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No..... but I was able to give him a lung scan done two weeks ago and he could see bronchiectasis in lower right lobe. I had seen this guy back in 2010 before I even thought about going to Mayo's....... at that time, again...... he called it asthma and gave me inhalers. He has a good reputation and personally, I do like him, but I am just perplexed about the asthma. He also wants to start a program of 250 mg daily for 12 months of azithromicin......... he feels I should not have an episode more than once/twice yearly. That would be great -- incidentally, he was quick to say I did not have bronchiectasis in 2010....... and I'm sitting there wondering how he knew that -- he didn't do a sputum test or a cat scan. He did an x ray and breathing tests and said asthma. Of course the cough continued and after many years, I finally went to Mayo's.
My Mayo dr said for me to never take azithromycin because it is one of the BIG GUNS. He said he did not want me to become resistant to it and then if I were to get sick in the future and nothing else worked, then we could fall back on it. It sounds like your dr put you on that as a preventative measure. I was on a similar regimen with doxycycline and ciprofloxacin for three years. Now mine is tobramycin and cipro. Doctors seem to have different theories on how to treat people. Sometimes it comes down to a 'Suseptability Test' which shows what antibiotic will work.
Thanks much for your knowledge and input
Hi Jan. When were those last sputem tests you had done? I am not saying you don't have asthma, but I was told for years that I just have asthma; when in fact, I had bronchiecstasis. Did this new local pulmonologist do any sputem test on you?