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Life Expectancy with cavitary MAC

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 4 7:25pm | Replies (68)

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4 to 5 weeks is a long treatment for IV. You may have done that at home instead of hospital. If they try another round shortly after the previous round that would surprise me. I do not know how anyone could tolerate that much without side effects. It seems like many people with Pseudo try the IV route without enough or any help. Then they end up with inhaled and oral. You might knock it back with your current treatment (hope so) but very doubtful you can "get rid of it". I had a similar experience as you with IV for Pseudo but only tried IV one time so far and only for 11 days. My improvement only lasted one week after the IV! And the improvement was dramatic during the IV.

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They put a PICC line in my arm and I changed it weekly or every 8 hrs. The IVs were probably a 3-4 weeks apart. I really didn’t have side effects as I always take probiotics. I am now back to orals and inhalation