@pamelasc1, Pamela, I just would be so scared if I was you. Don't forget .. the mycobacterium ONLY becomes 'stable'/stops colonizing in your lungs after you stop your antibiotic treatment! AND you can later get a second/THIRD mycobacterium! My second mycobacterium that I got was the REALLY serious one that kicked me into not 12 to 18 months of antibiotics .. but THIRTY months .. it was the type:MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS SUBSPECIES M. BOLETTI ISOLATES. A VERY nasty critter!

Pam, this is ONLY a question you can discuss with your ID doctor .. but please do so. It is too big a decision to make on your own .. or with this Forum. I know you love your hot tub .. BUT I LOVE my ice cream .. would eat it twice a day .. but I know to be healthy I just can't .. so I don't keep it in the freezer because I know if it was there I'd eat it .. out of sight out of mind! Frankly I would not bother with 'research' .. this is a question for you and your doctor. The internet is FULL of garbage. Hope you don't mind me saying this .. just my opinion .. but I care about you. Hugs to you! Katherine