@jasmine321 Hi Jasmine, welcome to our Connect group. Well, that is certainly disheartening news after having been on those antibiotics for a year. I believe you when you say you have mac again, but I am curious how your dr. got such a fast diagnosis? It takes 6-8 weeks to culture a sputem sample and you mentioned that you had the sputem test done last week. Have you had a chance to read over some of our older posts or read our topics in the Discussion Board? It is located on the 'Mac and Bronchiectasis' home page. There is a wealth of info in our threads (conversations). My next reply to you will be about lavages.

@jasmine321 There several members on thos site who were treated successfully with lavage. @pfist (Shari) I believe is one of them. Are you familiar with the procedure? I know that it is done with bronchoscopy and they squirt a small amount of saline into your lung and then suction it out. It is a lung cleanse of sorts to remove phlegm (and with it, mycobacterias) and mucous plugs. It is sometimes used for people who have the type of mac that causes cavities in the lung. How confident are you that your doctor knows how to treat this disease? Do you know what specie of mac you have?