Other or Different Types of Tuberculosis?
Other or Different Types of Tuberculosis?
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When people including doctors are writing about tuberculosis they usually begin: “Tuberculosis is spread by………” or “Tuberculosis symptoms are……..”. This is wrong. Most people are usually speaking of ONE type of tuberculosis in fact PULMONARY (Lung) TUBERCULOSIS.
It is easier to think of tuberculosis in a similar way to cancer. Tuberculosis like cancer can affect ANY part of the body.
For the uninitiated there are many types of tuberculosis and many diseases related to tb that are called tuberculosis.
Parts of the body infected by tuberculosis include:
Tuberculosis meningitis: Brain
This is caused by the spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the brain,
from another site in the body. The symptoms usually begin gradually.
Genitourinary TB: see also uterus tb below
In men, genital TB may present as epididymitis or a scrotal mass.
In women, genital Tb may mimic pelvic inflammatory disease.
This type of TB causes approximately 10% of sterility in women worldwide and approximately 1% in industrialized countries.
Gastrointestinal TB:
Any site along the gastrointestinal tract may become infected.
Tuberculosis lymphadenitis (scrofula): Lymph
The most common site is in the neck along the sternocleidomastoid muscle. It usually is unilateral. It usually is unilateral, with little or no pain. Advanced disease may suppurate and form a draining sinus.
Cutaneous TB: TB of the skin
Several different types of cutaneous TB exist.
Direct infection of the skin or mucous membranes from an outside source of
mycobacteria results in an initial lesion called the tuberculous chancre
Uterus Ovarian TB:
Female genital organs are one of the common sites to be involved in women.
It is a chronic disease and bacteria may remain for long time
slowly destroying the organs. The disease may remain totally symptomless or may lead to pelvic pain,
Infertility may be caused even by early or minimal disease.
Osteo-articular Skeletal – Bone – Joint TB:
The most common site of a involvement is the spine “Potts diseases.
Symptoms include back pain or stiffness. Lower extremity paralysis occurs
in as many as half the patients with undiagnosed Potts disease
Tuberculous arthritis usually involves only 1 joint.
Although any point may be involved, the hip of the knee is affected most commonly, followed by the ankle, elbow, wrist, hip or the knee is affected most commonly, followed by the ankle, elbow wrist and shoulder.
Other types of tuberculosis
Below is a listing of some infections that are not actually tuberculosis but caused by a bacteria related to it. (Note the term mycobacterium). And yet they are still called tuberculosis or Environmental tuberculosis, or Atypical Tuberculosis. The proper name for these infections is actually NTM- “Non tuberculosis mycobacterium”
Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare
Mycobacterium Chelonae
Mycobacterium Fortuitum
Mycobacterium Gordonae
Mycobacterium Haemophilum
Mycobacterium Kansasii
Mycobacterium Marinum
Mycobacterium Xenopi
I write this because too many people including doctors use the word tuberculosis as a coverall word. When I was diagnosed with tuberculosis I was told it was a “special type” of tuberculosis, and then told it was a “different type” of tuberculosis when in fact I had been diagnosed with Mycobacterium Chelonei which is NOT actually tuberculosis.
For the record I later found out I had been misdiagnosed!
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I was diagnosed with a very serious form of tuberculosis. Prescribed first and second line drugs and eventually lung surgery was proposed.
The doctors thought I may need part of my lung removed then decided my whole lung would need removing.
I was very concerned and began to search on the internet for more information.
The more I searched the more concerned I became, not about surgery but that something was not right. At the time however I was very confused mentally as the 21 tabs a day where taking their toll but the nurses consistantly
assured me I was not having medication side effects but feeling the disease progress.
I decided to contact 20 Professors of tuberculosis in Canada, America and Britain sending them my case history and lab reports.
Sixteen replied and fifteen said I did not not have tuberculosis as the lab reports were inconsistant with such.
A professor at CDC in America put me in touch with a Professor of Tuberculosis in the UK.
He told me I had been misdiagnosed I did not need medication let alone surgery. I then decided to get a third opinion. He too stated I had been misdiagnosed.
Unknown to me at this time the first doctor who had diagnosed me had written to my gp saying surgery was no longer an option as the disease have gone too far!
Anyway I taught myself html and css and how have a website run and administered by me to help others get correct information on tuberculosis.
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