Diagnosis

I sat there, sitting in the bare waiting room.

"Andy?" asked a voice at the doorway.

I looked up and saw a young doctor, about the same age as me holding my file.

I followed him into his much larger consultation room.

The pleasantries followed, before he went to the crux of the consultation.

"So, I've had a look at your chest x-ray from earlier today and I can see some calcification in some areas of the lung" as he pointed to the chest x-ray on the screen.

He continued. "Given that your past history and that you don't have any symptoms, I would say you have latent tuberculosis".

I gave him a stunned mullet look.

Umm.

"So some of the treatment options is to start you on some treatment to reduce the risk of it being active."


30 minutes later and after a blood extraction for a liver function test, I came out with two bottles of bills.

One bottle read Isoniazid 100mg three tablets once a day and another which read Pyroxin 25mg one tablet once a day.

So here starts the first day of my next nine month's worth of treatment and pill taking.

Oh and apparently no alcohol as well as Isoniazid increases liver toxicity (hence why the baseline liver function test).

Umm...