@jammer Hello. I have not run across anybody on this site with Mycobacterium Gordonae. I did not want to leave you hanging, so I looked up articles in the http://www.nih.gov website and http://www.njh.org website. From what I have read, this particular mycobactrium is found in most tap water and usually does not cause health issues. It MAY, however, if you are immunocompromised. It can be treated similarly to MAC but for a shorter period like several months. It takes three weeks to grow this at a lab and there is another bacterium that looks just like this one and it DOES cause illness. It is called 'M. Scofulaceum'. Is it possible that you are infected with that one?