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On the topic of nebulizer/Aerobika use. I use the two attached to each other with 3% saline. I do this while simultaneously running my vest for 30 minutes. My pulmonologist recommended this approach. Mucus often comes up after the first 10 minutes and continues later in the vest/saline/Aerobika treatment. Sometimes there is nothing substantial until after the treatment or when I subsequently nebulize Perforomist. If I drink water or a citrus drink after the treatment, that seems to help bring up the mucus. With brochiectasis and a pseudomonas colonization, my lungs are producting a lot of mucus. I'm only taking azithromycin at this time. I've been off other antibiotics for the pseudomonas for at least 6 months. I'm convinced that keeping my lungs clear of a mucus breeding ground with this vest/saline/Aerobika treatment is the reason. Have others followed this or a similar approach and share my speculation about effects?
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Hi pssurfer, I have used your vest aerobika and nebulizer approach and I think it’s a good one. I wondered what your performomist is I’ve not heard of that. How do you use it?
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Hi PSSurfer,This is all new to me and I don't know the extent of my illness but I wanted to share what seems to work for now. So I get up in the morning and take a one hr walk. When I get home I do an hr of yoga. After I do inversions like the plow or shoulder stand, it stimulates mucus and I release small gobs of greenish mucus. Ill do standing poses and keep clearing mucus. When I finish Ill use the aerobika for 10 minutes and that usually clears white mucus. Then I have usually a bowl of fruit for breakfast . After that say within a half hr I'll use my nebulizer for two treatments. One is budesonide 0.5 mg. 2ml. The other is sodium chloride 3% 4ml. These give me added mucus clearance. And I seem ok after that. I repeat the solutions toward evening. I started this a week ago and observing how all of this works out.