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Has anyone worked with Carrie Daenell, ND? She worked with the author of Beating Bronchiectasis. If you have worked with her & would be willing to share your story, I’d appreciate it. Just vetting another practitioner. Thanks!
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It is the NAC oral that makes me more tired. I have extreme fatigue in general but the NAC makes it worse. So does Mucinex! But the glutathione inhalation did not have that effect that I can recall. It was just bad tasting/smelling and may or may not have had any benefits. Was never sure.
Is the glutathione the same as inhaled NAC?
not the same.
Not the same but I believe both are considered mucolytics. When I went off nebulized NAC, my pulmonologist said I could try Mucinex (which I have yet to start as I was also starting other meds and modalities at the time)
I read somewhere that a CT scan might not show bronchiectasis in someone not suffering an active infection. Bronchia were compared to a blown-up and emptied balloon: flaccid, stretched, but nothing inside to let you see that. When full of mucus, as during an active infection, the misshapen bronchia "fill out" and reveal bronchiectasis on a CT scan. When they're relatively empty, they don't. The author's follow-up CT scan showed no bronchiectasis, which he interpreted as not having bronchiectasis anymore, but it may have been he was clearing his airways so successfully there was no pooled mucus in them to show stretching. Which is also great! If true, it means some of us can enjoy decent health as long as we neb saline and practice airway clearance and nasal lavage and live right.
I could have this all wrong of course! But if it's correct then right now my own condition might not show up on a CT scan as it did 7 weeks ago, when I was coughing constantly and infected by multiple viruses and something bacterial that caused conjunctivitis (because anti-bacterial eyedrops resolved that). I've been diligently nebbing saline since then and feeling much, much better, to the point I only cough a few times a day now, lightly and usually when speaking. My slack worn-out bronchia were probably filled with scan-able gunk when I finally went to the urgent care. I bet they look better now, but I can't afford another CT scan to find out. I'm curious what my scheduled scan next year will show -- hopefully I won't suffer any more hideous respiratory infections by then.