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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Jun 4 8:41pm | Replies (13)

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@lilianna

To continue my story. The pulmonologist emailed me that chest X-ray does not show changes so the flare up is not from aspergilus- it would show as aspergilus pneumonia and then my symptoms would be much more severe. So I stay on levaquin and do the airway clearing and nebulizing and wait for better. I did not have a chance to ask what is “ severe symptoms”from aspergilus because it was just an email and actually her nurse emails me always on her behalf. So if your aspergilus was treated, what exactly symptoms did you have. I am so new to the flare ups. I think I don’t even know how to recognize one.

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I had Aspergillus diagnosed a few years ago through sputum sample. At that time I knew I had Bronchiectasis but not MAC. I was sick with the same symptoms as a flare-up… cough, fever, fatigue. However, I am a rare bird who doesn’t produce sputum. I can only produce when I am sick.
When labs came back with Aspergillus, doc but me on low dose of prednisone for 3 months. That was it. I still show antibodies in my blood work for it to this day.
Hope this helps! Dee