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TB diagnosis

Post a new topicby livingwith on Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:51 pm


In Dec. 07 I began to have pain in my left chest when I took a deep breath. Having had a previous collapsed lung, I went to my doctor fearing this was happening again. After taking a chest x-ray, he confirmed I did NOT have a collapsed lung; however, I had shadowing in my lung that was not acceptable. He questioned me about TB and whether I had ever had TB. Although I had an exposure to TB approx. 4 years earlier, I told him the skin test was negative. He did another skin test which again was...Read the full article

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