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Met with pulmonary recently who reiterated the importance of twice a day airway clearance in mild+ bronchiectasis. The goal is to make it a habit so it's not optional. They also stressed that exercise does not replace actual airway clearance. Next time I'm in I will ask for reasoning behind 2x day. I suspect it has to do with functioning of the diseased lung; pockets fill up approx. every 12 hours and lungs benefit from clearing out those pockets and behave more like normal in between clearances.

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I gave e this answer on another discussion yesterday- different doctors, different protocols. Both my pulmonologist and Dr Pamela McShane, UT at Tyler accept exercise as an alternative to other airway clearance methods AS LONG AS EFFECTIVELY MINIMIZING OR ELIMINATING EXACERBATION and the CT is stable or improving. In other words, I only do other methods if I can't exercise or am ill. This kept me exacerbation-free for 22 months, even when I got Covid in September and cared for sick grandsons in October.