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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
@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
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...come down my throat..
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Not sure that I can tell the difference to be honest. I certainly have some thicker areas of sputum than others...generally it is greyish in the lower part of glass and white elsewhere. It is probably a combination of phlegm and other moisture...but whatever it is I feel the need to get rid if it. Not sure how much from lungs and how much from sinus/throat. It does seem to come found my throat too. Not sure hiw to determine that.