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Symptoms
The normal symptoms of TB in the lungs (often called pulmonary TB) are a cough that won't go away, which produces phlegm or mucus and can be bloody. Weight loss, chills and fevers followed by sweats, fatigue, night sweats, and occasionally, pain in the chest are also common symptoms of TB. Other diseases that can affect people with HIV also cause similar symptoms.
In HIV-positive people with very severe immune damage, TB can spread from the lungs into any part of the body but especially the lymph nodes, causing them to swell, or into the stomach, causing severe diarrhoea, or into the liver, causing inflammation, or into the brain, causing meningitis with symptoms of confusion, loss of vision and paralysis.