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MAC in sinuses + lungs?

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Jun 24 11:04pm | Replies (40)
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I have not been diagnosed with Mac in my sinuses. But early this year I had two bad sinus infections with ugly looking mucus. I took a course of antibiotics with each one. Amazingly my MAC coughing an mucus stopped for about three months. It was wonderful. Now the MAC is back. I tried to get my Pulmonologist to give me another round of antibiotics but he refused. He only follows the recommended three protocol.

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Jun 26, 2022

MAC is described as "slow to grow and slow to go". Short courses of single antibiotics only slightly suppress the infection and don't cure it. That means the strongest germs survi e and grow again making the infection more likely to become drug resistant. 50 years of treatment and research has taught doctors to not do it.
Nobody likes to hear this but the NTM experts agree.
Sue

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