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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Apr 9, 2025 | Replies (18)

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@amt005 Hello, and welcome to our supportive community. Based on your description of your current medical condition, you appear to meet the treatment protocols for watchful waiting instead of starting the antibiotics.
Have you doctors mentioned airway clearance as one component of treating your NTM?

Here are the current guidelines for treating NTM infections. Pages nine and eleven may be especially helpful in deciding what your next steps might be. Page 24 talks about other ways of staying healthy.

The other thing to consider, based on treatment guidelines, is that your doctor may not be experienced in treating NTM, because they are discussing daily treatment, which is usually reserved for severe symptoms or failure to convert within 6 months. Is it possible to find a Bronchiectasis or NTM specialist in Singapore?

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Replies to "@amt005 Hello, and welcome to our supportive community. Based on your description of your current medical..."

Thank you. The past 6 months were watch and see but I don’t believe she liked the changes in the high res CT. Although she has not been particularly clear on this (changes) nor has my doctor outlined a way forward but she did say at one point the medication would be daily. I am seeking access to a doctor in my home country (Australia) and will likely need to manage a collaboration of AU/ SG doctors if the remaining tests are conclusive. Coincidentally (?) my elderly mother was diagnosed during Covid and commenced treatment last year.