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The Vest vs Volara

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 2 4:50pm | Replies (14)

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@irenea8
Whatever products I have on hand. In the morning, I drink mullein tea with breakfast. I don't need a mucus pill right away in the morning, because at around 10pm the night before I've taken Mucinex 600mg extended release (or the Walmart brand). After breakfast, right before my walk, I take a 400mg generic, immediate action guaifenesin (360 brand, Walmart, very cheap). Later in the day I will take another of these immediate action 400mg. And at around supper I take 1000 mg NAC. So, I'm getting plenty of thinners, but that's the only way I can get those thick secretions (stagnating in the bottom of my lungs) to thin out and move up. I often cough a lot of stuff up in the middle of the night, which is better than before, when I slept entirely through the night (no cough) but felt so SOB in the morning due to pooled mucus obstruction.

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@ursala7
Wow that is a lot of thinners you take. Good thing you are able to take without side effects from them. I thought pooled mucus referred to mucus that was overly thin and therefore harder to get up (the mucus needs a certain amount of form I have read).