont want follow up with them, since scare will weaken immune system also got risks of antibiotic resistance develop, but IPR will continue to collect sputum, blood sample to screen for TB for a few weeks lo 😶