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@blm1007blm1007 Sounds like it's been a long road with the annoying throat mucus and plugs! I will try my best to answer your questions. First of all, when I think of a mucus plug, I think of a hardened secretion, almost like what might come out of the nose. Hardened, I believe, because it's been "stuck" in one of the airway tubes for sometime and dries out, thus the increased density/hardness. At one point, that mucus plug, was glob like mucus but was not removed so it turned into a mucus plug.
Although small mucus plugs (as I describe above) come up in me, infrequently, (size approximately 1/4 cm, give or take) the usual secretions (with airway clearance) are more like loose sticky globs. Yes, they can appear roundish but if I were to squish them, they would squish easily. Whereas, mucus plugs although appearing roundish, do not depress as easily as the glob. They are more discrete unto themselves than the spreading globs.
Please refresh my memory what your last sputum revealed and if you have tried long acting 1200mg mucinex.
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Tried 3 times yesterday. Hope all systems are a go after the possible outage. I guess this is called perseverance....my fourth try.
Globs- I had what I would call globs, soft deep green globs, before knowing what was happening with me and before my diagnosis in 2022 and before going to NJH in Oct. 2023. Presently I don't have the same color and size globs.
Mucus Plugs- What I am calling mucus plugs are soft light to dark yellow soft pieces in various small sizes and various shapes. They may have a slight green tinge to the yellow. They are no greater than the 1/4cm. Yesterday I took pictures of what I bring up into the clear solo cup to take and show the pulmonologist this month. I may have misunderstood the respiratory therapist that Dr. McShane had associated with her team in Tyler. When I showed the respiratory therapist (who was really good) a sputum vial of what I brought up she said, "You have a few mucus plugs in there."
Sputum Test Results: The early October results were indicated to me verbally by the very caring and long term pulmonologist nurse as: "No showing of the MAI infection, no respiratory pathogens." The paperwork itself did no show signs of, or indicated, abnormal. There was no listing on the paperwork such as the typical listing of a numerical number like +1 etc, nor no typical listing of the number of colonies....as all results previously had shown.
Antibiotics: I had/have not taken the antibiotics as Dr. McShane wanted me to start in October of 2024.
New Sputum Submission: Considering the last results and 'shock' of the results I immediately sent in another specimen and will await results. Hope it indicates the same results.
Mucinex: I may be wrong in my understanding but I thought it was considered more so if your mucus was sticky etc. and hard to get up and out. I have no problem getting all up and out. I may be wrong in my understanding???
Barbara
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Tried 3 times yesterday. Hope all systems are a go after the possible outage. I guess this is called perseverance....my fourth try.
Globs- I had what I would call globs, soft deep green globs, before knowing what was happening with me and before my diagnosis in 2022 and before going to NJH in Oct. 2023. Presently I don't have the same color and size globs.
Mucus Plugs- What I am calling mucus plugs are soft light to dark yellow soft pieces in various small sizes and various shapes. They may have a slight green tinge to the yellow. They are no greater than the 1/4cm. Yesterday I took pictures of what I bring up into the clear solo cup to take and show the pulmonologist this month. I may have misunderstood the respiratory therapist that Dr. McShane had associated with her team in Tyler. When I showed the respiratory therapist (who was really good) a sputum vial of what I brought up she said, "You have a few mucus plugs in there."
Sputum Test Results: The early October results were indicated to me verbally by the very caring and long term pulmonologist nurse as: "No showing of the MAI infection, no respiratory pathogens." The paperwork itself did no show signs of, or indicated, abnormal. There was no listing on the paperwork such as the typical listing of a numerical number like +1 etc, nor no typical listing of the number of colonies....as all results previously had shown.
Antibiotics: I had/have not taken the antibiotics as Dr. McShane wanted me to start in October of 2024.
New Sputum Submission: Considering the last results and 'shock' of the results I immediately sent in another specimen and will await results. Hope it indicates the same results.
Mucinex: I may be wrong in my understanding but I thought it was considered more so if your mucus was sticky etc. and hard to get up and out. I have no problem getting all up and out. I may be wrong in my understanding???
Barbara
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@scoop I have tried twice to respond and post went away after I hit reply. So this is a test.
Barbara