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Treatment Guidance Please...Bronchiectasis/Asthma/Reflux

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 13 7:29pm | Replies (34)
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Stiolta relaxes the airway and is used primarily in COPd patients. I was started on that by the first pulmonologist I saw once the CT with trees in bud , etc were found. I actually developed bronchiectasis while I was on it. That doc went on medical leave prompting my Mayo visit. The doc there said it was primarily for COPD and switched me to Advair (have mild asthma) once MAC cultures were negative.
Have you contacted your doc and had a sputum culture since the increased production. Is it discolored?

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daffy1952 | @daffy1952 | Aug 6 11:56am

Thank you for your reply!
I am scheduled to go to a new pulmonologist in October, and they will more than likely ask for a sputum culture. Currently my sputum is thick and yellow early morning but it clears up by mid morning. It's then no longer thick, the color changes to almost clear, but it keeps coming. On some days, I can cough up sputum in the morning and go the rest of the day with no coughing (those days are rare) also, coughing appears to get worse after I eat (at any time).

I was seeing a doctor at the Vanderbilt Medical center for the past five or six years. There, once a year I would have a CT Scan to check my lung nodules, and the amount of mucus. Because they were pulmonary surgeons, and the nodules were non-cancerous, they suggested that I see another pulmonologist to keep an eye on my condition. That is why I have made an appointment to see a new doctor.
I never been prescribed medication for my condition.

Another note, I recently had Covid. I'm sure that didn't help my situation.
I appreciate your comments.

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