u should visit the respiratory / lung dept

not ENT

No friends and family member infected

At starting only coughing then around 5 months starting to have no appetite for food and then some time sleeping will have cold sweat even sleeping with aircond

fewer up and down, coughing have little phlegm

After checking in GH and stay in hospital for 5 days, they let me back home for self home quarantine 14 days

Have to take total 6 months of non stop medication

Our kkm is really good because i only pay rm1 for checking and the rest (hospitalization & TB medicine) all free

Thanks for sharing

May I know if you mingle around with foreign workers?

or where do you think u got it from?

I dont mingle with foreigner and i dont know where i got it from

During hospitalize atleast got 6-7 patient same ward with me all also kena TB

Wow thx for informing.

From.what i heard not easy to get TB. Need to have combo of malnutrition and living in crowded space with other TB ppl to get it.

Also heard the antibiotics very annoying cos if not take as instructed for full 6 months the TB not going to go awat then need top up another months/years of antibiotics again.

Yep even if u go clinic, if u tell u cough more than 1 month, they will start asking you questions on symptoms of TB exactly as what you described. They asked me any fever, got night terror or not, sleep OK or not.

TB medication takes a long time to cure, best not to skip. If you work near to foreigners or have close family coughing and u know they work near to foreigners especially construction workers, better check.

Worst case is when the tubules appear, hence the name tuberculosis, the tubules will damage not only your lungs, it will appear everywhere, like brain, kidney, liver, knee joints, throat.

Issue now is the gov stopped giving the BCG injection @ standard 6 in 2001, so the only injection is when newborn. The vaccine loses effect at 12 YO by 24+ years old start work in 2025, most people are no longer immune, easily infected from foreigners and spread around.

Last time is difficult to kena due to everyone being vaccinated, now no more all are exposed fully

This post has been edited by dest9116: Oct 5 2025, 06:47 PM

If cough over 1 week with phlegm green colour and deep cough chest pain when cough or wake up from coughing, go clinic and tell them ur symptom, insist blood test to confirm bacteria or virus, if bacteria they will give antibiotic.

Don't expect u can recover, nowadays bacterial cough very difficult to recover without antibiotic. Take antibiotic after 2 days will feel better, by the end of the antibiotic u confirm fully recover.

If no take, u might progress to pneumonia and u will die without ventilator. Don't play with cough

True. That's why amoxicillin is one of the top/frequent purchase when ang mohs travel over to mexico. They stock up..

I did see doctor and recovered since pharmacy refuse sell me med, I remember the med include 1 week worth of antibiotic, I never think it as serious until recently my friend husband die from myocarditis , which is caused by virus infection from flu and cough

If you got plegm I suggest you go to Farmasy and get 4 dissolving tablet of mucosolvan. Really works take it 2 time a day and 3rd day u will be much much better with almost no plegm

Refuse to sell? Lol. That's because you're looking in the wrong direction.

Yes the medicine need to take 2 months high dose and 4 months normal dose (total 6 months), lucky my Tb cure after 6 months of medicine but doctor say if near Tb patient maybe will kena tb again


Doctor at GH ask if i have taken BCG jab (taken when 12 yo) and ask if i have cough blood, lucky no cough blood if not then maybe gg liao

Now i see people cough i will stay far far, scare if kena again need to take medicine for 6 months again

After take the medicine when you pee your pee is near to orange colour

nowadays hard to get antibiotic, they scared of antibiotic strain

Ya that's why, understood they dowan simply give, that's why if dowan give just insist a blood test they can detect is virus or bacteria based on the type of antibody in the blood. The test take 5 mins only to draw blood and test at the machine. If bacteria and u been coughing over a week they must give you the antibiotic. Else they will risk u infect from upper respirator to lower respirator, become pneumonia that time ur lungs all inflamed and water in lungs, can't breathe then die.

Just go to another clinic if they being asshole or if they don't have the blood testing machine.

This post has been edited by dest9116: Oct 5 2025, 11:49 PM

very easy to get. Even if you sit nearby a TB patient in a bus.

TB is very contagious

There have been several reported cases in journal articles of TB patients travelling in public transport such as planes and buses; and then they tested the passengers who were sitting nearby the patient. And those sitting nearby were found to be infected.

But one thing unique about TB is that if you are infected, it is still latent and it won't activate yet that fast. Then for some people, the latent infection doesn't even activate at all throughout their life. So, many ppl are not even aware that they have the infection because it's just latent infection (no symptoms = no sickness = not contagious). Only when it is activated (showing symptoms = feeling sick = contagious), then you are a danger to others.

speaking of TB, my late father passed away because of TB. He couldn't do operation to remove the "water" lung because high risks of operation failure due to weak health, he got kena stroke before ~10 years ago. Besides he's also a smoker and always drink a can of beer per day.

Now that I keep on coughing for nearly 2 weeks already, I'm not sure if I got infected with TB as well already went to small clinic for antibiotics and generic cough medicines, still got some phlegm in my throat that forces me to cough time to time

What are his symptoms?

He didn't take the TB antibiotics?

There is a possibility u r infected if u stay with him in the same house. And possibly it has activated. For some ppl, the activation comes 10 or 20 years later.

Mind sharing what are your symptoms now? Any chest pain? Any breathing difficulties?

His symptoms were constantly have to cough, even at night sleep time also can hear him cough, skins getting darker as months pass by, and also just feel weak in general. Initially he went to Sun*** Hospital by himself and checked with a doctor, then my father complained to me that the doctor did not diagnose him with TB but with something else, for that I don't really know the details la but in the end visit another doctor. Have to stay in the hospital to draw out the "water" in the lungs, discharged out of hospital after a week, then have to come back again do the same thing because "water" still gets into one of his lungs. Bought the medicines, got like a lot of medicines for him to take lol

He usually comes back home late, sleeps in separate room. Even if he arrived home early e.g. 8.30pm-9pm, he would sit outside home and smoke while reading online novel until 11pm then only go to bed. He got curi-curi smoke even though doctor told him stop smoking most likely because of nicotine withdrawal. Doctor did mentioned to take the medicines, but to cure the symptom really have to depend on luck since his health is also weak, taking medicines just only prolong his health for few months but won't cure the TB. Doctor recommended to take surgery but problem is his weak health, the success rate is super low about 5%. In the end succumbed to TB one day at night, he didn't respond at his own bed at home.

So far my symptoms are getting better compared to last week, just the throat feels little itchy now. I had to get cough syrups instead of Strepsils because Strepsils always don't work. As for chest pain, not really chest pain but the area below the left side of my lung, happens only sometimes after eating when sitting down. Breathing okay so far. Last 2 weeks ago when I woke up then can feel the throat pain and itchy.

If normal antibiotic not working, quickly go back clinic or hospital tell them what antibiotic u took and not working.