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Healthy with MAC: What's your follow up like?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Feb 14, 2022 | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
Good for you! That is an encouragement to someone like me. I've battled pseudomonas for over 10 years but was just diagnosed with MAC last week after a bronchoscopy. I'm a big believer in the nutrition piece and have eaten well for a long time but probably have not consumed as much protein as I should. Have you adjusted your diet in some way that may have contributed to your good news? Thank you!
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Hi, @pjas972j - I was diagnosed with bronchiectasis in 2020 and have also just begun my battle with pseudomonas. It was found in a sample from a bronchoscopy I had done in October 2021. I have had two rounds of Cipro that has not knocked it out. I was also put on inhaled Tobramycin with the second dose of Cipro but was not able to tolerate it and had an allergic reaction that required a tapering dose of prednisone to clear up. The next step will be IV Ceftazidime. Do you have any experience with it? Any words of wisdom from someone who has lived with this bug for 10 years would be much appreciated 🙂
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needed to loose weight...did...also finally got a electric bed where head can be elevated to deal with my Gerd....have a friend who had lot of pseudomonas infections....had intense IV meds for it....now on daily oral preventative meds....as l recall