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I am not using a nebulizer at all. My airways are not a problem and I breathe fine. Wouldn’t know I was even sick if not for the test results. Once I started the azithromycin I started feeling so much better.
I have a nurse practitioner looking into ways to really boost my immune system to fight this then I will quit taking the azithromycin and see how I feel. It apparently has been doing some good because I did start feeling good pretty quickly after starting it. I am just not willing to sacrifice possibly loosing my eyesight and I already have non-alcohol fatty liver and watched my dad recently die with cardiac cirrhosis of the liver and sure don’t want that either. Guess I am trying yo find lessor of all evils.
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But you could nebulize 7% saline and that is the best way to keep the MAC at bay and help your body fight it. Then you might not need the Azithromycin?
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If you have MAC in your lungs, something is not normal in your airways. 90% of the time I breathe fine too, but...MAC only can take hold and grow if there are pockets of mucus for it to hide in - if your airways expel all the mucus in the normal course of the day, there is no home for it. If the CT shows MAC - either nodules or cavities, you need help to expel it. And it takes many months, if not years, to grow enough so you test positive for it in a culture.
Here is what Dr McShane, one of the foremost experts in treating NTM (non-tubercular mycobacteria) of which MAC is one type, has to say on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-EHohMe7II
You might want to discuss this, sooner rather than later, with your doc.
Sue