Hi everyone!
i posted this in another thread that went more in depth about TB medical follow up, but have now seen that thread is under a different class of sponsorship - sorry, I’m a newbie!
I hope you can all help me. we’re in a tough situation and very worried.
I’m sponsoring my husband and he completed his medical on March 5th. The doctor requested follow up because of nodules on the chest x-ray.
We are about to do our third sputum test. the first round of tests, my husband was told by the diagnostic center to keep one sample and it ruined all three days of samples and doctor wouldn’t accept it. Second time, my husband couldn’t produce enough sputum and the doctor ruled it inconclusive because he said it came from my husbands mouth and not his lungs.
My husband is healthy and in his 30s - he has no sputum to cough up! he has never had TB and his blood test shows no TB.
please, we are desperate. what can we do to force him to have sputum to cough up? the doctor says we have no other option than a sputum test and we are at our wits end.
we have spent $1000 on these medical tests so far and just received a letter from CIC that they need our medical info no later than 5/20. the doctor won’t write to them to request an extension and said we have to.
has anyone been through something like this before?
i posted this in another thread that went more in depth about TB medical follow up, but have now seen that thread is under a different class of sponsorship - sorry, I’m a newbie!
I hope you can all help me. we’re in a tough situation and very worried.
I’m sponsoring my husband and he completed his medical on March 5th. The doctor requested follow up because of nodules on the chest x-ray.
We are about to do our third sputum test. the first round of tests, my husband was told by the diagnostic center to keep one sample and it ruined all three days of samples and doctor wouldn’t accept it. Second time, my husband couldn’t produce enough sputum and the doctor ruled it inconclusive because he said it came from my husbands mouth and not his lungs.
My husband is healthy and in his 30s - he has no sputum to cough up! he has never had TB and his blood test shows no TB.
please, we are desperate. what can we do to force him to have sputum to cough up? the doctor says we have no other option than a sputum test and we are at our wits end.
we have spent $1000 on these medical tests so far and just received a letter from CIC that they need our medical info no later than 5/20. the doctor won’t write to them to request an extension and said we have to.
has anyone been through something like this before?