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Is treatment for Mac and airway clearance really necessary
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 17, 2025 | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
I wonder what it is about AC that you dislike so much? Nebulizing with saline and Airway Clearance is recommended by all BE and MAC experts as being extremely important. Letting things take their course would be so much more unpleasant than nebulizing and AC. Perhaps you can find ways to make it more tolerable? I am 74 and I nebulize twice a day with saline and I used the Aerobika and postural drainage. For me what really helps is to watch TV (something attention grabbing like a good movie or series) while I nebulize. I wear headphones so I can hear the TV over the compressor. I just relax and surrender to the procedure and the time it takes. Since it makes a huge difference in getting up the suffocating mucus, I look forward to it. If I were you I would find some ways to make it tolerable or even enjoyable??
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I find doing the aerobic a very tough because I order to get mucus out. I have to breathe in very hard and hold it and then expel also very intensely. I do 5 to 6 sets of 20 each and by the time I’m done I am totally exhausted, even if I’m watching TV or on my iPad never left. Thank you for your Em
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It’s not really boredom that I have with airway clearance, but I find it very exhausting particularly the aerobicA
I can’t get much mucus up at all unless I do six rounds of 10 breathing out really really hard. That makes me incredibly exhausted for the rest of the day and then I do it again at night.
I’m just thinking of the cost benefit at my age
Thank you so much for your thoughts I will Reconsider