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Sabra
Sabra

I went ahead and registered so I could reply to a post by Shirley7000, but after registering, the reply button was gone! So I opened a new browser and can't find Shirley's post anywhere.

She asked if anyone knew how they had contracted pseudomonas.  The answer for me is Yes, I know exactly how.  They gave me a bronchoscopy with an unclean instrument.  Within days I became deathly ill with pseudomonas.  They take no responsibility.  Had intravenous antibiotics for 5 days in the hospital and months of antibiotics which I had to eventually stop taking due to a reaction and it has been downhill ever since.

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  • jackie14837
    jackie14837 Sabra

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    Hi Sabra. I  am always having tech problems on here . Think that's why not many people bother to answer. 

    I too had pseudomonas after a bronchoscopy, but I think it is due to the pseudomonas laying dormant and being moved around, might be wrong . Since i have had it been chest infections one after another. 

  • shirley7000
    shirley7000 Sabra

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    Hi Sabra!

    Thanks for finding me smile I'm so sorry you contacted pseudomonas this way. This is exactly how MSSA colonized in my lungs. I had no staph prior to the bronchoscopy, but tested positive for it within a month. I confronted the hospital - and they denied it. (For some reason they did the bronchoscopy in an office within the ICU - when I told the infectious disease specialist at this hospital, he said "our hospitals are CLEAN!)

    In any case, I feel like I dodged a bullet in that I only have staph. I am coughing up increasingly large amounts of green sputum and am always winded - I used to be in great shape. But pseudomonas sounds so much worse.

    My heart breaks for you Sabra. I wish there was something that we could do to demand testing or some kind of proof that their instruments are clean. Thank you for contacting me. I want to warn others with bronchiectasis to watch out for this. Perhaps they can get a sputum culture prior to the test, at the time of the test and within a month afterward?

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