Question on St. Luke's Medical Exam in Manila

[Bob_B 26]

 My fiancee and I have received our NOA-2 and awaiting mailing of paperwork from NVC. I have sent 2 email queries about our case number, with no response yet. Our NOA-2 date was 4/4. My fiancee had an issue with getting her passport, so she is pushed out to June 6th to pick hers up. We have been working around that as best we can. Now an issue has come up that could really set us back (I think). We're both smokers who intend to quit when we are together, and tonight she told me that she had TB in 1994 but was cured of it.

 My question is: would this show up on a routine x-ray? and if it does and she explains she recovered from TB in 1994, is she likely to have to submit to a sputum test during her medical exam? And if so, is it true that test takes up to 2 months to get results from?

[Redheadguy03 505]

6 hours ago, Bob_B said:

 My fiancee and I have received our NOA-2 and awaiting mailing of paperwork from NVC. I have sent 2 email queries about our case number, with no response yet. Our NOA-2 date was 4/4. My fiancee had an issue with getting her passport, so she is pushed out to June 6th to pick hers up. We have been working around that as best we can. Now an issue has come up that could really set us back (I think). We're both smokers who intend to quit when we are together, and tonight she told me that she had TB in 1994 but was cured of it.

 My question is: would this show up on a routine x-ray? and if it does and she explains she recovered from TB in 1994, is she likely to have to submit to a sputum test during her medical exam? And if so, is it true that test takes up to 2 months to get results from?

Would it show up? It's entirely possible. Any kind of scarring from it could show up which would probably require a sputum test. Yes it takes 60 days to get the results of the sputum test. 

 

Explaining to them won't do you any good. If they say you have to get it done you have to it's not negotiable and they won't care about your reasons. 

 

Now you might get lucky and have no issues on the xray at all, however it's definitely a toss up. Just be prepared in case it does happen and you have to wait. (I know it sucks I'm dreading the medical part for that very reason.) 

[Bob_B 26]

2 hours ago, Redheadguy03 said:

Would it show up? It's entirely possible. Any kind of scarring from it could show up which would probably require a sputum test. Yes it takes 60 days to get the results of the sputum test. 

 

Explaining to them won't do you any good. If they say you have to get it done you have to it's not negotiable and they won't care about your reasons. 

 

Now you might get lucky and have no issues on the xray at all, however it's definitely a toss up. Just be prepared in case it does happen and you have to wait. (I know it sucks I'm dreading the medical part for that very reason.) 

I'm banking on the scar tissue showing up. She has decided to take matters into her own hands and get her own chest x-ray to take to her exam at St. Luke's. She has one done annually to ensure the TB is not returning. It was a long time ago she had the illness: 1994.

 

 Thanks, Red, for the empathy.

[Redheadguy03 505]

1 hour ago, Bob_B said:

I'm banking on the scar tissue showing up. She has decided to take matters into her own hands and get her own chest x-ray to take to her exam at St. Luke's. She has one done annually to ensure the TB is not returning. It was a long time ago she had the illness: 1994.

 

 Thanks, Red, for the empathy.

They can completely disregard those xrays. They only care about their own results.

Their are tons of stories about Saint lukes having people do sputum tests even though they have proof of no tb from other hospitals. It's part of the reason I'm nervous about my fiance doing the medical and she's never even had TB before.