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Chest and upper back pain with bronchiectasis and pseudomonas

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Feb 1 2:15pm | Replies (131)
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@mtyler

I have had the same pain and I control this bronchiectasis or MAC type pain with Tylenol and or Advil. I max out on the tylenol or advil. When the advil started causing GERD type symptoms I backed off on the advil and went back to tylenol and added some PRN prilosec for the GERD. At some point I need to go back on the antibiotics for MAC but am trying to avoid going back on them by using the hill rom vest and nebulizer. What do you find that is helping your lung discomfort? Minette

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Apr 19, 2022

Hello Minette - Have you been checked lately for the status of your MAC infection? Normally, pain is minimal and/or intermittent with MAC and bronchiectasis. Increased pain may be an indication of increased infection, and neither Tylenol nor ibuprofen will treat it. If you ignore MAC too long, it can do truly devastating damage to your lungs.
When was the last time you had a complete workup - sputum culture with active colony count, and lung CT?
When you nebulize, are you using 7% saline? Some of us have had very good luck with that keeping our MAC infection at bay.
Sue

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