Hi Ed! Thank you for posting. Do I understand you that you will not be taking the Big 3 Antibiotics but will follow a plan? I think that is what I will do as well. I am with UCLA and I will see the pulmonologist for the first time on June 12. I have BE and MAC and showed up at the ER because I hocked up a lot of blood from my lungs in a grocery store parking lot! They ruled out TB and then laid this on me. I have lost a lot of my hearing and I don't want to take azithromycin because it is ototoxic. My hearing doc said what I would lose would not come back esp. with the degree of loss I already have. Two websites I found very helpful were bronchiectasis.com.au which is about both BE and MAC. and type inAirway Clearance, Pamela j. McShane, MD. It is a slide show out of Chicago, I believe. It's a little fuzzy but very good insight in airway clearance. Am not sure to whom this is going, but here goes. Thank you for your insights. Be well! Nancy