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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: May 28 3:28pm | Replies (169)

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I’ve been on Brinsupri for a month. About a week ago I started having what my Pulmonologist has said is an exacerbation. Now I had bloodwork, sputum, & chest x-ray done within the week and they’ve all but ruled out any infection. I don’t think it has anything to do with the Brinsupri, but I’ve had exacerbations before but this time I had the usual symptoms plus other ones I’ve never had during an exacerbation. Fever (1 day only) vomiting, & body aches. The xtra symptoms were only 1 day also. I was put on Levaquin and Prednisone taper 9/28, still having hard time coughing up mucus though. I attribute some of that to my other lung disease Pulmonary Fibrosis, which doesn’t allow me to fully expand my lungs to get a lot of air behind the mucus to help cough out. In the past 2 years I looked back in my records and seem to have exacerbations every spring & fall, which leads me to believe it is environmental triggers. Although I must add I always wonder what and why. Make sense? I’m very glad some and seems like most are having good success so far, and hopefully more of us will too. In the meantime I will stay the course and do what the Dr.s tell me. And I’ll be curious to see how it goes after my exacerbation passes.🤞. God bless us all.

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@spider109 I read this a few days ago, but am not on it and have nothing helpful to add. I have thought of you and wondered how you are doing with this current exacerbation. Are you still thinking it's your seasonal flare or do you think it's related to drug?

With your seasonal pattern, it\ would certainly make one wonder what the trigger for exacerbations is. Have you had allergy testing?