After 13 months on the cocktail of drugs, I started to get sick with flu like symptoms. One time was admitted to hospital for 10 days this year in May. NOBODY would listen to me about how the drugs were making me sick. Not even the ID doctor who put me on them. I came home and stopped taking them. Demanded a phone conference with the ID doctor instead of office visit, as I was too weak to go. He was VERY RUDE to me. Told me to start taking the drugs individually on different days to find out which one was the problem. On June 8th, I took the Rifampin. 2 1/2 hour later, I had the shakes and fever with Oxygen level of 79 and elevated heart rate. 911 was called. They started working on me and transported me to a different hospital. Doctors at this hospital have pulled me off all of the drugs. They said the MAC is gone and there is no need for them and they will monitor me for it. The other ID doctor had told me in February the MAC was gone, but wanted to leave me on the drugs until August. Long story short, Doctors need to listen to their patients and take what they say seriously. That ID doctor could have killed me.

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