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Azithromycin 500 mg. 3 X week for Bronchiectasis

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Feb 28, 2023 | Replies (16)
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@liz440

Due to kidney issues I am on only 250 mg 3 x a week. I have no idea if it is helping or not. It's been about 2 months for me. I have pseudomonas but people don't seem to like this treatment because they say it can cause MAC (if you should get it) to become resistant to azithromycin and that would be really bad.

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irenea8 | @irenea8 | Feb 20, 2023

Taking the Azithromycin 3 times a week is a prophylactic treatment for chronic Pseudomonas. For me it had an anti inflammatory effect and made the mucus very easy to expel. BUT after only taking it for one day i had heart symptoms. So i never took it again. I do not see how people can tolerate it ongoing but some people do just fine on it. I have read that you should NOT take it alone if you have MAC .

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