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@brigby Hi Brenda. Supposedly, if you have the pink bacteria in your bathroom at home, then you do not have avium mycobacterium lurking in your pipes. The pink bacteria outranks the mac variety. This is according to Dr. Joseph Faulkinham who is a microbiologist at Virginia Tech University. I have been collecting statistics on mac patient's occupations too, so I am glad that you mentioned that you are a teacher. I have found that the majority of mac patients have worked as nurses or in the medical field (I would say about 80%). Second to them is teachers. The correlation that I see between the two is that both occupations expose you to many people and their germs year after year. The other correlation I see is that hospitals and schools use commercial cleaning products. It is possible they are creating super bugs.. These are just my observations from reading so many posts here over the years.

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pfists | @pfists | May 23, 2019

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Terri
That's very interesting about NTM patients working in nursing and teacheing field.
I was working in a medical clinic in Urgent Care when I got so sick I finally had to retire. I just kept getting sickier and sicker. It was probably the worst place to be because just about everyone that came in had a virus, cold or some kind of bacteria. Yuck
Dont know how I lasted as long as I did.
Shari

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Brenda R. | @brigby | May 24, 2019

@windwalker Hi Teri, well bummer, then, I guess, that our water residue is orange instead of pink! LOL

I regularly culture m. Abscessus in both my sinuses and lungs, along with MAC, MAI, HIBB, and now this last sputum sample shows AFB positive, that’s new, along with some fungi: Penicillium series, aspergillosis, and MUCOR.

But I am blessed and lucky to be functioning really well & able to work right now. Have not had to start Big 3. Like you, I take a prophylactic (inhalant) antibiotic daily.