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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (29)
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Thank you, Sue. It was last August I saw specialist.
I have been using 6% hypertonic after salbutamol. The specialists over years have complained that I am non compliant with their steroids for asthma. I did recommence Symbicort some months back in order to retry it. It seems to help if I am doing extreme exercise, but other than that I can't see any benefits for my Bx and since I don't notice my asthma, once again I have stopped it.
Specialists seemed to think mucus volume caused by other than my mild Bx.
2 doses of Lignosis now and I can feel the difference! However it is very expensive.
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Have you been tested for GERD and hiatal hernia?
Another thought- maybe your routine is causing some of the mucus production. Have you considered stopping the salbutamol neb and just doing the Symbicort inhaler or its generic version? I found Salbutamol very irritating to my lungs. I switched to Levalbuterol, first nebbed then inhaled and it was better, but now have dropped that for Symbicort- even better. Also cuts neb time by half. Since you are negative for MAC maybe even try 3% saline to calm things down.