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MAC/ Bronchiectasis and guidance on vaccine maintenance?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 7, 2025 | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
We had a long conversation with my daughter who is a former ER nurse and a Master in Nursing student. Her PT job while in school is as a pharmacy nurse, where she does med counseling and vaccinations.
She is still in close touch with her former colleagues, and would like everyone to know that they are telling her RSV is no joke - people can get VERY sick from it. Especially those with lung conditions.
I had Covid last year, and it was no fun - not a candidate for Paxlovid so I had to push through and ended up with an exacerbation. When I told my pulmonologist I didn't know if the vaccine was worth it she asked "Who can tell us how sick you might have been without it?"
My daughter said the medical director for their pharmacy and the ID docs at her old hospital recommend that people consider getting a different Covid vaccine than their "usual" - we will be getting Novavax (non-MRNA) this year.
We will have the Covid & hi-dose flu vaccine before we take off traveling in September. The jury is still out on whether we need an RSV "booster" - neither my daughter nor my doc has the answer yet.
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Does alternating between Moderna and Pfizer count?
RSV is no joke. Several years ago my sister-in-law was very unlucky and had RSV and flu at the same time and ended up on a ventilator for several days. My bros and I got the RSV vaccine and get flu vaccines religiously.
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So confusing.
I have had the first two Covid vaccines given in 2021.
No flu, pneumonia, exacerbation, no RSV, no cold etc. in recent years nor for several years or decades.
Yes to Covid in Feb. 2024 after going to Pulmonary Rehab at local hospital facility. I came down with Covid after three half hour sessions in the facility. No one in the rehab facility wore a mask and I was concerned but thought I guess they know what they are doing, it's a hospital facility. The rehab sessions was the only thing I did differently since learning I had BE and our living with the Covid outbreaks.
No Covid or any other type of illness (RSV, flu, cold etc.) since Feb. of 2024.
I wear a mask all the time when out in public. Get a bit nervous the few times I have gone out to a restaurant. I try to position myself away from people...distance myself....... especially with having to take the mask off, of course. I have to assume the mask, N95 by 3M, is helping.
The last vaccines I had were the RSV and shingles vaccines, that's it. I will get the RSV again this October.
Also, when I had Covid I only took the Paxlovid for a day or two because I felt better within twenty four hours after having started it.
I am thankful that I have felt fine for years which is great due to obviously having had BE since 2022 or earlier....very possibly had BE since 2015 when I was told I had large lungs after an Xray before hip replacement and at that time I was already needing to clear my throat of a green 'mucus plug' every so often during a week's period.
This goes to show us, again, that we are all different due to multiple factors.
Barbara