Clearing Mucus Plugs

@scoop No one has ever mentioned mucus plugs in reading my CT scans...do they always mention them if they are there? I would like to have a good study of my CT images to try to read them myself...but not sure if I will be able to access them. The hospitals seem to keep hold of them and in the past I have had trouble getting access. Thank you, Scoop.

@narelled23 a good pulmonologist will review your CT scan with you at your visit

@joyeous I have had quite a few sputum checks over the last few years, only two of which have come back positive and then they were with different strains a month or two apart. The specialist indicated that he thought it was contamination...however I had lost around 6kg in weight in the preceding year. The subsequent 3 tests were all negative, along with further tests I had conducted a few months back. I am at a loss to know why there is such volume of mucus.

@narelled23 sometimes it's hard to get answers. I find that to be discouraging.

@joyeous So true.
Look how long it took for the medical field to understand BE aside from emphysema etc. or how longs it sometimes takes to find a doctor that understands what to do for BE patients. Learnings and answers come but not always as soon as needed.
Research, research....yet no matter how much I did of that before finally getting the doctor's attention to my saying "something is wrong" the answer didn't come until he felt a C Scan was necessary....due to my 35lb weight loss over the year's time.
Barbara

@blm1007blm1007 that’s why I totally believe that BE was misdiagnosed as emphysema or Bronchitis for YEARS!!! I think in the past Dr.s associated that if you had increased mucus and SOB. It was COPD.