Extreme fatigue with MAC

I by mistake found that all of the new responses each day go to my junk folder! After I discovered that I just went to the Junk folder each day and read them! Maybe yours are doing the same. It makes it quite easy to see the new responses.

@helem I don't know which email provider you are using. I use gmail. There is a Spam folder where some of my legit messages would go. I can also set up different sub-folders/tabs in my Inbox to separate messages into Primary, Social, Promotion, etc. From time to time, messages would go to wrong sub-folders as well. What I do is to immediately move the messages to the correct folders/sub-folders. It looks like if I do this repeatedly for a few times, the email server is smart enough to get things right after a while. The ones that fall into the Spam folder incorrectly, I have an option to click Not Spam to move them out into the Inbox. If you leave the things as they are and just open them there, they will keep going there because the email server will think that is the right place to put them.

@ling123 Great explanation!

@jweisser ….sounds like your medical people are listening to you....ordering tests to narrow down the cause of fatigue….one additional and sorta easy test might be blood test...to rule out anemia...and also TSH...to see if your thyroid is hypoactive. tdrell

My PA is great about running blood tests, I can't remember all that I've had recently but I will check MY Chart where they are all listed. I will be going in to see her again very soon. I can't handle the body pain much longer. I will remember to ask her about the blood tests. I think the body pain is fibromyalgia which I've had for a long time. It comes with the weather changes plus I just had surgery on one of my eyes last week, the stress causes fibro pain too. I just want to find what is making me tired. Thanks for your interest

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I didn’t realize this is how the course of the illness goes. I find this site very helpful. Thank you for the info.

@jweisser Janice, your dr doesn't have to dig far to figure out the source of your fatigue. It is the mac & bronchiectasis. Fatigue is a major symptom of this disease. The only way a dr can tell if your lung disease is progressive; is to follow you and have a ct scan done every 2-5 yrs. Every patient is different. For some, this disease is no more than a minor nuisance, then others, may get progressively worse, while a very small percentage lose all immunity and get consumed by organisms. Bear in mind, mac is a very slow growing bacterium. You most likely won't go downhill fast from that alone.

@terri M, thanks for the information. I'm struggling to figure out all of the symptoms and how it's going. This was my first meeting with the pulmonologist, he spent at least 45 minutes with me checking my background etc. He has also ordered a heart valve echo to see if that is OK. It just takes a long time to get all of the tests completed. I'm trying to get some exercise in thinking the fatigue might be that I'm out of shape. It's very hard to do much walking when just plain old house work wears me out, even just getting showered and dress has me puffing. The doctor showed me my lung scan and said the number of bronchiectasis things, whatever they are, was not bad so I'm wondering if there is enough there to make me this fatigued. He had me take a 10 day series of Prednisone and an antibiotic which I've taken and been done with for a couple of weeks now. My PA had me use an inhaler which seemed to help sometimes but didn't make a big difference. I'm leaning toward just being fat and lazy, and out of shape. Although I do know there is something in my lungs, I just don't know how much it's contributing to my fatigue. Thanks for your help, I'm reading as many posts as I can to try to understand what is going on with me. Janice

@windwalker ....I enjoy reading your comments about fatigue and this relentless disease. However I was surprised to see you suggesting a CT every 2-5 years......I understand you shouldn’t be exposed to too much radiation but to check the progression of this disease or hopefully to get encouraging news that the disease is receding wouldn’t you suggest biannual CT scans?