@eileen86 Welcome to Mayo Connect, where we share our journeys and experiences with this unwelcome visitor call MAC and Bronchiectasis. Have you found it difficult, as I did five years ago, to find someone who understood?

As the others have said, the answer is "maybe." In my case, getting on the antibiotics and using a levalbuterol neb and an Aerobika for airway clearance definitely reduced the volume of my sputum. But I didn't truly "turn the corner" and begin to really recover until I began regular airway clearance by nebbing 7% saline - at first twice a day, then once, and now several times a week.

Another question is - How do you feel? Are you short of breath, are you coughing less, do you have the energy for your daily life?
We're here to help and support you any way we can - just remember, we are a supplement to your doctors, but we don't replace them.
Sue