Seven days a week?!!! That had to have taken some adjustment. I myself look forward to the weekends, when I feel like my body has some recovery time. If I don't start improving, though, I half-expect I might be facing 7 days a week as well. When I was first diagnosed last spring, I barely had a dry cough. But as time as passed, despite the antibiotics, the cough has increased (especially when I first get up in the morning), and I have occasional shortness of breath. Like you, neither is debilitating, just not what I expected after six months of treatment. I'm so glad I found this site. Up to now, I've felt like I was in a MAC bubble. So, I appreciate your response very much.

I don't have much to cough up. I mostly just clear my throat. I have never shown fluids in the lungs or bronchial tubes, so it is probably a good sign you're not feeling like you have mucus and don't cough anything up. Once you experience a long illness, like my asthma, you find you can pinpoint every pain, movement, or difference in your body and know exactly what it can be or at least describe it enough that your doctor can most accurately make a diagnosis from it.

I have lost some weight, which is bad because I was at my BMI exactly. I lost it from the active infection I am having now, not the MAC (My regular doctor was surprised I wasn't wasting away when he first saw me after the diagnosis. I went down 8 lbs. and found myself back at my lowest weight. I got to this weight before because I spent almost a month in the hospital with blocked intestines. My insurance wouldn't transfer me to the hospital my surgeon was at because they couldn't get it wrapped around their brains that I was in a brand new hospital where I was the first to be admitted, and they didn't have someone who could do the surgery because I had gastric bypass. My surgeon said I had 2 days at the most to live when I got to him.