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7% and excessive phlegm

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Jan 2 10:08am | Replies (62)

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@deb2727

What you have described is exactly what I am getting out and exactly what mine looks like! The color, consistency (sometimes gel consistency) bubbly, foamy clear secretions and sometimes a mucus plug that came from lungs but this daily 1/3-1/2 cup of clear, bubbly sometimes watery, sometime gelatinous mucus seems to me to be coming from my sinus’s. I don’t have a hernia but I do have one CF gene mutation that causes thick sticky mucus. My CF pulmonologists however say what I am experiencing is not from CF but all the ENT, Allergy, Neuro, internists seem to just say, “ oh that is due to your partial CF.” Have you tested for CF with a genetics test and sweat test?

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Yes I have had the tests at National Jewish Health and the sweat test was fine. Main finding was the small hiatal hernia and MAI.
Medicine has advanced to what it is today and in reality it is wonderful what they can do and help us with....however as we know they don't have all the answers and we don't have them either. Would love to know the why but may never have the answer.
I believe I produce much more sputum than what you have mentioned. I haven't measured it and probably should.
Barbara