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Can Loss Of Weight And Back Pain Be Due To Relapse Of TB?
sir i was having water in my lung in june 2009. i got the treatment . it was TB and i was suggested to take medicine for 9 months. i took medicine for 5 months and fails to complete the dose. I took TB test in march 2011. But there is no symptoms of TB found.Now i feeling back pain and loosing my weight too. what would the problem? please suggest me..I am attaching test report of water taken from lung in june2009.
Mon, 9 Jun 2014
HI.
5 months treatment is definitely not a complete treatment of a proven tuberculosis.
But again - loosing weight is certainly one of the important symptoms of TB. The back-pain can be or may not be the reason.
You need further clinical examination and investigations like X-ray/ CT / MRI for the back-pain as TB of the vertebrae is a well known disease.
You certainly may need further treatment. And if needed complete the course.
5 months treatment is definitely not a complete treatment of a proven tuberculosis.
But again - loosing weight is certainly one of the important symptoms of TB. The back-pain can be or may not be the reason.
You need further clinical examination and investigations like X-ray/ CT / MRI for the back-pain as TB of the vertebrae is a well known disease.
You certainly may need further treatment. And if needed complete the course.
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