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Have Bronchiectasis, recently diagnosed with pseudomonas
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Oct 17, 2023 | Replies (208)Comment receiving replies
Hi Pam. Thanks for posting your experience with pseudomonas treatment. I have a nasty case of it and I couldn't tolerate the inhaled gentomicin my doctor prescribed. My lungs are very fragile with several bad diseases and they do not like anything except air breathed into them. I'm having terrible shortness of breath which has kept me home almost 24/7 for months. I believe it is the pseudomonas causing this along with huge amounts of sputum.
I'm sorry you had such a scary reaction to Levaquin. Do I understand that you took it for a total of 20 days over several years? I plan to ask my doctor about it when I see her at the end of the year. If it knocks out the pseudomonas in 10 days it would be a miracle for me.
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Hi Rits..Cipro and Levaquin are usually tried before nebulized drugs..Nebulized Colistin has been a life savour..I’m not sure I would wait till the end of the year to try Levaquin..Pseudo is a nasty bacteria..Low density CT scans at least yearly, and regular sputum samples should be done at least twice a year..airway clearance, Aerobika, snd 7 percent nebulized saline x2 a day is huge for me..💕
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Pam I meant taken it for a total of 20 days for pseudomonas. I understand that you also took it for pneumonia through the years.