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How much mucus are you clearing with each nebulising/airways clearance
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: May 20 5:01pm | Replies (34)Comment receiving replies
Such a good point about other airway diseases contributing to symptoms! It's a mystery to me how much asthma contributes to the mucus. I know COPD contributes from what I've read.
I'm taking allergy shots, 1st out of 5 years on maintenance. I also did shots in my 20s. Honestly, so far I don't notice a huge difference but was in my son's apartment with a cat and did not sneeze. Lately I've noticed wheezing after levalbuterol, which is weird. So I started using albuterol inhaler and not as much wheezing. I might be among few who cannot tolerate levalbuterol.
Changes in barometric pressure are a trigger for me too!
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I am never clear about what constitutes COPD. I thought that was an umbrella term for many airways diseases, and that Bronchiestases was simply one of them...which would mean we all have COPD. Are you saying that Bronchiestases is separate from COPD?
I do have asthma which I stopped taking meds for as they didn't seem to do anything and have apparent side effects.
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I just finished 5 yrs of allergy shots and no obvious improvement! Will get retested probably in a few months. There was blood work improvement - lower IGE scores etc. We had a horrible oak pollen season here this year because we never had a frost and my asthma was off the charts and I am not fully recovered yet. I can truly say at this point there is no guaranteed rhyme or reason to the mucus production. Some times I have what I call a "storm" which causes massive coughing mucus and nose blowing then it stops after about an hour. Other times it's all day long. Night thank God is quiet.