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I'm not having any chest tightness or irritation. No sore throat or coughing, other than the initial coughs with my first couple inhalations from the eRapid.

I have no bronchiectasis specialist where I live, unfortunately. The pulmonary specialist I was assigned monitors granulomas and nodules, which I also have (and am not particularly worried about). She warned me not to do nasal lavage more than a couple times a day; "God gives us mucus for a reason," she said. She knows little about bronchiectasis, and hadn't even heard of an Aerobika before. While she approves of me nebbing 7% saline 2x daily, it's something I learned from forums, not from her.

I feel like I got so "clean" yesterday I might be encouraging my lungs to make more mucus. Like...dried myself out a bit. Am I thus stimulating my lungs to make even more mucus to make up for the loss? I have no idea, and I expect my specialist has even less of an idea because this really isn't her department.

For a while, though, I'm going to see how I feel just nebbing once a day with the eRapid instead of twice, unless I feel some congestion.

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After listening to my saga of how long I take to clear my airways, my pulmonologist suggested I set a timer for a certain amount of time and not exceed it. I've haven't done that as I seem to get interrupted here and there, but I have concentrated on decreasing my active huff coughing time. I'd be happy if I could get the routine done in 30 minutes (including neb time). I have not figured out if this is realistic yet.

My usual signal to stop airway clearance is when the gunk starts to lighten and there is less of it. Every day is different, and sometimes I spend abut 45 minutes. I am hard pressed to think that over-doing the clearance will result in our lungs producing more mucus. It's the gunk we try to get out not the clear mucus.