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A positive TB test
Ann Bartlett
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 06:31 PMre: A positive TB test
Dr. Fran Cogen
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 10:26 PMSo, Ann: you think that these may be false positive TB tests?? Very interesting.
re: re: A positive TB test
Ann Bartlett
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 10:35 PMI think they may have been. The first positive was when I was 14, took a second and it was fine. Then when I was 28, I was living in boston and had to have one for the health dept, in order to get my license, and I had another positive, then 3 years of clean tests and when I was 34 another positive. Each has been followed with a scan or x ray and they have talked about doing a biopsy if it pops up again.
I had one done last year after I developed a chronic cough, and it was negative, and I had a chest xray which showed inflamed lungs from coughing. Later, I found out it is a mold allergy!
Lungs have always been my weakness, all my life! I call them my barking dogs!
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T1DM/TB Relationship
RoseanneD
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 11:27 AMFindings related to the relationship b/t T1DM & TB leads me to feel that Dr. Denise Faustman of MA General may really be on to something. It is my understanding that she does not receive grant funding to further her research, which is the so-far success of utilizing an old and inexpensive drug used to treat TB for decades. With the commonality of T1DM and TB being more and more proven, perhaps we, the diabetes community, need to support Dr. Faustman's research more strongly.
Roseanne
re: T1DM/TB Relationship
Dr. Fran Cogen
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 01:08 PMFor those interested in Dr. Faustman's research with BCG (used in the past as an immunization against TB), please see the following link to her home page:
http://www.faustmanlab.org/clinicaltrial/clinicalt.html
My understanding is that Phase 1 trials have just been completed.
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Ryan Smith
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I have had 3 positive TB tests over the course of 39 years having diabetes. While further study always comes out clean, no TB. So this is a very interesting issue to examine and it's definitely not a 3rd world issue. I think there is a glitch with diabetes and TB tests.