I had my medical examination done which showed apex shadowing of the lung.
I've never had TB; had an xray last year that came back fine; haven't traveled at all in 5 years; avoid sick people; had a handful of colds in 10 years; and have no cough or any other symptoms.
I'm still waiting for a response after I applied for my visa.
I was informed of the xray abnormality by the approved panel physician that gives you the medical tests for sending off to immigration.
Here's what I'm wondering:
I'm pretty certain I don't have TB, so it might be a lingering chest infection (with no symptoms I guess). So what I'm wondering is whether it's typically beneficial to see a family doctor and get medication like antiobiotics to get rid of it. Then, when immigration does get back to me and makes me take further tests, I won't have any type of infection at all.
My worry is immigration might give me a test, make me wait months, tell me its some sort of infection, and only then give me medication to get rid of it, which I will then have to take for weeks or months before I can then take another test to see that the medication worked.
On the other hand, if I see my doctor and get rid of whatever it might be before I take any test from immigration it will be negative.
However, I also wonder if being on some sort of medication before or during an immigration test might be bad; perhaps antiobiotics throw off their testing. Or maybe they only want me to take the medication they prescribe me.
I have basically no idea how to approach this and all I am trying to do is minimize delays as much as possible.
I've never had TB; had an xray last year that came back fine; haven't traveled at all in 5 years; avoid sick people; had a handful of colds in 10 years; and have no cough or any other symptoms.
I'm still waiting for a response after I applied for my visa.
I was informed of the xray abnormality by the approved panel physician that gives you the medical tests for sending off to immigration.
Here's what I'm wondering:
I'm pretty certain I don't have TB, so it might be a lingering chest infection (with no symptoms I guess). So what I'm wondering is whether it's typically beneficial to see a family doctor and get medication like antiobiotics to get rid of it. Then, when immigration does get back to me and makes me take further tests, I won't have any type of infection at all.
My worry is immigration might give me a test, make me wait months, tell me its some sort of infection, and only then give me medication to get rid of it, which I will then have to take for weeks or months before I can then take another test to see that the medication worked.
On the other hand, if I see my doctor and get rid of whatever it might be before I take any test from immigration it will be negative.
However, I also wonder if being on some sort of medication before or during an immigration test might be bad; perhaps antiobiotics throw off their testing. Or maybe they only want me to take the medication they prescribe me.
I have basically no idea how to approach this and all I am trying to do is minimize delays as much as possible.