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@kathyjjb For me it is easy to bring up the mucus vs how hard it appears for others who say they can't bring up anything? Question: Is it easy for you to bring up the mucus?

The nurse at Tyler (she has been a pulmonologist nurse for years and was Dr. McShane's nurse) who has always been good about answering my questions on my chart messenger. talked in terms of the numbers of colonies as the indicator. The Tyler lab report would indicate the number of colonies and as well give a plus (+) number also when the MAI was showing positive.

I don't know if you read my post elsewhere but I have started doing one day of saline/nebulizing and the next without the saline/nebulizing, however, I am doing all other things I do on the day I nebulize. For me I get up just as much the day I don't nebulize. I want to see how that goes and how I feel. So far fine.
We all have to find our way to what will work for us and what we can or cannot do to save time.
Barbara

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@blm1007blm1007 Maybe it is colonies? I'll have to ask my ID doctor when I go back to see her. I for sputum production, I always thought I had dry BE but now that I am nebulizing, I am coughing up more. If I don't nebulize daily, I don't get up as much. I would rather be able to produce more mucus vs it is becoming compacted in airways-which is what my CT has shown. I have tried the vest, but it gave me vertigo, not doing that.