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What are the stages and symptoms of Bronchiectasis?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 3, 2025 | Replies (108)Comment receiving replies
Does your regimen include using albuterol soln or an other soln to open your airways prior to nebbing the saline? Do you use an oscillating OPEP Device to help move the phlegm? I have wondered about the safety of using albuterol long term.
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My kids, nieces, nephews, brother and l have used albuterol for going on 50 years - no apparent lung, heart or circulatory damage...
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The pulmonologist at UNC CH ordered Albuterol 1st but I could not take it Tight chest and felt like I could not get air in. Then she ordered Levalbuterol. Could not take that either. Caused tachycardia for about 2 hours afterwards, shortness of breath and hands trembling. Now I do not have anything to open the airway before the saline. The problem is the beta blocker that I have to take for arrythmias and the bronchidilators interact. My cardiologist has me on the very lowest dose of beta blocker and also tired a calcium channel blocker, but the calcium channel blocker did not work. I am going to contact the pulmo specialty clinic in Chapel Hill NC and see if they ahve suggesions.