I was only asking about TB skin tests coming back positive. As I am under a specialist for alsorts.?

The reason for my question on here is: Why is it taking my specialist so long to do something, if a skin test says positive. I am tested for hiatus hernia as well. Of course I am doing something about this. I certainly am not ignoring this. I know it is serious. Just that a skin postive, can maybe just saying I have been in contact with it...
I was only asking about TB skin tests coming back positive. As I am under a specialist for alsorts.?
Yes. Here's what will happen. You tested positive to the first test. OK, now they do the next test (another skin tine test, but larger in scope). If that one comes positive, they put you on an anti-TB drug for 6 months to a year (depends how conservative your doc wants to be).





Yes, it is very possible to have been exposed but have no present infection. The problem is that TB is like HIV ... once you are positive, you are always positive. So the medication therapy will kill any infection and allow the virus to go dormant. You will get on a schedule of every 2 years getting a chest x-ray, just to ensure you don't develop the full-blown illness. Whenever you develop a lingering cough or an especially bad one, you'll go to the doctor just to check.





Mine was discovered in 1990. I just so happened to have spent a lot of time in the NYC subway system during the height of the AIDS epidemic, which made my doctor suspect someone coughed on me (TB is prevalent in many AIDS-infected cultures) in the subways.





It's nothing to really worry about, there are millions of us out there. Oh yeah, you can just never give blood since the Red Cross doesn't want us to spread it via our blood -- and they have no way of determining who is infected actively and who is dormant.
I was only asking about TB skin tests coming back positive. As I am under a specialist for alsorts.?
my hubby tests positive also ask for a chest x-ray. A positive could mean you were exposed to tb you may not have it. If its an exposure you will be given a med called INH for 6 months then from then on you will haveto have an X-ray instead of the skin test

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