Every day I cough up what looks like a scab with ugly mucous and tiny amounts of blood. It seems to come from the back of my throat or nose. My doctor has seen the scab but does not see anything wrong. This, to me, seems really odd. Has anyone had this problem?
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My Navage came like 3 weeks after I started the Ponaris and the Ponaris alone helped so so much. The Ponaris alone made the "scab" soft enough, small enough with the oil that it came out in smaller bits that did not make me gag. The good part about the Navage is that it gets those bits out for you, essentially. Really, its just a fancy neti pot. I absolutely believe that a sinus rinse bottle would help. Maybe try the oil and see hoe you do and expand from there. Let me know how it goes!
Thanks so much for the reply. It was delivered today so I’m hoping it works.
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Hello all, thank you for posting about this topic… I too am plauged with the crusty greenish yellow circular phlegm balls that I have been coughing up every other day. This has been happening to me for almost 3 years, but gotten much more frequent with time. My doctor cultured my phlegm and it came back as heavy growth staph areus (not mrsa) with rare white blood cells seen and many gram positive coli. I was put on 300mg of clindamycin 3x a day for 10 days. Immediately the coughing of these nasty things stopped and I could finally rest my throat. However, 6 days after antibiotics were over (yesterday) the darn thing was coughed up again 🙁 now, it looks much clearer and a little smaller than before, but still concerning and has the darker spot in the middle. It's really hard too in the center.
Today I saw my ent for a endoscopy (he saw the phlegm sitting near my antenoids near the nasopharynx far back in my nose in the center of my head.) He then did a sinus CT which he said showed nothing abnormal… He isn't worried about this ball of phlegm and said I do not have a sinus infection. He said it's common for staph to collect in the nose. I seriously don't understand why the antibiotics stopped this while I was on them if it wasn't an medical worthy bacterial infection?? He won't give me antibiotics for longer because he's afraid of side effects like c diff and said I don't need it. :/ I told him I literally cannot live with this forever, as it hurts to hack this stuff up. He then replied that he can offer a biopsy of the area that will check the cells as well as culture the samples and he will clean the area with antibiotic ointment. I seriously doubt this is going to help, but I am out of options and just want it to be over with so I agreed to do it next Wednesday.
Has anyone ever had a remedy to this madness? I am at my wit's end. To make things even more interesting, my left eyelid is dropping and started around the same time as this mucus issue. My neurologist 2 years ago said my MRI was normal and I am fine. So it's normal to cough up phlegm balls and have a sagging eyelid at age 30? Someone PLEASE help lol ……..
I too have been having the same problem for two years now ,every morning it’s the same mucus just lying in my throat ,sometime it forms so hard and crusty it’s hard to hack up!Iv been to the doctor too may times and I’m now only getting my ent appointment, the doctor Kept saying it’s possible reflux but medication didn’t help ,also had multiple nasal sprays ,antibiotics,antihistamines ,it always lodges it’s self on side of my throat ,also the side my throat always feels very irrated it seems the pain comes kinda Above one tonsil that no doctor seems to understand why ,it’s so frustrating and now causing problems with my eating as it feeling like my food always getting stuck with my mucus
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I ordered the Ponaris and it should be here tomorrow. I can’t afford the Navage. Do you think this would work in a regular sinus rinse bottle?