Just to thank all you folk for your support.At present I am on a steroid inhaler and tablets to help with the evacuation of mucus. Overall i feel quite well although my gout has decided to make a reappearance.
So thank you all and i hope you all keep well
you can get an acapella device on nhs prescription in UK to help with mucus clearance. Like a flutter but adjustable and can be used in any position.
Interesting to hear that when your chest has gone down the gout rears up. I have found that my gout starts to appear just before my chest goes gooey?
Seems there is link?
Before I got COPD, I was a sportsman. I thought my blood circulation was not so bad but just occasionally I would get gout. I learned to recognise the onset and would take a double dose of anti-inflams and a single dose the following day. Gout gone ! Since age has crept up and I have retired, I don't get any exercise to help the circulation and last year went through two horrible, separate weeks of gout. (All self-inflicted via lots of wine). The anti-inflams didn't work.
The IOW where I live has many people with the same problem, but they had all learned earlier to take 300mg of allopurinol daily. I asked my GP for the same meds and he first insisted that I recover from the latest bout and have my blood checked to see if I was actually susceptible to gout, generally. Apparently, I was and was prescribed a daily 300mg allopurinol pill. My life style has not changed, but I don't get repeats of gout attacks.
Since I started taking them, I have found many of my acquaintances are doing the same. For what it's worth, I haven't heard one negative comment about them.
Good luck.
I find breathing in warm mist water helps break up mucus. While I have COPD I usually don't have thick mucus, but let a cold add its two cents and I can get pneumonia.
have you tried carbocisteine, it helps me slightly bring up this awful phlegm
best regards jimmy
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