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In shock after MAC diagnosis

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Nov 1, 2022 | Replies (136)

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Fdixon63 'toby' is short for tobramycin, an inhaled antibiotic. That is what I am on as a maintenance drug to stay free of mac & pseudomonas.

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Just wanted to pass along that On Sept. 2 I was asking what "toby" was short for. Now have begun nebulizing with it. I had my first sputum results come back after starting with a different doctor in August. My sputum shows it is "growing a lot of Pseudomonas. There are 3 different colonies of this bug in your sputum, and 2 of them are resistant to Levaquin." I had been given Levaquin for Pseudo. A. this spring after bronchoscopy and thought it was gone because cough completely disappeared. Not sure if it was gone or just suppressed and came back. The specimen sent in a few weeks ago was the first one I was able to produce since spring. My doc had ordered the antibiotic cefTAZidime 2 gm injection (IV) every 8 hrs which I began yesterday after getting a PICC line placed. I will self administer the IV ceftazidime for 14 days and inhale the Toby for 28 days. Next will submit sputum to be checked. Has anyone else had experience with this treatment?