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Interesting. I have been wondering about my sinuses. Every morning when I wake up I cough up mucus for about 15 minutes and have to blow my nose about 20 times. After that my nose is clear for the rest of the day, but the mucus in my throat stays. I had been drinking all my liquids warm, but stopped when the weather got so hot. I am going to try going back to warm liquids too see if that will help my throat. Thank you for your response and giving me something to think about.
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jillcrawford | @jillcrawford | 5 minutes ago
jillcrawford | @jillcrawford | 1 minute ago
FYI, after continuous bouts of pneumonia Ucla recommended that I have both sinus and hernia surgery. No one mentioned BrONC for a whole year and a half.
I had a large hernia that they felt was contributing bacteria to the trachea, and also chronic sinus infection infections
I did both surgeries in 2025 2024
My pneumonia came back and my be grew from one lobe to three lobes , so I’m not so sure how much surgery will accomplish
I do the vest with albuterol nebulizer, and follow it with aerobika with saline 3b%nebulizer. I find that when I get to the saline and aerobika , I bring up tremendous amounts of mucus.
In addition to that, I wake up with at 1/4 least half a cup of mucus in my throat, most mornings
I still have mucus even after doing about seven rounds of the aerobic 10 times each. It does get less, but is it OK to leave some?
For now, I’m just doing this once a day
my Pulmo switched me back to once from twice a day because I was getting very exhausted
Does everybody do this twice a day and how do you have any energy left to exercise. The aerobic art particularly takes an enormous amount out of me.
PS I have BE 3 lobes
If I’m clearing out my mucus, why do I get so much more when I wake up in the morning. It’s always a different color. It’s always yellow whereas the mucus I’ve bring up with the aerobic, etc., is mostly green. Thank you Jill.
Yes, have Be in lobes after almost 2 years of pneumonia, which did not get eradicated by any antibiotic, so my doctor started me on airway clearance
I feel like I’ve been through a lot of unnecessary surgeries when a proper diagnosis and intervention early on could have treated the BE when it was in one lobe
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I think your throat will feel better if you don't "clear it" but rather just normally or force a swallow and drink water. Mine got better when I stopped the cough/clear event by forcing a swallow as advised by a sinus dr.