Board: Lung & Respiratory Disorders / COPD 
06-15-2013, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 83 Re: copd and and 5-10% lung function
If your husband continues to smoke, and with only a lung capacity that will continue to drop, for every year that he continues, you don't need someone to tell you how long he has to live. If he...
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Board: Lung & Respiratory Disorders / COPD
02-14-2013, 05:48 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 417 Re: MAC Treatment Options
I had MAC when I was 65, and I didn't think that I would ever survive the disease. I was on a total of 3 antibiotics, totalling 2400 mg. a day. I took the least dosage in the morning. I ate what...
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Board: Lung & Respiratory Disorders / COPD
10-31-2011, 02:13 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,334 Re: mycobacterium avium complex/prognosis?
I had MAC back in 2007, and was on rifamin, ethambutal, and xythromycin(sp) for a year and a half. The total daily dosage of the combined drugs was 2600mg. I took probiotics every day, and took the...
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Board: Cancer: Lung
10-16-2011, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,457 Re: Lung Nodules
I agree with your nurse friend. Because I was a smoker, my pulmonoligist immediately thought cancer, as the radioligist also concluded. I was sent to an oncologist, because I had several nodules,...
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Board: Lung & Respiratory Disorders / COPD
08-07-2011, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,737 Re: Night sweats with MAC antibiotics.
The night sweats are not from the antibiotic, but the MAC. As the bugs are killed off, the sweats get better, then almost completely disappear.
I was on the antibiotics, similiar to yours and took...
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Board: Lung & Respiratory Disorders / COPD
05-25-2011, 04:21 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 626 Re: Lung biopsy
What led up to this "scarring of the lung and enlarged nodes"? Make a list of all the questions you want answered from the Dr. and refuse to leave until they are all answered to your satisfaction...
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