Comment Blood chemistry changed by TB medication (Score 1) 183
In February 2000 at 20 years old I was diagnosed with a lung infection called Mycobacterium Kansasii. It is in the family of Tuberculosis and treated with a nearly identical pharmaceutical regimen.
I took:
Isoniazid:
myambutol
rifadin (turns your urine orange)
vitamin B 12 (for liver health)
Pyrazinamide for about a month until they ruled out Active TB.
I was on this regimen for 18 months, a while after I was declared cured myself, my Dad and my Brother walked to a local park to watch a total lunar eclipse. My brother and Dad ended up leaving early because they were getting bit so bad but I could walk into a cloud of mosquitos and they would disperse and I did not get bitten a single time.
Fast forward to now over a decade after being off of these meds and I might get 4 mosquito bites in an entire summer.
I havent ever found documented cases from other people where this happened, but the doctor who diagnosed and treated me said he had heard it in passing a few times.