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Diagnosed with pbc a year ago have aches and constantly fall asleep with out any real warning. Lately feel like I have a chest infection coughing some disgusting phlegm up witch seems worse in the morning anybody anything similar and what did you use

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HiI think you should be making appointment with doctor to get it checked out .

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Yeah tried slightly impossible to get an appointment lately. I was told it could be acid reflux but don't know

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I have acid reflux and I have had chest infections and I wouldn’t say that they are similar symptoms. Most gp surgeries are doing phone appointments, I would ask for one of them. Coughing up phlegm is not acid reflux

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always make sure your GP knows about this.... all too often we tend to blame everything on PBC. That isn't always the case.

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