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hello, i am wondering if this medication can help stop the production of mucus as well as helping thin it out? I also suffer post nasal drip and since starting the tablets i am constantly choking and coughing up even more? Does anyone on this stopped coughing up so much eventually?

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GarryS

Hi. I've been on it for awhile now. It has certainly helped reduce my coughing and the amount of mucus coughed up.

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Coughinggirl in reply toGarryS

thanks Garrry

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Tom94

Hi

I found that using carbocisteine actually made the mucus on my chest to loose and thin and I was coughing up more

But I know people say it’s worked for them so it varies person to person the effectiveness so it might help you

Hope the advice helps

Tom

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Coughinggirl in reply toTom94

thanks Tom, i am going to reduce amount of daily tablets, see if it helps 🙏

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ZepFan1

rather than reducing speak to your GP see if there’s something else he can prescribe. For me it reduces as well as thins but I guess we all different. Good luck

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Primrose63

Hello there, I take Carbocisteine 2 tablets twice a day first thing in the morning before I use my Acapella device and I repeat the same process late afternoon. It works for me. Of course i continue to produce mucus at different times and have to cough it up, but this is because of walking or what I have been eating. You just get to know yourself what you need to do.

This forum is extremely informative and supportive. Thankyou.

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Lybra

hi,I posted a few weeks ago, I have had this condition for a long time, but I think I have now got a Tablet that , is at last a help. My Dr, gave me new on called Acepiro, it is excellent, I am on my second Prescription, and it is a revelation. No more gasping for breath, no more tiredness, I can hardly believe it, I am even walking a bit now, with the help of a walker, because of other conditions . Of course what works for one , doesn’t, always work for others, but why not ask your Dr. Please post on here any experience you have, it might help other people. Good luck.

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