Had a blood transfusion now I feel like I might have a disease?
I got a blood transfusion in Mexico after getting a tummy tuck procedure. Now I keep obsessing the thought of the blood not being clean and I now have a a disease. It's 2 months, and I feel fine and everything is good for the most part... sometimes the thoughts come back up and I start to feel ill. I went...
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Julie D. say: Ask your Doctor to be tested for Hep C. You can even have this done at your local Health Department for free.
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say: Dead man walking.
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William say: You'll be fine until that little guy Pedro starts trying to get out. Mexico has perfected a miniaturization technology that temporary shrinks people to microscopic dimensions so they can be smuggled into the US through blood injections.
Eventually it wears off and they get full-size again, possibly causing fatal ruptures to the host body.
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poldi2 say: You start to feel ill because you are telling yourself you have a disease.
If you have a disease, it would manifest with some real symptoms, but since you don't list any symptoms the only logical conclusion is you don't have a disease.
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Funnelweb say: All blood would be screened for known infectious illness in Mexico as it is in English-speaking countries. However the rate of altruistic blood donation (blood given freely) is low, and many donors are paid money. So some may not tell the truth about their recent sexual or intravenous drug practices. Meaning there is a very small chance of contracting an illness such as hepatitis of HIV,
Hepatitis B & C are often curable these days. If you were vaccinated against Hepatitis B your chance of catching it is low. HIV is also very treatable, and many people who are infected can be treated so that the virus cannot be detected in the bloodstream, and they can remain this way for years. HIV is a chronic disease, no longer a fatal disease as long as it is treated.
So your chance of having caught something is very low indeed, and in the unlikely event that you have caught something you're much better to know and to get treatment.
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Rebecca say: A CBC does not check for diseases. It is a Complete Blood Count and it only measures blood cells.
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ngeij say: dlebfame
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