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Your new pulmonologist sounds like a great find -congratulations! If this is anywhere in the Northeast, I would love to know. It's interesting following European info on bronchiectasis (it's I think the University of Dundee that is exploring a strong possible link between broncheictasis and IBD, for instance). I am really interested to hear that taking mucinex like that is standard.
I am newly-diagnosed and am curious if you take anything in your nebs besides 7% outside of flareups? I also have asthma and am having the hardest time introducing saline to my body, even at 3%.
Thanks!
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I’m going to national Jewish health on the 26. Denver. I’ll ask about the Mucinex and post on here!
Hi. I was diagnosed last Spring with Bronchiectasis and also have asthma. I had a hard time at first with the 3% and it took a while to develop a tolerance. I now can do 7%, though sometimes I mix the 3% with the 7% if the straight 7% burns my throat. What helped me a lot was attaching the Aerobika to the nebulizer and setting the Aerobika to a low/easy level. For some reason that seemed to diffuse the saline enough for me to learn to tolerate it.
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No, I don’t have asthma, so the 7% is all i do. In the beginning the increased sodium chloride was a bit much. Someone suggested to breathe normally during nebs. That helped(not taking such deep breaths, but slow). I live in Louisiana.