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Suffers Tuberculosis Of Knee, Treated With Arthritis Medicines. Operated On Knee, Feels Drowsy, Tired. Why ?
Hi my dad suffers from Tuberculosis of the knee passed 6-8 months they first thought it was arthritis and was treating him with arthritis meds, then they thought it was gout in knee, but after 6 months they did a scan and relised it was TB in knee. hbe had an operation on knee to flush out the TB and his taking a lot of tablets a day. he feels so much drowsy, tired, temperature and laziness everyday.
Tue, 23 Jul 2013
hi and welcome to health care magic....dude TB is a chronic usually slow growing illness caused by mycobacterium.....besides other sign symptoms patient become anorexic,having fever usually in the evening,and loss his weight.all this weakness laziness and drowsyness is due to TB...fortunately with treatment it has a very good responce
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