Guest guest Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 My father had TB when I was a child and I had a febrile illness which was never diagnosed at the age of 5. Whenever I had Mantoux tests (the last at the age of 23) I had violent reactions. I was also told at one stage that I had a shadow on my lung. It's not there any more, but my rheumatologist felt strongly that we should not take the risk - prevention is better than cure and all that! n Re: [ ] Re: ON THE WAR PATH > > > Yes, France is a very beautiful country and we are very happy here. The > only medication I now take is Enbrel, which has changed my life. I have > only been taking it for just over 4 months and it started working within a > week. Up till then I had a lot of inflammation and joint nodules. I have > had to take antituberculous treatment for the possibility of latent TB - > only another two weeks to go, thank god, because the side-effects are > getting worse by the day. I started off with isoniazid, but had to stop > after 6 weeks because of alarmingly elevated liver enzymes - boy was I > worried! Since then I have been taking rifampicin and pyrazinamide, of > which I am heartily sick. I think that if I did not have such a wonderful > rheumatologist, I wouldn't have stayed the course, but he thinks it's very > important that I complete the 3 months and I couldn't bear to let him > down. > > Bye for now, > > M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 My father had TB when I was a child and I had a febrile illness which was never diagnosed at the age of 5. Whenever I had Mantoux tests (the last at the age of 23) I had violent reactions. I was also told at one stage that I had a shadow on my lung. It's not there any more, but my rheumatologist felt strongly that we should not take the risk - prevention is better than cure and all that! n Re: [ ] Re: ON THE WAR PATH > > > Yes, France is a very beautiful country and we are very happy here. The > only medication I now take is Enbrel, which has changed my life. I have > only been taking it for just over 4 months and it started working within a > week. Up till then I had a lot of inflammation and joint nodules. I have > had to take antituberculous treatment for the possibility of latent TB - > only another two weeks to go, thank god, because the side-effects are > getting worse by the day. I started off with isoniazid, but had to stop > after 6 weeks because of alarmingly elevated liver enzymes - boy was I > worried! Since then I have been taking rifampicin and pyrazinamide, of > which I am heartily sick. I think that if I did not have such a wonderful > rheumatologist, I wouldn't have stayed the course, but he thinks it's very > important that I complete the 3 months and I couldn't bear to let him > down. > > Bye for now, > > M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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