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Length of Time on Antibiotic Regimen

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The guidelines say that treatment should be continued for one year of negative cultures
There is some evidence that treatment for 18 months reduces the risk of relapse and that is what I did. No Mac for three years and off treatment two years next April.
Doing well but much more sputum in last two years and now colonized with Staph aureus. I do sometimes wonder about whether this is just the progression of bronchiectasis or worsened by 4 years of antibiotics including 20 months of Arikayce

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I, too, wonder about the ill effects of being on so many antibiotics for such a long period of time. Given the comments on this page, I'm beginning to think the year of treatment that my pulmonologist initially mentioned is actually a lowball estimate. It's disheartening, especially since I'm someone who used to enjoy having to take almost no meds her whole life. But dealing with real answers, however disheartening, has felt better than dealing with false hopes.