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Barbara, I don't know, and I rather doubt, that the MAC meds treated the aspergillus infection. Maybe the doctors didn't treat it because it wasn't very severe or because they wanted to treat the MAC first or something else, who knows? I see my local ID doc in a month and I'll ask him to clarify.
I don't know how common it is to have the fungal and the MAC infection concurrently, but I certainly did.
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Hi I'm new here and I have BE, mac, aspergillosis and abpa. My ID is treating both at the same time. Most of my side effects are from vfend. I only do ethambutol and azithromiacin, I couldn't tolerate any rif drugs. My ID prescribed Arikayce but I am waiting until I can complete the 10 day program at NJH in June. I live in California, but I feel like it's worth the time etc to get answers specific to my situation.
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I too often failed to ask the doctors, why this, why that etc. , at the time they are saying what they want me to do or why they said what they said. Hope I get better 'on my feet' with that aspect of working with doctors now that for the first time in my life, these last couple of years, I have had to visit and converse with doctors, the professionals who are not necessarily 'teachers,' with my first chronic health problem.
Barbara