Hi Guys
The reason that many people think TB is a coughing or breathing difficultly thing are way off the mark. I am a smoker but it never affected my lungs that were in anyway hurting through it all....I smoked through treatment.
TB attacks the most vulnerable part of you when it chooses to lay into you...in my case it went to my throat and ears = painful to eat or swallow.
And that is what stuffed up the Doctors.
It attacks the weakest part of you....
That is why you never hear of people of people actually dying of AIDS....you normally read they have died from pneumonia related things or such like...
Depends though where it attacks you.
If you have AIDS for example, and you get/catch TB..you are going to die. Your immune system cannot fight it.
So, the correlation between TB and AIDS is mostly true. But a hugely misunderstood thing. And I speak from first hand knowledge.
This is going to be a long post, if anyone chooses to bail out, do it
now. Content below is 18+ rated but applicable to ALL.
- So roll back to around 2005. Straight Guy. Never been ill a day in my life. Love Girls. Don't go overboard. Stay safe at all times.
- At my computer one Evening, feel a bit of pain in my ear
- Think nothing of it. It will go away.
- Next Day is a little more pain. Now throat is sore too.
- Try to eat Breakfast...have pain in both ears and throat too....strange. It must go away.
- Next Day = not able to eat anything. Too painful to swallow or eat anything because my ears feel like they are on fire when I try and swallow even water...something is clearly not right....
- Roll on around 4 to 6 Months later.....Family supportive and trying to find out what is making me get thinner and thinner and tests are done...no solutions. Everyone is wondering now have I got AIDS...you know getting thinner and thinner. Community is on **** talk mode....and that affects my family too...because everyone is talking about how thin I have become......if you are unable to eat....how the stuff can you stay keep up your weight??
- And so it dragged on. Everyone looks at you strangely....like weirdly.
- I drove MYSELF around 200KM to the nearest State Hospital for more tests.
- Doctor took one look at me and said come back next Week. I need to bring equipment with next time to test you.
- Drove myself down there again...he did not bring the stuff with him...he forgot. So he says, we need to to Blood tests on you. You need XRays too..
- Than this arrogant prick (white like me) gets into his Benz and goes back to wherever the Hell he came from..
- So, the last time I visit him he claps his hands and says something like this" you must stop sleeping on wet grass. You are full of TB". And joyfully gives himself an expert rating...
- And he did indeed nail it. As much as I disliked his ******* ways... Correct Medicine does wonders.
- Three Days after I could start eating again. The pain started to go away.
- And then the "family kicked in".....TB treatment is a Six Month process....you have to finish the course..
- Now, family finds out I have TB....and as I have said here....they left me on my own...almost like a leper.
So, I nursed myself through it all. And came out on top. Even Spiders think twice to bite me.
I have records of everything when I was ill. And people speak Crap just cause they can.
Strange hey. Hence my dislike of people talking crap about people . I don't like it.
Facts count. Nothing else.
I am not the smartest kid on the block...but at least I know it.
And that Guys is all I want to say,
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