Mucus clearance

I have been suffering from excessive mucus for the past few weeks and I have been using the huffing cycle for the past few years but am now finding it to exhausting. I bought a lung flute a few years ago but found I didn't have enough breath to actually get any benefit from it. Thinking about buying an Aerosure but very expensive and worried that it will not be possible for me to use it. Any experience or advice gratefully received. Hope you are all as well as you can be XXX Patsy

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Hi Patsyanna, I have had an aerosure for several years and find it really good when the gunk is difficult and I don’t feel well. Because it is driven by a motor it takes most of the effort out of breathing. It has two speeds and you can feel it making your airways vibrate. You still need to huff and get the mucus out when you have loosened it. As we are all different everybody finds different things helpful but that is my experience.

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Hi littlepom

Sorry for the late reply been struggling with blurry vision. Are you in the UK? Do you know if the Aerosure is available on the NHS?

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Sorry meant to thank you for the advice. Had a Coughing fit now have the shakes.

Luv patsyann x

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Hello Patsyann24. I am in the UK. As far as I know the aerosure medic is not available on the NHS. The cheapest way to by it is on their website and make sure that you claim back the vat.

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Hello littlepom

Thanks for your advice. I have already bought the lung flute which I am unable to use so a bit worried about wasting my limited funds. I have looked at the site and it seems to say that you have to replace the item or at least bits of it on a regular basis. Have you had any problems?

Luv patsyann X

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I found the lung flute useless. It took far too much effort to get nowhere. I have had my aerosure for about 5 years and haven't replaced anything yet but I don't have to use it every day.

[kernowdame]

Are you taking any medication to loosen the mucus? Carbocisteine ? I don't think I would manage so well if all I did is mechanically clear mucus. I need the carbocisteine to make life easier.

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Sorry for the late reply eyesight been a bit blurry. I have had carbocicetene in the past but didn't agree with me. I have been using the breathing cycle huff stuff which I used to find very helpful. I think I might be getting to the end stage as don't have the energy to do that anymore but was just hoping that it would be more comfortable if I could find an easier way to clean the mucus and have a few hours not trying to cough my lungs up. Hey ho at least I'm still here ☺

[Dedalus]

I had dreadful mucus till I found Chinese herbs from a 20-year qualified Chinese herbalist. Quite expensive but well worth it.

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Where did you find this herbalist? I would be very interested. Do you know what herbs helped? Can I get them in the UK?

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Me too 😀

[Dedalus]

His name is Mr Wu and he set up Herbs Kingdom in Brighton approx 20 years ago. I have no idea which herbs he uses for me (he creates individual mixtures for each of his patients after consultation(s). I have already gone down to half of the original dose, so the herbs have definitely worked for me. You can email him on [e-mail] for more information.

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I am totally housebound so no chance of a consultation. If my belief is right that the patient needs to be seen by the practitioner that will count me out of this possibility. Thank you for your input. X. Glad to hear that it is helping you. Patsyann 😞

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Will these herbs interfere with any of the existing medication a guy gurl is on ??

[sarcoid1234]

Sorry to be a bit late with this message in reply to your post last week. I have only just read it. Before I do ACBT I use a nebuliser - Nebulisers can be bought on the internet - not too expensive. I use it with 7% salt solution, prescribed by my doctor, so you could ask your doctor advice about that. The nebuliser loosens the phlegm and makes it easier to cough up.

[HungryHufflepuff]

I need to ask a silly question so I’m hiding it away here rather than start a new conversation. How do you know where mucus ends and saliva begins? As far as I understand it, mucus is the blobby stuff we cough up from way down. Saliva normally is a small quantity of liquid in the mouth. Mucus often comes up in individual oozements. Sometimes though, I get this stuff coming up that seems like never ending thick ropes that I really struggle to spit out. Is this mucus or saliva? Also , I have excessive quantities of saliva according to my dentist. I had to see the doctor today, one I’ve never seen before, I was really apprehensive but she was very nice, but she was asking about my mucus (it’s funny how now it’s normal to have so many conversations with so many people about mucus) and she didn’t really explain what’s going on but she said yes a lot, as if this is not uncommon. By this time though I felt shellshocked and I didn’t ask about it. I got my inhaler changed though (yay) back to 3 inhalers instead of only fostair, now I haven’t got fostair at all (again yay) but have to go for a chest X-ray (boo)