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How much mucus are you clearing with each nebulising/airways clearance
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: May 20 5:01pm | Replies (34)Comment receiving replies
Has your doctor mentioned a biologic yet? And have you tried singular? It helped my asthma a lot but gave me terrible body aches so I had to stop it (rare side effect). Spiriva dried up mucus way too much making airway clearance next to impossible. Now I take albuterol inhaler before clearance and symbicort twice a day. An allegra only before allergy shot, which is too drying to chest also. No easy answers.
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Thank you so much. I probably need to try again to find a GP (Australia) who has more experience in airways disease. Difficult to find a good reliable person.
I am not sure to what degree asthma plays into my symptoms but the treatments I used to be on (Symbicort) didn't seem to do anything for my cough which was my principal complaint...and this seems to be connected to mucus. So I was often non compliant with Symbicort.
However since stopping the PPIs (very bad reflux and hiatus hernia) and Spiriva and taking on the LM protocol I am producing sooo much mucus. Have also been diagnosed with MAC recently. The mucus production is becoming worse still.
I have a specialist appointment this month so will see what they recommend. However i am concerned by using drugs with bad side effects.
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I can't take singular because I also have an autoimmune disease and Singular can cause Churg Straus Syndrome (sp?) which is a similar autoimmune disease. I am not going to take any biologics because I am afraid of them and they are in you for considerable time plus my recent blood work did not show high eosinophils or high IGE. When I am desperate 25 mg benedryl will help for about 4 hours and doesn't make me sleepy or dry things up too much. Zytec etc doesn't work at all. I use azelastine in my nose (also for allergy shots in the past ) every day but no idea if it helps or not but I kind of think it helps with post nasal drip. I use Breo once a day. Today was one of those quiet days and I feel less short of breath since I took a vacation from the sodium chloride. But who knows if that is a coincidence or not. Sorting this out has been and still is hopeless!