I feel better now that the side effects are gone. Not very long ago my bones were aching and I had difficulty speaking but its all in the past now. When I look at myself in the mirror I just can’t stop smiling. Last month I stopped the injections and when I had the news [...]

improvement, money, Support Network

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The trouble I am faced with right now is that since mama (Zanele) who is also on treatment left us to be cared for by my grandmother, I have no-one to help me around the home because I am the eldest, so I have to do all the thinking about what is to be eaten [...]

Family, food, hope, money, work

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It feels like forever that I have been on the MDR-TB treatment and although I still feel weak it is no longer as bad as it was at the beginning. Last month I was told that the result of one of my sputum samples came back negative and that made me happy. I am currently [...]

pills, results, Side effects, tests, treatment

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The good news or the best thing that has happened over the last month is that I have stopped vomiting. I was really starting to think that it was going to kill me. I also have put on a little bit of weight and it puts a smile on my face when people tell me [...]

food, love, money, Side effects, Support Network, vomiting

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Colisile: I was first found to have TB in 2008. I took tablets for six months and was told that I was fine and stopped the treatment. In 2010 I fell sick again with the same symptoms I had had in 2008. I went to Edwaleni Clinic and was found to have TB again. I [...]

Family, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, MDR-TB, Side effects, Swaziland, TB, Transportation

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