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Is It Possible To Confuse Epilepsy For Brain TB?

TAKING TREATMENT OF Epilepsy IN 2007...AND OK..BUT FIRSTLY THE DR. NOT UNDERSTAND AND THINK I HAVE BRAIN TB... HE GIVE ME BRAIN TB TREATMENT. AFTER START TB MEDICINE ABOUT ONE MONTH I M NOT CURE....NOW I DONE MRI ...ITS CLEARLY THE Epilepsy...AND THE DR. GIVE ME RIGHT MEDICINE NO I OK... MY QUESTION IS THAT: IN 2010 I GOT MARRIED AND BUT NO BABY..MY SEAMAN COUNT ARE NORMAL...BUT AFTER DONE HYSTOCOPY OF MY WIFE AND TISSUE SAMPLE FROM UTRUS AND TUBE ITS SHOW POSITIVE TB..BUT quantitative gold IS NEGATIVE..NOW SHE IS TAKING MEDICIN OF TB.. I WANT TO ASK THAT ....MY WIFE IS EFFECT FROM TB DUE MY MEDICAL HISTORY...THAT I HAVE WRONGLY TAKING TB MEDICIN...SUGGEST ME WHAT TEST I HAVE DONE THAT CLEARLY ME...
Mon, 6 Apr 2015
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I read your question and I understand you must be very concerned.

I must confess I am not sure I understood all the details of your history. From what I understand there are many things which don't fit and have to be cleared.
First I must tell you that having epilepsy doesn't exclude tuberculosis.
Epilepsy can have many causes such as stroke, tumor or infections like tuberculosis. So it could well be the case that you had tuberculosis which caused epilepsy.
You speak of receiving cures for tuberculosis for a month and were not cured, but you must know that cure for brain TB is continued for at least 9 months, it is a difficult infection to cure even when diagnosis is correct and if you really had TB interrupting the cure was a mistake.
You speak of MRI diagnosing epilepsy, but MRI doesn't diagnose epilepsy, diagnosis of epilepsy is made by seizure observation and EEG. MRI is done to search for a cause, so if there was any abnormal finding on MRI you should know what precisely it was (infection, stroke, tumor) because it's not epilepsy which is seen on MRI.
So without any data on how was TB or epilepsy diagnosed, nor any data on your signs and symptoms, it is impossible to give an opinion. You should either go back to your documentation or talk to your doctors to learn your exact diagnosis, if it is epilepsy what was the cause.

Feel free to come back again and ask more questions, but possibly with more info.
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Is It Possible To Confuse Epilepsy For Brain TB?

I read your question and I understand you must be very concerned. I must confess I am not sure I understood all the details of your history. From what I understand there are many things which don t fit and have to be cleared. First I must tell you that having epilepsy doesn t exclude tuberculosis. Epilepsy can have many causes such as stroke, tumor or infections like tuberculosis. So it could well be the case that you had tuberculosis which caused epilepsy. You speak of receiving cures for tuberculosis for a month and were not cured, but you must know that cure for brain TB is continued for at least 9 months, it is a difficult infection to cure even when diagnosis is correct and if you really had TB interrupting the cure was a mistake. You speak of MRI diagnosing epilepsy, but MRI doesn t diagnose epilepsy, diagnosis of epilepsy is made by seizure observation and EEG. MRI is done to search for a cause, so if there was any abnormal finding on MRI you should know what precisely it was (infection, stroke, tumor) because it s not epilepsy which is seen on MRI. So without any data on how was TB or epilepsy diagnosed, nor any data on your signs and symptoms, it is impossible to give an opinion. You should either go back to your documentation or talk to your doctors to learn your exact diagnosis, if it is epilepsy what was the cause. Feel free to come back again and ask more questions, but possibly with more info.