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Natalie Louise Winter hi, i think most people think that TB is no longer about!! I m not out of he woods yet, as i still have to have a few tests done but im hoping all is well!! I was told i had TB in 2007 and when looking into how i got it was hard as i was young (22) had my TB jab at school never really went overseas!! But then i was asked where i had work and since being 16 i have work in nursing homes and as we had 12 hr shifts i was in contact with ill people for many hours ofthe day. How did your son get TB?? and how old was he? (if you dont maind me asking!!)
Pauline I am glad you are better now Natalie. It is an illness that I thought was extinct!! How wrong I was, I now know a lot more about TB and I think TB ALERT is a fantastic charity. People just don't know how serious it is and it can affect anyone. How did you contract TB if you don't mind me asking?
Natalie Louise Winter hi Pauline, gald your son has got better. What a shock from saying he has terminal cancer to TB. Many people think you can only get TB in the lungs but as we find out you dont!!! I had TB in kidneys and was also misdiagnosed many times!! And i must say bless all the TB nurses!!!
Pauline My son had TB last summer. He was misdiagnosed at first of having terminal cancer. He has made a full recovery thanks to the fabulous TB nurse, Jane, and all the doctors that cared for him. His TB was in his stomach which is rare....
Natalie Louise Winter hi, Sagrario i have sent you a personal messege. Hope this helps x
Sagrario Iglesias hi my husband died just over three years ago from a TB related illness by the name of Microbacterium Kansasi. He caught TB three times before they diagnosed him with this related illness. Is there anybody out there affected. My children are still suffering by the way that he died. Is there any organisation that could help them. Could I help others in any way
Paul Thorn The TB Survival Project website has had a make-over. Take a look!
Source: tbsurvivalproject.org
24/03/2009 – TBSP was launched World TB Day 2006 (March 24th). This World TB Day 2009, three years later, we are pleased to unveil our new-look website. We are really pleased with it, and we hope that those of you who have visited us before will like it too.
If you are in the UK and are a TB nurse, other health professional or someone working with groups vulnerable to TB, please help raise awareness this World Stop TB Day. We have various materials for public events as well as information for non specialist health professionals...
To raise awareness of TB and its symptoms this World TB Day these banners will be appearing on lamp-posts in Manchester, Wallsall, Luton, Ealing, Islington, Sutton and Hackney...
Natalie Louise Winter wow nicola i have never heard of that before. Unfortunately here in the UK doctors find it hard to diagnose TB because in the 1970's TB was taken off the curriculum so from then on doctors did not get taught about it. It took doctors years to workout that i had TB in my kidney, i was told in 2007 that i had TB and i am still waiting to see if i have more damage to my kidneys. i hope your mum is ok and gets better soon, and also your family are all ok as illness seems to affect everyone in a family. good luck, take care.
March 2 at 3:25pm · Report
A sumptuous night of fun and laughter
Indulge yourself to a night of beautiful Indian cuisine, with entertainment from award winning British comedian Shazia Mirza, and spectacular Bollywood dances by Karan. The e...
Host:TB Alert
Time:7:00PM Saturday, March 28th
Location:Radison SAS Portman Hotel
Now you can support TB Alert while you shop! Just use this link every time you go to Amazon and you will earn us at least 5% commission at no extra cost to you...
The Health Protection Agency are hosting the East of England TB conference on 18th February 2009. The conference is for everyone with an interest in TB including healthcare w...
Host:TB Alert
Time:9:00AM Wednesday, February 18th
Location:Newmarket Racecourse
Natalie Louise Winter
hi to all! i have just been looking at ACTION - Advocacy to Control TB
Internationally .. i found it very intresting and i found out alot about the
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Tuberculosis. so i have just read up on TB world wide and about TB in the uk. lots of good info about TB on the action website....so take a look!!!
January 12 at 3:07pm · Report
Please click here to see the BBC's new photojournalistic feature on the treatment of TB patients in South Africa at their homes.
Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander says in his seasonal message that he is proud to be in partnership with TB Alert in the fight against world poverty. Read more
This year's Christmas mailing features the story of Alfred, a little boy in Malawi who has taken preventative therapy to stop him becoming ill with TB. Please follow this link to read Alfred's story In Malawi, where Alfred lives, a TB Alert project is fighting the spread of TB in a new way...
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TB Alert have 12 fabulously designed Christmas cards available to buy here www.christmas-cards.org.uk/tbalert/
If you're like me and haven't yet sorted out your Christmas cards, please consider purchasing our cards, all the proceeds go towards TB Alert's work.
Wishing you all a merry festive period! :)
December 8, 2008 at 5:12am · Report
Natalie Louise Winter oh and sorry treatment for TB in the kidney is the same. As in the really nice drugs you have to take!!!!
December 5, 2008 at 6:56am · Report
Natalie Louise Winter p.s...... some of us people who have had TB have made a dvd to try and educate schools and other people abut TB. And also im doing a talk in bradford soon to talk to GP'S about TB. and we have also been trying to get a group together to fight agaist TB called TBAG (TB action group!!)
December 5, 2008 at 5:36am · Report
Natalie Louise Winter ....witch was TB!! i was told as i was young (22) and i had my BCG, i was very unlikly to have it!! how wrong!! so last november i got told i had it, i had x-rays done and other nice tests!! and it was in my kidney/s. i got put on druds for 6 m. my kids where tested for it but did not have it, so i was so happy they were ok. im still waiting for tests to be done as i still get pain. i have now asked for another doctor as its been a year and i stil dont feel too well.
December 5, 2008 at 5:33am · Report
Natalie Louise Winter Well i never knew you could get it in the kidney until 2007 when i was told i had it!! it was a shock and it was too to my GP'S!! even she didnt know you could get it in the kidney. Well before 2005 i had been in and out of hospital with bad pain in the kidney area and it also hurt alot when i had a wee!! when i was pregnant in 2005 i was taken into hospital and the doctors could find nothing wrong with me. agian in 2006 with my second child i was back in hospital with kidney pain, both times i was in for a while. then in 2007 everytime i went foe a wee it felt like i was giving birth (i gave birth twice with no pain relifef and it felt the same!!). i went to the doctors who give me antibioctics over and over again! my tests came back that i had no infection. i stook with it as i knew that something was wrong as it hurt so much. so my doctor did lots of other tests and all came back clear. so she spoke to other doctors and all decide that they could only test me for one more thing.....
December 5, 2008 at 5:29am · Report
TB Alert It is with deep regret that we are contacting you to let you know that Seonai Gordon has passed away. Seonai bravely fought TB for many years, while helping to raise awareness of the illness through her work as a journalist and with TB Alert. She will be greatly missed by members of the staff here who came to know her as a close friend. Our thoughts are with her friends and family.
http://seonai.gordon.muchlove