After I woke up the next day, I was ready to go to work. The pain killers prescribed by doctor were only to be used for 15 days. Daily two doses were to be taken. I worked for the 15 days well. But, after that I stopped the medicine. The next day the pain returned after a full day's work. Again, I took to the painkillers.
I had a bad feeling. I knew that what I was doing was wrong. Probably, if I was well advised, I would have changed the doctor. But, one thing was that I was ill-advised. Another thing was that I was stubborn. I sticked to my own views and beliefs. Yet another thing was I was in the midst of auditing and was running against time.
All these things coupled together to prolong the agony for me. I again started to use the painkillers. But, I used only one dose per day. Also, along with painkillers, I also used painkilling ointments and balms at work. All these combined together gave a false sense of security.
I had met my deadline and had finished all the audit work. One day, while sitting at office which was near to my house, I got a call from my wife. She requested me to bring some homeopathic medicines for her. On that day I got a mild fever. I told no to her. But she persisted saying that she was unwell. The medical store was around 1.5 to 2 km from my office. Normally, I know that I can walk any distance. I started walking. Midway, I found that I was tired. After reaching the medical shop, I felt that I had exhausted myself. Nevertheless, I returned home by walk only.
At that time, I did not realize that my legs are weakening. But, I told my wife what happened. She got worried. After two or three days, I recognized that my legs are slowly losing sensation. The feeling of touch was mild. I was walking like a drunken man. My steps were not firm.
My second daughter, 2 years old, sometimes used to fall upon me while I was laying in bed. Sometimes, she would fall upon my private parts which used to bring me a lot of pain. When I was losing sensation of legs, one day, my kid fell upon my private parts again. Then, there was pain but it was not immediately felt. I told my wife about that.
I had some homeopathic books at home. I studied some of them and found that if pain is there at the center point of shoulder bones, it can be T.B. I started to use my own homeopathic medicine apart from Feverol.
Again, we went to the doctor. I told him plainly that I got T.B. He said since there was no cough, there can be no T.B. He again prescribed some tests. Among them was blood test. Normally, I had good blood. Any time a blood test was performed upon me, blood used to come fast onto the syringe. But, at that time, I had to endure much pain because blood was not coming onto the syringe fast enough.
I was thinking that I got some neck problem. After the tests were over, we wanted to go to the doctor. He was busy for two days. I took some antibiotics. Finally, when we caught up with the doctor, he advised us to see some general physician because the problem was not with the bones, but with the fever.
My wife asked me whether I would like to see a general physician. I replied that I needed only an orthopedic.
In the meantime, my appetite had gone fully. Also, I did not visit the lavatory for 15 days. The urge to go is always there, but when I sit there it is not at all coming. Also, there was no urge to urinate. There was no full bladder type urgent calls to the bathroom. I was only visiting the bathroom routinely and emptying the bladder. I told my wife about these two additional symptoms.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Symptoms-2
After the end of the day I was tired. I had no option but to board the bus again.I had no money to pay for auto. In the meanwhile, my appetite slowly started to diminish.My wife used to scold me for eating such small amount of food.
After one month is over and I took my salary, I started to go by auto only and stopped boarding buses altogether. But, I think the damage was already done by then. Fever had not subsided and was mild enough to avoid but sitting posture got me a big trouble by back pain. I changed the doctor. The new doctor told me that I got only a respiratory tract infection and gave some medicines. I did not tell him about my back pain.
In my hometown, there was a good family physician. There, I normally used to have viral fever at least 4 or 5 times a year. He used to give an injection on the first visit with fever and used to prescribe tablet Wikoryl which mainly contained paracetamol in addition to some other compound. He used to prescribe along with Wikoryl, any capsule containing Amoxycillin compound. Fever used to stay for three or four days and used to subside.
With this background, I always thought that this fever was a viral fever and this doctors are not able to prescribe a good medicine like the doctor at my hometown did. But, the back ache perplexed me. So, even when I changed my doctor, I was not happy at his prescription. In consultation with the chemist, I changed the medicines to what my hometown doctor used to prescribe.
But, no respite. In vain, I even tried Homeopathic medicine called Feverol. I thought it had some effect on the fever. Whenever the work is over, I reached home and laid down on bed.
One day, I went to work normally and came back early. That day, the back pain was high and fever was also high. By evening what happened was an eye opener for me. It had shattered the myth that the problem was the fever.
The place at my back where two shoulder bones converge i.e., at the central point ached heavily. Whenever I lifted or moved my hand, the pain at the back was miserable.Even the movement of leg had the same effect. I told my wife about this. She immediately suggested that we should see an orthopedic. My father in law also came with us. I could not walk. The problem is not with the legs as such but whenever I put a step forward or backward, the vibrations touched the central point at the back and it used to ache heavily. Even I could not sit in the auto. Somehow we reached the hospital. My wife had a disk degeneration problem which arose at pregnancy. She was under treatment with the same doctor.
The doctor wrote medicines and prescribed an X ray. He asked whether the fever was first or whether the back pain was first. I was not sure. After a detailed examination, he prescribed medicines.
At home I had some light food. When I wanted to sit up in bed, I could not get up. I took my wife's hand as a support and pulled it hard to sit up. I had such a pain that even now, I am afraid of that incident. I cried loudly and said some thing was wrong with me.
The next day, I woke up well without any pain. I thought the medicines worked well without realizing that they were only pain killers. My fever was also gone in two or three days.
After one month is over and I took my salary, I started to go by auto only and stopped boarding buses altogether. But, I think the damage was already done by then. Fever had not subsided and was mild enough to avoid but sitting posture got me a big trouble by back pain. I changed the doctor. The new doctor told me that I got only a respiratory tract infection and gave some medicines. I did not tell him about my back pain.
In my hometown, there was a good family physician. There, I normally used to have viral fever at least 4 or 5 times a year. He used to give an injection on the first visit with fever and used to prescribe tablet Wikoryl which mainly contained paracetamol in addition to some other compound. He used to prescribe along with Wikoryl, any capsule containing Amoxycillin compound. Fever used to stay for three or four days and used to subside.
With this background, I always thought that this fever was a viral fever and this doctors are not able to prescribe a good medicine like the doctor at my hometown did. But, the back ache perplexed me. So, even when I changed my doctor, I was not happy at his prescription. In consultation with the chemist, I changed the medicines to what my hometown doctor used to prescribe.
But, no respite. In vain, I even tried Homeopathic medicine called Feverol. I thought it had some effect on the fever. Whenever the work is over, I reached home and laid down on bed.
One day, I went to work normally and came back early. That day, the back pain was high and fever was also high. By evening what happened was an eye opener for me. It had shattered the myth that the problem was the fever.
The place at my back where two shoulder bones converge i.e., at the central point ached heavily. Whenever I lifted or moved my hand, the pain at the back was miserable.Even the movement of leg had the same effect. I told my wife about this. She immediately suggested that we should see an orthopedic. My father in law also came with us. I could not walk. The problem is not with the legs as such but whenever I put a step forward or backward, the vibrations touched the central point at the back and it used to ache heavily. Even I could not sit in the auto. Somehow we reached the hospital. My wife had a disk degeneration problem which arose at pregnancy. She was under treatment with the same doctor.
The doctor wrote medicines and prescribed an X ray. He asked whether the fever was first or whether the back pain was first. I was not sure. After a detailed examination, he prescribed medicines.
At home I had some light food. When I wanted to sit up in bed, I could not get up. I took my wife's hand as a support and pulled it hard to sit up. I had such a pain that even now, I am afraid of that incident. I cried loudly and said some thing was wrong with me.
The next day, I woke up well without any pain. I thought the medicines worked well without realizing that they were only pain killers. My fever was also gone in two or three days.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
The Symptoms
Normally, we know Tuberculosis which is popularly known as T.B. From childhood days many people know that it is caused by Tuberculosis Bacillus. Many people know that the symptoms would mainly be cough. But it may not always be so. This is why this blog is written about T.B. In medical parlance it is referred to as Koch's.
This is a true story of someone who has suffered from T.B of Spine. I am writing this blog because nobody should suffer the same fate. This person is not myself but someone close to my heart. But, for simplification purposes, I shall tell the happenings in first person only.
Now, the background: I was a medium height and thin person. I could walk any distance without fatigue. My health was okay. I loved travelling. Whenever the opportunity arose, I used to travel.I had a good appetite but not used to eat much at mealtime. I used to eat voraciously in between meals,any snacks that are available at home.
I worked in one city whereas my family stayed put in another city. I used to travel all the way for over 700 kms each week to see my family. Each week, Friday evening I used to catch a train and reach my family's place by next day morning. Vice versa on Sundays.
My family members were quite worried that it carried on for a period of over one year. They convinced me to seek a job in the city that my family were in. So, finally I landed up in here, resigning the job in the other city. But, the pay was less here. I thought okay.
The nature of work is audit. On the first day of work, I had to go by bus to the auditee's workplace. The bus was heavily crowded. I felt a wrong sensation that I have made a mistake by joining in the new job. Moreover, there were too few buses that I had to walk much distance for the bus stop which is situated at other centre so that I could get bus in short time. But, the first day's work went well but physically I was tired. In the bus I was smothered. Outside the bus I had to walk. With all these, at the end of the first day, I got pain in my back.
I worked for over a month with difficulty in bus travel. At the end of the month I got fever. I thought it is only an infection and went to doctor and told about the problem and also told that my back was aching. I took medicines and the fever subsided. Without taking rest, I again travelled to my workplace by bus. This trip was nothing short of hell. I was really squeezed and I regretted my decision to board the bus.
This is a true story of someone who has suffered from T.B of Spine. I am writing this blog because nobody should suffer the same fate. This person is not myself but someone close to my heart. But, for simplification purposes, I shall tell the happenings in first person only.
Now, the background: I was a medium height and thin person. I could walk any distance without fatigue. My health was okay. I loved travelling. Whenever the opportunity arose, I used to travel.I had a good appetite but not used to eat much at mealtime. I used to eat voraciously in between meals,any snacks that are available at home.
I worked in one city whereas my family stayed put in another city. I used to travel all the way for over 700 kms each week to see my family. Each week, Friday evening I used to catch a train and reach my family's place by next day morning. Vice versa on Sundays.
My family members were quite worried that it carried on for a period of over one year. They convinced me to seek a job in the city that my family were in. So, finally I landed up in here, resigning the job in the other city. But, the pay was less here. I thought okay.
The nature of work is audit. On the first day of work, I had to go by bus to the auditee's workplace. The bus was heavily crowded. I felt a wrong sensation that I have made a mistake by joining in the new job. Moreover, there were too few buses that I had to walk much distance for the bus stop which is situated at other centre so that I could get bus in short time. But, the first day's work went well but physically I was tired. In the bus I was smothered. Outside the bus I had to walk. With all these, at the end of the first day, I got pain in my back.
I worked for over a month with difficulty in bus travel. At the end of the month I got fever. I thought it is only an infection and went to doctor and told about the problem and also told that my back was aching. I took medicines and the fever subsided. Without taking rest, I again travelled to my workplace by bus. This trip was nothing short of hell. I was really squeezed and I regretted my decision to board the bus.
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