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Length of Time on Antibiotic Regimen
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I take the big 3, 7 days a week. It took me a little over a month to adjust to them. I have been on them for 4 months. I can't cough anything up so I'm sure another bronchoscopy is in my future. I had a fungus that I believe a 10 day antibiotic treatment cured. I'm being treated for 3 ntm. I'm short of breath but I can do all my daily stuff. I still get fatigue but it's significantly reduced. Someone said to make sure everything you eat or drink has calories. I'm 5 pounds above my minimum weight. I eat a lot of food. But I'm also diabetic, so I have to be careful. I don't feel like I have mucus in my lungs. I really can't cough anything up. Oh, I also have bronchitisas. I'm 71. All of this started after I got covid. I went a year before I started treatment.
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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.