Had solid confirmation from sputum tests by pulmonolgist who diagnosed MAC Lung disease. He referred me to an infectious and contagious specialist who offered me the extensive antibiotics treatment but informed me of the dangers of this treatment and I decided against taking the only treatment available for MAC Lung disease. My PCP recommended that I take the treatment but I believed that the treatment was worse than the disease, therefore, I did not do the antibiotics treat. I continued to see that same pulmonolgist for almost 4 years, until he left for employment elsewhere. He referred me to another pulmonolgist, since he was leaving.
I saw the pulmonolgist he referred me to once and he retired. My next routine appointment, I saw a different doctor and she did the most thorough of all my records and she ordered more sputum cultures because my condition was not in line with someone who had MAC Lung disease for 4 years. The repeat sputum cultures didn't show the bacteria that had previously been found on sputum cultures. So, I was shocked by these results but extremely happy.
I haven't been able to see a pulmonolgist since this discovery but will be seeing a different pulmonolgist next month.
I was just curious to know if this had happened to others.