(I have not been on this med, I had to fill in the stars to post.) After my 3 year old had a positive reaction to his TB test, our entire family was tested, and I also was positive. His pediatrician prescribed a 9 mo. treatment with this med., and so far, thank God, no bad side effects. She is monitoring his white cell count and liver enzymes through regular blood tests. My doctor, however, advised me to simply have the chest xray, which came back clear, and to wait another year to have another xray. She feels that the risks of the med, due to my age, far outweigh the benefits, and that I am no in danger of it becoming active TB. I trust her judgement and pray it will stay inactive. Hope this helps...

I have latent TB and decided to take the meds as I have niece with leukemia and has recently had a transplant. I did not want to inadvertently infect her so I have been taking this for almost 6 months. After experiencing fatigue and itching when taking every night, my doc had me take it every other night. That helped the fatigue and the itching went away after a few weeks. The one thing that I found out from my pharmacist is to avoid pineapple and raisins. they contain a certain ingredient that counter-acts the meds. Also to avoid ibuprofens and tylenol to reduce the risk of liver problems

my doctor told me i had to take this medicine for 6 months..i took it for one month, every nite right before bedtime i'd take one pill, about 2/3hrs. later i'm up with severe stomach cramps..i also noticed at times when reading or watching t.v. my eyes would get watery and couldn't see very clear..after 30days, i asked my doctor to see if there was any way he could lower the dosage or an alternative other than this pill/medicine, he told me no. great! i told him then i have no choice but to stop this medicine 30days of severe stomach cramps every night like clock work was enough for me! it was killing me slowly! i don't like the idea that i have this tb/inactive..but there has to be another form of medicine, i've read up on this recently and i can't believe all the side effects it has, i also recently had blood work done and my doctor tells me that my white blood count is 13 when it should be 10..hello...from what i read this medicine can do that i'm so confused, i felt so much better before getting on this medicine and now other things can be happening to my body, who knows if my doctor knows what he's doing! i just want to know if there is another form of medicine with much much less side effects than this one.

i only comment with stars because it requires it i have taken this treatment for only one week and from the begginning to now i suffer severe headaches, continued loss of appetite, extreme tiredness/fatigue is there anything to counter act this it sure isn't worth going through for a preventitive. at this rate i'd rather treat if it ever became active

I have been taking Isoniazid for two weeks now. My joints are painful and I am worried about lupus, it is one of the side effects of this drug. My sister has lupus now that she got from one of her heart medications. I am going to press my Dr for a QuantiFERON-TB Gold blood test before I will continue with this treatment. My sister has undergone two hip replacements and is always off of work because of the lupus. I had the BCG vaccine as a child and am wondering if that is the cause of my positive skin test. My chest xray is clear.

Health care worker. Have Latent TB. (Had a positive TB reading. Chest x-rays are clear, blood work normal. Will get results from sputum test in a few more weeks. So obviously, I came in contact with someone who had active TB. God knows who or when. Been on the medication 1 month. Can't sit in one spot (computer) too long and have to keep moving otherwise my finger tips and feet start to tingle.(take Vitamin B-6 faithfully) I'm Lucky because all my life my menstral cycle use to come like clock work. I ccould log it's arrival down to the hour, but his month it never came. I am so bloated and huge. My clothes won't fit around my waste anymore and my rings won't make it past my knuckles. I am NOT pregnant, unless I'm the Virgin Mary. I'm not very thrilled using safety pins to tie my jeans together at the waiste and I feel very irritable. Actually, more than irritable. I feel like smacking people around. I don't want to take this anymore. Maybe I have a kidney infection. Going to gynocologist next. TB, whether LATENT, OR ACTIVE... JUST SUCKS!!!

so i have been on this drug for a week and i was told to look out for nerve related problems. After two days i felt a wierd pain in my foot by my toes. I thought nothing of it, and thought i stepped on it wrong. Now on the seventh day the pain has increases and is severe. I have read the reviews and no one has commented on the nerve damage possibility, which if it occurs, i was told it could be permanent.