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I’m curious how AAS may affect a tuberculosis test and can’t find anything in google. I had a TB test and when I went back to have the doc interpret the results based on the reaction (or lack thereof) on my skin, I got a curious reaction from him. I know what a positive test is supposed to look like (red rash of at least a certain diameter). Mine was nothing like it: just a tiny bit of redness which seemed well below the threshold and could be explained by the prick and injection itself (looked similar to a subcutaneous hcg shot). I was expecting a quick “you’re good”. But when the doc saw it, he started asking me if I’m taking steroids. I assumed he mean’t corticosteroids since we’re talking about rashes. I told him no corticosteroids and he brushed it off and kept pressing me on whether I’m taking anabolic steroids. I told him no (which is true right now) and he still pressed. He seemed to get frustrated or annoyed as he kept pressing the issue and I started to feel interrogated. I got uncomfortable and told him I already answered him and told him that clearly the reaction did not meet the threshold for a positive read and even put a pic on my phone of a positive reaction next to mine to show how different it looked. Eventually he forced me to go get my lungs xrayed to have a full screen, which he wouldn’t do for a negative test. Given that my reaction was barely noticeable and in view of his line of questioning I felt he ordered the full screen to fuck with me (and that he did as I wasted my whole day on this only to be told i was right). Now I’m wondering whether the doc had a reasonable basis to be worried about AAS skewing the results or whether he just allowed a negative personal view of AAS affect his judgment and his interaction with me.
This was not my regular doc btw. I had never seen that doc before. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
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This was not my regular doc btw. I had never seen that doc before. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
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