I haven’t actually been fully diagnosed with bronchiectasis by CT scan yet but my doctor is almost certain it’s what I’m suffering with!
I’ve been struggling with chronic cough for almost 3yrs now.
I cough up mucus EVERY day - when I catch a common cold I cough for 18-20hrs a day and rattle with chest infections. When I’m well I still cough for 3-4hrs a day - mainly first thing in the morning when I wake.
The second i go from horizontal (even though I sleep slightly upright) to vertical I struggle to breath and cough up lumps and lumps of clear jelly and round balls! Does everyone else suffer with this?
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Coughing up balls of mucus is common to many lung diseases.
There are ways to help with this.
Firstly make sure you drink plenty of fluid. Decaff tea and coffee are better than normal tea and coffee as they don't draw fluid away from your body tissue. Small amounts of fruit juice helps especially pineapple.
Avoid excessive amounts of salt or added sugar in your food.
These things don't stop the mucus but they turn it from hard to shift balls into easy to shift dead jelly fish like slime.
Keep active, even though you may get breathless. This can be gentle activity but as much as you are comfortable with.
Ask your doctor about pulmonary rehab. You learn a lot there.
Ask your doctor about the active breathing cycle. (or look up lung clearance on you tube)
Although you need to cough the muck out you need respite for a bit so use cough sweets now and then.
Please keep on seeing your doctor for help.
Don't just google odd sites, look at The British Lung Foundation site. Order their free leaflets. They do a really informative booklet about bronchiectasis.
I have it and doc told a while ago o have COPD on 3 puffer didnt take for 2yrs now o stop smoking for 9 months now i been cough since jan not much they can do but hope we all can find a cure
Hi Coughdrop2019 and welcome. I have bronchiectasis and I do bring up mucus but for me its never clear just constant yellowish/green. Maybe others may have this but I don't but doesn't mean you can't.
I hope you are waiting to be referred to a specialist but if not insist your GP refers you.
Following your ct scan you might want to make sure your GP refers you to a respirtory consultant, and if bronchiectasis is diagnosed you would be advised to make sure your consultant has a specia interest in cf/bronchiectasis. Consultant should refer you to a respiratory physiotherapist who will teach you the best method of lung cleaarance to suit you. Once you have lung clearance sessions (which you will have to do yourself) then you shoud cough less the rest of the time.
HI COUGHDROP 2019 , ( COUGH" BEING THE APPROPRIATE WORD HERE ) !! - THATS A FAIR BIT ! , BUT I HAVE A SORT OF " VOLCANIC " SITUATION WITH MY MUCUS " EXPULSION " !! , = MY PRODUCTION OF THIS WRETCHED STUFF LAYS DORMANT FOR A FEW WEEKS , THEN COMES BACK WITH A VENGEANCE - LIKE A VOLCANO , = MOUNT ETNA ON A BAD DAY ! - AND WHEN IT DOES RETURN , IN THE MORNING AND THROUGHOUT THE DAY , I HAVE TO STAND BENT OVER A PLASTIC BOX , AND COUGH AND SPLUTTER FOR ABOUT TWENTY MINUETS . FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS , EVEN TO THE POINT OF SHOVING TWO FINGERS DOWN MY THROAT IN AN EFFORT TO GET THE DAM STUFF UP .. LEAVING ME EXHAUSTED , AND THE CONSISTENCY IS LIKE THICK " EVOSTICK " = GLUE !- INCREDIBLE STUFF !....EVEN TO THE POINT , AS I SAID EARLIER ON THIS SITE, OF PASTING BACK A PIECE OF WALLPAPER, OUT OF SHEER CURIOSITY ! - IT STUCK LIKE CONCRETE !! - AND THIS VILE STUFF IS ACTUALLY CREATED IN THE LUNGS WHICH I FIND AMAZING ! .... BUT WHY ? , THINK ABOUT IT ! WE NAUGHTY PEOPLE WHO SMOKED HAVE STOPPED , SO WHY DO THE LUNGS MAKE MORE MUCUS AFTER WE HAVE STOPPED , INSTEAD WHILST WE SMOKED PRESUMABLY , TO PROTECT THEM = BIT LATE NOW EH ! ... ? .... DON'T SEE THE POINT ...GOOD LUCK WITH THE MUCUS BIT - PITY WE CAN'T GET A VALVES , LIKE THE ONES IN PUBS , AND JUST DRAIN IT OFF !! ....
I want to know what is the diagnosis of your problem, because I am also sufering from same problem since 4 yrs ,is u problem diagnosed? U got treated?? Please do reply me .....plz plz ..
I will raise you 19 years, I am off to see a specialist tomorrow - I expect to be told he has no idea as he pinned his hopes on my not taking stomach acid medication frequently enough.
I was 95% certain it was not that, and .. it was not that.
Taking it every day makes no difference.
I did learn (he asked me not to drink booze for 3 months) that drinking to the point of dehydration makes my condition worse, but not drinking booze and drinking an unholy amount of water does not fix it.
For those of you who have not figured it out, there is a trick to getting the slime out of your throat (so I am only speaking to people with slime in near the top of your throat, people with slime in lungs - sorry, I have something else).
Not sure how to describe what I do, but here goes
* open your jaw like you pretending to be a werewolf, as open possible
* roll your tongue back
* blow though your throat so it makes a horrible rasping noise
* perfect this and it dislodges the slime from your throat and you spit it out.
Note: I am not coughing in a traditional sense, I am push air in a manor that causes lose slime to get ejected into my mouth.
Its extremely noises and displeases my girlfriend.
If anyone has a diagnosis - I would like to here it, at this point I have given up on a cure, but a diagnosis would be nice - going though Covid times and explaining to people "no - its not Covid its my 16 year cough" was ridiculous - people who did not already know me looked at me like I was a plague carrying idiot.
Anyway - a diagnosis would mean - maybe there are drugs to reduce to symptoms, but I am not expecting a cure at this point.
Lately I can’t even sleep throughout the night. I will fall asleep and it wakes me up in the middle of the night. I either gasp for air and spend the next hour or two clearing my lungs out coughing up balls and strings of mucus.
I’m just coming around to this conversation but I’m having this exact problem but I have only been diagnosed with seasonal asthma. I got bronchitis about 2 years ago and had it for 3 months. After that I’m constantly coughing up stuff and wheezing. Only thing that helps is Trelegy Elepta powder steriod inhaler even though I’m still coughing a little bit throughout the day, I can sleep through the night! . BUT if I go a day without it I’m back to coughing and wheezing again and I hate having to survive of this gross stupid powder stuff
My mucus ranges in consistency and textures. Sometimes thick, thin, stringy, balls, mixed, and it’s always clear. Sometimes it’s hard to expel, other times it’s like it tries to eject itself and to go along with, I constantly have post nasal drainage. It’s so damn annoying. And I constantly worry if it could be life threatening especially how it wakes me up out of my sleep some nights. Every morning I have to spend some time coughing us stuff and clearing out sticky mucus from my throat.
I go through this everyday all day guys & i smoke cannabis & i occasionally smoke cigarettes ( used to smoke alot ) this has been happening to me for about 5 years now honestly what do we think will happen smoking
Are u dead? Because this has been happening to me daily for 4 years, I have severe health anxiety from smoking weed.. I only smoke joints about 5 a day along with cigarettes about 7-10 Way to scared for the doctors, don't like needles, bloods taken ect.
Plz tell me in not dying r u still alive 3 years later? (8years of this happening to u) lol
Exactly the same thing has been going on with me. The consistency can change but the mornings usually a lot more and more of a thick gel like consistency. I also suffer with post nasal drip. It's driving me nuts.
This sounds exactly what is happening to me. Have you been diagnosed or take treatments? I am anxious to know because this has only started in the 6 months for me but it is not going away.
My symptoms are the exact same as yours, I had a operation on my nose 2 years ago due to rhinitis I couldn’t breathe through my nose, ever since I can breath better but my throat has been sooo sore, I’ve used every think to shift it but the pain just won’t go. The pain is on one side of my tonsil and I can see a blood red sore going down the side of my throat, the doctor thinks the soreness is due to post nasal drip but I’m not convinced, I constantly feel somethings tricking down the back of my throat, I’m constantly having to try cough Up what Evers there. The same as you my mucus is different in consistency but I have to clear it all in the morning or I can’t breath properly. Did you end up getting a diagnosis?
1- Nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide. (buy a small battery powered nebulizer from Amazon)
2- One tea spoon of Arm & Hammer baking soda with 0.5 liter of water and some lemon juice morning & night.
3- Hot tea: Wasabi powder, turmeric, Manuka Honey (830) & a dash of black pepper few times a day.
4- 15 minutes hot bath soak with 3 cups of Arm & Hammer baking soda. Let the bath water get into your ears as for few minutes by sinking your ears below water level.
5- Breath in and apply a strong outward pressure on your lungs while holding your breath as long as you can, then huff and cough as much as you can.
6- Stand upside down for few minutes (however you can either full body or half body).
7- Deep massage the your neck and shoulders with an handheld electronic massager.
8- Get 15 to minutes everyday in direct sunlight
9-If you can swim in sea water for as long as possible
10- Do not stress. Only true generous giving onto others shall reduce your stress
Hello I am currently suffering with the exact same thing and I’m really struggling daily, is there anything I could do that might help. Please let me know
Do you still have this? I have it too and no one can find out what it is. They sent mine to two different pathology labs and neither can determine what it is.
Hey There! I have the exact same thing! Do you have allergies by chance? Or are you a smoker? My doctor told me this was caused by Asthma, and I’m irritating it with my allergies along with smoking.
Hi there everyone! I also cough up those little balls usually multiple. It’s strange looking but beats the thick yellow stuff! I also has septum surgery & post nasal drip. I’m going to the pulmonary doctor in 2 weeks she’s wonderful I’ll bring it up & find out what it is.
Hi, I came on here looking for a cause of lung crackles I’ve had for three years now when I inhale, I cough a little muscles up, & it’s like little mucus balls exactly like in the above photo, the crackles stop me from sleeping as I hear the noise every single night, & cough up these little balls in the morning, I’ve never smoked in my life either just haven’t a clue what’s wrong with me
Omg I have been thinking I’m the only person in the whole world with this weird thing! I’m so happy to find you people! But I hope I can get rid of it because the coughing is annoying my whole family
I just came across this site, and seen your photo you posted from a year ago. I was wondering, has it cleared up for you? If not, any coloring in the mucus balls? I had same coloring in mine, and needed antibiotics for 4 weeks because medically I have SLE (Lupus), and CLL (a form of leukemia diagnosed when I was 10, and it’s for life unfortunately), and then I have multiple myeloma which includes a left lateral temporal lobe glioma. But then I started to hack up these round mucus balls, but sometimes they are colored. When I get yellowish/green tinge, it’s a bacterial infection, but when I get blood tinge coloring in the ball is when I’m concerned because it could be a precursor to another part of my body, in this case anywhere in the respiratory tract and/or the lungs. So then I go in for tests to make sure it’s not cancerous. But don’t worry, 8/10 times it can be from allergies to asthma, post nasal drip, etc... and can have blood tinge, however light/dark from excessive and forceful coughing. 1/10 bacterial bronchitis, and 1/10 the later. I did notice a brownish/red with yellowish tint color in your mucus, and wondering if your a smoker? If so, it can be the root cause, and to cure it, you would have to first stop smoking, but then afterwards, it will get worse as your body rids the toxins and starts to heal itself, and within 2 months you should feel a whole lot better with no symptoms.
One thing that most definitely helps is have pure tea tree oil from the melaleuca tree (dessert essence is pure oil with no additives), and put it in a diffuser and it will knock out any germs (bacterial, fungal, and any viruses) in the air, and as you breathe it in, will naturally heal any ailments. Sure it has a pungent odor, but it does truly work. (Personally I use it whenever I have any sinus infections to colds and flus, I grab my humidifier with a medicinal cup on top to put the liquid in that the cup sits above the steam rising. But I do dilute the tea tree oil by putting a tablespoon of water and 4-5 drops of oil. This is all that’s needed, and then refill when liquid has been evaporated).
Thank you for your time reading this, and I hope that this info helps in any way, and especially a natural and holistic approach to a medicinal treatment that truly works wonders. (I also use it for other stuff like my feet so I don’t get athletes foot, but so many beneficial remedies just from this one oil).
Also, do you snore at night, forgot to mention that above, but there are natural teas that help. I had sleep apnea, an snored really loudly, but haven’t now in almost 8 years. Now I don’t have to sleep away from family in sound proof room.
Anyhoo...
Please be well, and let me now how you are doing? Curious to know if you are cured already, or how you have been. That photo looked really gnarly, so I thought I’d chime in even tho it was a year ago post. Thank you again.
I’ve never had an answer, I’m 5yrs into this and some days are worse than others. It’s always clear though so guessing that shows no infection. Although I find taking antihistamine helps with the mucus. I’ve kind of just lived with it! It’s become part of me. And as it’s productive with mucus it’s been easy to determine it’s just “me” than worries of a Covid cough it’s completely different- any helps to those living with though would be appreciated
hi and yrs i have off and on i got COPD ASTHMA on 4 puffer got ser my new docter im up now coughing that jelly ball and the greenish yellowisj went to emergency it not pneumonia pneumonia thank god
I also had the same. My dr said to inhale budecort .5mg with duolin .5mg through nebulizer at the same instant. He also suggested to take an antibiotic with allegra 120 mg. He also asked to inhale mucolytic agent like mucyst(either ampoules or respules) .
I am not a doctor but having same problem. I am feeling better right now. He also added to avoid sour and cold foods
I have carefully read all of the post and replies. I am not a doctor and cannot diagnose but having lived with bronchiectasis all of my life ( I am 70) Your symptoms are not typical of that condition. The mucus in bronch is generally very different to what you and others on the thread describe. It is usually coloured and varies from pale yellow to dark green and the consistency from watery to a thick custard depending on whether an exacerbation ( increased levels of bacteria) is going on or whether it is just the day to day mucus which collects in the damaged areas of lungs and airways. It is a complex condition and needs specialist care and a strict programme of self management.
Bronchiectasis comes about usually as a result of many infections, childhood whooping cough, pneumonia or lifetime asthma.
It is not caused by smoking but can develop as a result of copd in the lungs, which is most usually caused by smoking.I suggest that you push for an earlier appointment both for a ct scan and a respiratory consultant so that you can have a proper diagnosis and learn to manage your condition.
I'm sorry, I can't answer your questions by looking at the mucus. You need to take it up with your consultant or GP as there are other tests which need to be done to determine what you have.
Did you go to a doctor to get some answers as your pictures look concerning. Any dark coloured phlegm could be old blood which is more concerning than fresh red blood. It could be something serious going on in your lungs given the coffee coloured phlegm/ dark phlegm. Advice is always to be seen urgently when this is happening! I wish you all the best & if you have time please send an update on how you are doing / any diagnosis
Just wanted to mention to any women here wondering what’s wrong with them that chest and asthma issues are a major sign of Breast Implant Illness in case any of you have implants.
Hello, I am new here. I am so glad I stumbled onto this group! About 5 years ago I noticed I was short of breathe going up stairs and at the same time my stomach would bloat to make me look about 6 months pregnant. It was like the air that was supposed to go into my lungs was going to my stomach. Then I started having coughing fits until I spit up those small clear balls that you all are talking about. This condition has become worse over time. Last year I got walking pneumonia and had no real symptoms.. a year later they could see on the X-ray where the pneumonia was as there was evidence of a small collapse (pretty common)I finally told my dr we needed to dig further into this as it is consuming me daily. I had a CTscan done about 1 week ago and it was abnormal. I have enlarged lymph nodes in or around my lungs (wasn’t clear on this) they have calcium on them. They have a preliminary diagnosis of sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease. I have a biopsy scheduled for 9/15/21 they incise the soft part of your neck and stick a camera down to your chest under your breastbone to take part of a lymph node out. Here is the unsettling part…. I had saline filled silicone breast implants done in 1998, deep in my heart I am 100% convinced that they have caused this. It is tragic that I have lost 5 years of my quality of life to some vanity issues earlier on in life. Can anyone relate or have a similar story? I would appreciate any feedback that any of you can offer. Thank you in advance!
I had two endoscopies and colonoscopies. No sign of them there. Only in my lungs. They fill up your lungs and make it hard to breathe. I’ve never smoked, or vaped. They are leaning towards parasites, but I’m not sure.
I haven't been to d doc w d small velký balls.. but traveled extensively and leaning towards parasites my self..
I've been coughing it up for yrs . Smoke some but not crazy.. but also sufer w cholinergic urticaria.. heat/cold allergy.. and skin is related to lungs in alternative medicine.. what seemed to help was winter by a tropical sea.. and ayurvedic 3month course of krumina.. which is actually an antiparasitic..
But not available where i am .. and no travel w Cov era.. so it's been more bothersome lately..
For me I used an inhaler Asthma inhaler and it relieves the shortness of breath. But I have these hard jelly balls. I don't know I have them because I use Xylometazoline nasel drops.
Anyone got the reason for this jelly balls ?? I am coughing these balls for a year now. It makes annoying sounds in chest until I cough it up and coughing it, is not easy. I do have to clear my throat regularly throughout the day and I am sure it is just because of these balls. anyone find any clue of what it is or how to treat it please do share. Thank you
Thank god I found this post, I'm one of you guys... I'm not a smoker but I used to smoke cannabis, ironically I never had this back then... this started as a persistent cough that I thought was from a cold/throat infection that just didn't got completely cured but and it kept on going and I now always feel like something is stuck beneath my vocal chords exactly on the trachea area, Im always coughing it out but I can never get it out, it seems like if it's all in there stuck, then sometimes I suddenly I feel something in my nose and when I blow out there it goes, it's been lots of times now, it comes out clean without any wet mucous or anything else just one or two transparent gel-like balls, very thick but not so sticky to skin or wet... it feels like those sticky monsters toys kids play with that stick on things, I can pass it to other fingers without it dissolving, it always has one little bubble inside, it's kind of hard to press it and dissolve it, its very gel/jelly like but resistant to dissolving... I wish I could find out what this is!! my coughing annoys my girlfriend a lot and its very uncomfortable for me too...
I’m allergic to cats and I’ve rescued one a 1.5 month ago. After a couple of days I started dry coughing and felt metallic smell from lungs. After 5 days, my bf and me got Indian covid symptoms. After the major illness was gone, the sore throat and coughing gel balls stayed.
So, i was on my period + cat + Covid, which all caused this. I hope that changing flat and staying away from cat for a while would help. Feels like my throat is damaged and it doesn’t regenerate
I have the same thing. It is Ascariasis, round intestinal worm. What im doing to clean my body of ALL parasites (adults and eggs):
Take Castor oil 30-50ml, warm it up just a little bit and add 50ml of fresh squeezed orange juice. Heat will help it mix. Then chase it with 50ml fresh squeezed orange juice. Do that couple times before bed every other day.
After day two of second Castor oil intake, take 2 tablespoons (freshly grounded everyday) of flaxseed and 1 teaspoon of the clove also freshly grounded separately on an empty stomach in the morning. Do that for 3 days and 3 days off, for one month. Amd you will be free of any parasites in your body.
omg! Really? I also have this kind of jelly thing but was not aware that it is caused by an intestinal parasite, I have been checked before that I have blastocystis parasite, but I never knew that it would cause this kind of phlegm. That is why I was really curious about what could have caused this because I don't have any vices.
Hi I'm new here and I have the clear sticky jelly like balls as well. I was diagnosed in 2018 with COPD by a lung specialist with a CT scan and lung compassity testing. I had a bad flare up that caused me to call 911 and I was hospitalized for a week, that's when I found all that out. It's under control at the moment and I haven't had a flare up that bad since. Although it took me a long time to just recover from it (almost a year). But I still cough up those jelly like balls. It's from having some kind of chronic lung condition or disease.
Im so glad i found this, i have been having this issue for about a year, maybe a little over. Im a chronic cannabis smoker, preferably dans. And ever since it started in bath searching but never found anything. This is exactly what ive been dealing with, just like the photos too. I wonder if we are the first to develop this 👀 A little scary to think about. I hope we find answers
I’m wondering Same thing this is kinda odd. I have exact problem. My mucus/phlegm is never consistent. Sometimes it’s really thick and sticky, sometimes it’s little balls, sometimes I feel it in my nose and throat and will blowMy nose really hard it coughing doesn’t get it out and that seems to do the trick. Mornings are horrible and when smoking cannabis I start coughing as usual and spitting at the same time.
I’m so stuck and lost as to wondering if it’s the smoking or not because this all started about 6 months ago and I have been smoking since I was 16-17 so that’s a decade ago now so the only way smoking can cause this is if these new med clinics that dispute this legalized good stuff is now tampering with the “natural” stuff we smoke. Cause this seriously never happen ended before and we all seem to be writing within months of one another so I think it’s something deeper and that’s why doctors have no direct answer for us except to blame it on smoking of course.
I have gone through the most traumatic experience dealing with the exact same thing. And I believe that it is connected to mold spores in the air. My place was tested and the air spores in my room came back at 1,500,000 per cubic meter. I have also been coughing up blood and feel like the mucus is stuck in between my throat and nose. I would wake up at night with no ability to breathe to the point that my body would make me gag because it was suffocating from the mucus and the tight chest.
I urge you all to get a legitimate mold specialist to check where you live because it may be causing you to be sick. There was mold inside my bed frame and I became extremely sick and lost like 8lbs in 2 months which is a lot for a girl that is 5’1 and then 100lbs. Now fighting to keep at 94 or higher. The mold exposure absolutely destroyed my body and I have health issues that I will live with forever because of it.
Please take care of yourselves and look into the places you’re living. If you see water damage, be concerned and ask for it to be looked into. It could be what is making you sick. And it gets really bad really fast if you’re in a bad building.
Found these growing in my bathroom, probably the whole house in infected. Been coughing with lots of mucus especially in the morning. Looks like black mold!
OK so I joined this forum just to post this image, as I have had this symptom since I had covid, which is when It first started and It got quite bad during the course of the infection.
But hasn't quite gone away, some times I cough them up
I have been searching and searching for over a year now to try and find what's wrong with me.
i have Heavy Exercise Induced Asthma since i was a kid as well as very minor allergies and never had these issues i have now until about a year ago. maybe a but longer.
My wife, myself and my son were all pretty ill in oct/nov of 2019 right before covid became a big thing.
constantly having post nasal drip WAY more than i did years previously having the mucous be very thick and clear with the odd white in it and felt almost hard and rubbery like if you crack an egg and you see the white twisted piece in the egg (usually will turn into the umbilical cord if fertilized) and how strong and rubber that feels... almost IDENTICAL to that and sometimes it smells or tastes extremely salty almost like ocean salt / water.
after i had one small cold for 4 days about 4 months ago now i constantly every day feel some kind of shortness of breath along with trying to yawn upwards of 50 to 100 times in a day and just feeling a tightness in my chest along with a kind of bloating in my upper abdomen. super annoying and makes everyday a struggle.
its so weird cause if i am fully distracted aka Working, playing video games and or watching TV or even doing chores or errands/driving sometimes i wont notice if im even struggling or if i am at all, but once i acknowledge it and think about it, it takes over and i feel i need to try and take a deep breath, but cannot half the time. it makes life difficult to enjoy.
i have seen my doctor and will again the 23rd of june here for an update to see if the Acid Blocker he put me on as well as a nasal spray steriod has helped any. which it has not. the nasal spray actually makes my PND worse and i swear makes the mucous thicker and harder to get out. some days i have are really good and have almost zero issues but those are extremely rare.
now i will be referred to an ENT to look further into the issue and maybe whats wrong.
im relieved to see im really not the only one here with this same issue but i dont hear of many having breathing issues heavily like i do, makes me think of COPD or some kind of Interstitial Lung Disease but im only 32 and never had any issues except after that cold a cpl months back.
im super fatigued a lot and just want my old self back.... its so hard to deal with 😦
hope to see more on this thread soon as only 30 something replies in 5 years is really not a lot and makes me think this is not very common and could be something serious underlying. i have a new kid on the way in Nov. and i just dont want to be going down a dark road that leads to nowhere and me getting worse 😦
hope to hear from some of you as well as i.hope we can really narrow this down!
So weird. I have the same thing. But don’t cough them up. Usually try to clear my nose and one shoots out. Nasty. Seems to have started for me after Covid vaccine last year. And got worse after booster.
I was sick right before covid also. That's when the constant feeling of mucus in my throat. Coughing up clear jelly balls and slime. I've been to doctors with no relief.
Hi I have coughed up a clear jelly ball this morning but on a couple of occasions in the last 8 months have been to hospital for coughing up heavily blood stained mucus!
The consultant was thorough due to the blood and did a chest X-ray; head CT, bloods & ECG which all came back normal apart from a bit of fluid on the lung. So I was given strong antibiotics!
They said if the blood happened again they would put a camera in my lungs 😳 So what happened immediately before the spontaneous coughing up blood was that I was gardening. I bent down and coughed out a long thick string of fresh blood which was like a long clot! Then I coughed out just blood! It was scary!!
For the last couple of years I have been coughing up blood stained phlegm when I have a chest infection or sinusitis. I previously always coughed up green / bright yellow phlegm for years. I have asthma & sinusitis so my hypothesis is it could be allergy related??
So how do I feel today .. so I have had a dry cough the last couple of days and yesterday I had a feeling of unchewed food in the back of my throat despite not eating at that time. I have been wanting to clear my throat a lot lately and defo produce more phlegm immediately after eating any warm or spicy food! ( under gastro)
So this morning my left nostril feels blocked and my throat and chest feel warm as if a cold or sickness is brewing. I highly suspect it’s the dreaded sinusitis again ( under ENT).
I hope we get a definitive answer. I will ask at my ENT appointment on the 20-10-22 & post an update. Feel free to remind me!
It’s kind of a beautiful & interesting phlegm ball compared to what I usually cough up. Although it’s odd!!
That's might be a lungs infection called bronchitis or if it's not going away for months or years it's could be a chronic bronchitis also one of copd, it's not curable since lungs has limit to heal the damage on its on but it's treatable u can use bronchodilator inhaler and eat rich in vitamin c to provide collagen that can fix the damage tissue in lungs, even though chronic bronchitis is not curable doesn't mean it's not gonna heal, u just need time rehabilitation for lungs and acceptance be happy.
I started coughing up little balls of mucus when I got covid while 10 weeks pregnant. The balls came up every few days and persisted until I gave birth. No doctor I saw could figure this out, but from my crazy googling I’m suspecting that it was a combination of excess mucus and acid reflux. Hopefully this puts someone’s mind at ease! I panicked for months.
I did find a doctor who wanted to do some lab testing on the balls, but I was never able to capture enough at one time to submit for testing.
I have the exact balls of sticky jelly balls! I get this feeling like something is stuck behind my punching bag thing in my throat and I will literally drive myself and everyone around me crazy trying to get this thing up. For about 5 years now I will hack and hack hiding in my bathroom so I wont annoy anyone.. I was starting to think it was a mental thing caused by stress because nothing would ever come up until the last year or so I will cough and cough then all of a sudden ill get this DEEEEP throat clearing cough and up comes the clear jelly ball that is sticky as hell and you only have a few mins to get a Pic because the thing disintegrates!!! Also a weird thing I noticed is that ot moves back and forth from one side of my throat/nostril I say that because I'm still unsure exactly where this is originating from...all I know it seems to travel sometimes feels like it's in the back of my nose to my trachea to my lungs then to TOTALLY GONE ill wake up one day after sometimes 2 weeks of suffering and it will be like nothing ever happened!!! I'll go to the Dr and it seems they just don't understand how serious and life ruining this is because when I'm there I'm not having a fit..I think I've made it in during an attack maybe 2x and I literally was crying stating I was literally going crazy...another symptom is that i cant breathe or seem to catch my breath like plastic is sitting in my throat! And when it by chance come loose by itself its like it crackles and drains cauing my eyes to water and i start to choke uncontrollably just to have a few mins of relief and bam its back again! I have found that if I take a Xanax when it is just starting it almost completely goes away if i catch it early enough, the only problem with that is no doctor seems to want to prescribe xanax...i dont even like xanax because i dont like to be groggy and would only use it for serious situations like when i literally strip my throat causing me to lose my voice. One doctor even said I was being Neurotic...I was like," ya think???" But like I said it will just go away just like that!! if it didn't I don't think I could take it...at the very least would have to check myself into a mental institute! The newest development is that recently, it has changed and I'm able to hack up the smallest chunk of something that looks like a piece of throat or lung or something. I can't imagine something so small causing such a mess! It is also very sticky and quickly shrinks into a tiny hard as a rock booger like thing. Oh and when it coming up I get a taste in my throat that tastes like dirty polluted air not food but dirty air maybe even smoke even if I haven't been around smoke or dust. I'm scared because it seems to be happening more often than before and it is ruining my life because when it's happening my life literally is at a halt I can't do anything or be around people because it's humiliating and annoying. If anyone knows what is happening please share...I'm 45 and haven't been able to have a steady job for years now because of this I'm sick of being broke and snorting!!! Thanks for listening 😔
I have similar symptoms, coughing out yellow tinted strings and balls for the past 6 months. Couldn’t sleep because of chronic coughs, until the doctor gave me a puffer for the symptoms. Did CAT scans on both throat and lung, and shows nothing. Now, my family doctor is thinking it might be silent reflux disease. I looked up the symptoms match what I experienced EXACTLY.
Cough, hoarse voice, breathing issue, shortness of breath, post nasal drip back, ear infection
Some of the symptoms are very surprising. Another doctor once asked if I thought I have acid reflux, and I quickly dismissed it because I never had heartburn. But silent reflux has no heart burns .
Not saying that’s what you have, but it is something to look into. For me, testing a med and seeing how this goes. Wish me luck.
I have these mucus balls as well. Since 2019. I believe it's due to silent reflux. Mine gets worse (and breathing as well) in the morning after I had for example dark chocolate or dairy the night before.
I've noticed a few people on here mentioning that they have this problem and also smoke. I smoked for the better part of the last decade and have had this problem for about two years, coughing these up consistently all day, along with maintaining a constant post-nasal-drip. Every night I'd spend about 45 mins to an hour coughing up phlegm and trying to get rid of the drippage. I quit smoking about a month ago. Within about 2-3 days, the post nasal drip completely went away. Within about a week, the constant coughing all day went away, and about two weeks in, the majority of my coughing went away. I got a cold last week (three weeks in) which has had me sneezing and coughing all week, which has brought a bit more of that black phlegm up, but I expect that's because I smoked for about a decade, so my lungs aren't completely clear of the resin and tar yet. All in all to say, if you smoke and have this issue, try quitting smoking - it might change your life. If you don't smoke and have this issue, I wish you the best and hope you're able to find the cause and relief.
Hi I just came across your post and I have been having similar problems my asthma is the worst it's ever been my chest is soooo tight especially in the morning and evening and now while I'm trying to sleep wakes me up and I have to take my blue inhaler alot. I have been coughing up massive balls of clear phlegm I will attach a picture and see if yours looks like what i cough up. I am having a chest Xray soon as I have been on steroids increased my inhalers antihistamines and nasal sprays and I still struggling with shortness of breath. My doctor listened to my chest and said it sounds clear so that's why I'm having the Xray because why I'm having such a tough time breathing when my chest is clear, I also have heart disease but my heart is stable at the moment? So very confusing hayfever is seriously doing me in. I cough up clear foamy looking phlegm everyday now i honestly don't know what's causing this. Sometimes when I go to cough it up it inflates like a balloon and goes into a massive bubble with yellow and red in side so it's really odd. Sorry for rambling. Hope you was able to get a diagnosis and some help x
Hi this is an old post but you should be checked for the following conditions
-Sinus infection or sinus abnormality (ENT Doctor)
-Allergies (Allergist)
-Acid reflux! This is the most likely culprit (Gastroenterologist)
-Lung infection (Pulmonologist)
You can start by taking some OTC meds one at a time to see what reduces the mucous balls. For example, take some Allegra for a week or two. See if that does anything. If not, try some Nexium for a couple weeks. If those don't work, see a doctor. Unfortunately this can be quite a few conditions so it may require a few doctor visits.
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