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When were your sputum cultures done? You had at least three done, each a week apart, and two were positive? If the sputum samples were 7 months ago like your last CT I myself would want to repeat them. I have read that you can have MAC without lung damage and I believe I have read some members here comment on having little to no damage on CT. But given the symptoms you are describing, to a novice like myself, that seems curious, and I understand your confusion. I am asymptomatic but my CT’s show quite a bit of damage. And that seems strange to me also. My infection disease doctor says it’s like back pain - the CT is not an accurate barometer for clinical symptoms. Hopefully you can find an NTM expert near you to guide you on this confusing and challenging path.
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Hello. My cultures were done like 2 months ago and had 2 positives out of 3.
My pulmonologist does somewhat have experience treating mac infection as I live in Hawaii. He himself was shocked too that my ct is clean, despite my symptoms getting worse since my first ct. He was for sure expecting to see something on 2nd ct. But it was clean. Now he wants to do a broncoscopy.
Pulmonologist wants me to start treatment. I'm torn.
Seems like your case is opposite of mine. No symptoms but lot of damage on your ct. Hope your treatment goes well.