The Vest vs Volara

@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.

@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).

@irenea8 Well, maybe my airways are more damaged than most - all I know is that I can't move the stuff from my lowest airways without the aid of thinners. Maybe I was all plugged up prior to this, I'm not sure.

@ursala7
Right now I am on IV antibiotics and have little mucus but normally I have a lot that will ONLY come up from mid or lower airways if I invert myself while using the Aerobika. I have a chaise couch and at the end of the chaise I put something that is slightly lower with a pillow on it for my head. Then my hips are raised some with a pillow. My knees are up. I do multiple sets of Aerobika like that and then each set I sit up and breath/cough out the large globs that drain out from the inversion. If I did not do this I would get very sick very quickly. I do not know if it would work for you.