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Have you decreased Airway Clearance from 2 down to 1 a day?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Apr 28 8:53am | Replies (46)Comment receiving replies
@scoop Noone has suggested that. I guess we have all assumed it was asthma/allergies, COPD and/or BE...maybe because we hadn't explored deeply enough previously to rule different elements out and it seems it could be multifactorial anyway. TBH even the respiratory specialist is reluctant to say 'you don't have asthma'. ..just that 'there is no TH2 inflammation', (15 yrs ago a specialist said I had allergic asthma!) but he didn't think I had asthma. ..more like mild COPD and BE. At the moment I am relieved to go back to the mucus being the chief issue - certainly better than not being able to breathe!
It would be great not to have to deal with this volume, but now I am nebbing only once a day I get a full glass at the time and cough/spit at various other times of the day.
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@narelled23 As you know I feel your frustration due to the same concern.
When you say you have a full glass at times.
Can you tell the actual mucus from possible moisture, like other bodily fluids such as moisture from the lungs or saliva?
For me what happens is a fluid comes up to my throat, a feeling that causes me to want to clear it. It can go on nearly all day long.
When I hold up my clear solo cup, that I bring it all up into, to the light to check for mucus with having let it sit in the cup for 8 or more hours, there is yellow mucus at the bottom of the cup with some still floating and then there is what looks like other fluids such as moisture/water/saliva.
When I found a photo on the internet of what it suggested we bring up with clearing for BE, I it looked exactly what I have in the solo cup after clearing.
Barbara