For 4years I have been taking antibiotics to combat mycobacterium avium pulmonary disease referred to as airborne TB. I also have the condition bronchiectasis.
In all this time I have not come across anyone with this illness; unknown to the Lung foundation it seems after attending a local breathe easy group.
Does anyone else out there have this disease? Or know of anybody who is taking these TB highly toxic drugs.
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Would you mind telling me when you first were diagnosed with Mac and how long did it take to get rid of it. Did you take antibiotics aurally or intravenously.
I have Mac and pseudomonas along with bronchiectasis. People with bronchiectasis also get many types of other incurable germs. I took the three drug tx for two yrs. My sample showed the Mac was arrested. Only for it to show up again with the next sample. So now I just live with it. I go to an NTM support grp. Look up National Jewish and NTM. It will tell you everything you want to know about it.
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