Hearing/Feeling stuff in your lungs

[coltsfan715]

So yeah I have been pondering this for the past few months.

It seems that in September I started to feel and hear stuff moving around in my lungs. Not like crackles but like stuff was stuck to the walls in my lungs and the air is just blowing past it causing a funny noise and feeling. It is always in the same area too - on my left side about the middle of my lung under my arm and into my back (pretty much a straight line around my side through the middle of my lung). I never hear/feel this any other place.

It is rarely audible to others - though I have had my mom and Kurt say they could hear it when I would do CPT and breathe with my mouth open trying to get the stuff to get moving.

I went on IVs and thought this would go away with that - and it did for about a weeks worth of IVs. It was still around when I was taken off IVs in October and it was odd because no matter how hard I coughed there wasn't much of anything there to get up.

Well this has me intrigued to see how many other people this happens too. I will say that it happens alot AFTER I do a saline treatment - I don't know if that is known to cause this but figured it was worth mentioning since it is the only thing I have noticed it kind of being linked too.

Interested to hear what you all think.

Lindsey

 

[coltsfan715]

So yeah I have been pondering this for the past few months.

It seems that in September I started to feel and hear stuff moving around in my lungs. Not like crackles but like stuff was stuck to the walls in my lungs and the air is just blowing past it causing a funny noise and feeling. It is always in the same area too - on my left side about the middle of my lung under my arm and into my back (pretty much a straight line around my side through the middle of my lung). I never hear/feel this any other place.

It is rarely audible to others - though I have had my mom and Kurt say they could hear it when I would do CPT and breathe with my mouth open trying to get the stuff to get moving.

I went on IVs and thought this would go away with that - and it did for about a weeks worth of IVs. It was still around when I was taken off IVs in October and it was odd because no matter how hard I coughed there wasn't much of anything there to get up.

Well this has me intrigued to see how many other people this happens too. I will say that it happens alot AFTER I do a saline treatment - I don't know if that is known to cause this but figured it was worth mentioning since it is the only thing I have noticed it kind of being linked too.

Interested to hear what you all think.

Lindsey

 

[coltsfan715]

So yeah I have been pondering this for the past few months.

It seems that in September I started to feel and hear stuff moving around in my lungs. Not like crackles but like stuff was stuck to the walls in my lungs and the air is just blowing past it causing a funny noise and feeling. It is always in the same area too - on my left side about the middle of my lung under my arm and into my back (pretty much a straight line around my side through the middle of my lung). I never hear/feel this any other place.

It is rarely audible to others - though I have had my mom and Kurt say they could hear it when I would do CPT and breathe with my mouth open trying to get the stuff to get moving.

I went on IVs and thought this would go away with that - and it did for about a weeks worth of IVs. It was still around when I was taken off IVs in October and it was odd because no matter how hard I coughed there wasn't much of anything there to get up.

Well this has me intrigued to see how many other people this happens too. I will say that it happens alot AFTER I do a saline treatment - I don't know if that is known to cause this but figured it was worth mentioning since it is the only thing I have noticed it kind of being linked too.

Interested to hear what you all think.

Lindsey

 

[luke]

Lindsey,

What you have described sounds like a "rhonchus wheeze". People wheeze because they have a restriction in air flow in the bronchus. Many times it is when someone has a bronchospasm but you can also wheeze by just having junk blocking the airs pathway in and out too. I often time feel that in the morning before my treatments. My abnormal feeling is when I feel my lungs start bleeding...I can feel it coming before I even cough. It just breaks loose and feels like bubbles in my lung.

 

[luke]

Lindsey,

What you have described sounds like a "rhonchus wheeze". People wheeze because they have a restriction in air flow in the bronchus. Many times it is when someone has a bronchospasm but you can also wheeze by just having junk blocking the airs pathway in and out too. I often time feel that in the morning before my treatments. My abnormal feeling is when I feel my lungs start bleeding...I can feel it coming before I even cough. It just breaks loose and feels like bubbles in my lung.

 

[luke]

Lindsey,

What you have described sounds like a "rhonchus wheeze". People wheeze because they have a restriction in air flow in the bronchus. Many times it is when someone has a bronchospasm but you can also wheeze by just having junk blocking the airs pathway in and out too. I often time feel that in the morning before my treatments. My abnormal feeling is when I feel my lungs start bleeding...I can feel it coming before I even cough. It just breaks loose and feels like bubbles in my lung.

 

[JazzysMom]

I just had this last night, but it finally "broke" loose & made me sitting up in a panic cough like I never had before. I also had a similiar experience a few days before my discharge while the therapist was doing my CPT....she felt it with her hands & I heard it. I never did get that up, but it moved on!

 

[JazzysMom]

I just had this last night, but it finally "broke" loose & made me sitting up in a panic cough like I never had before. I also had a similiar experience a few days before my discharge while the therapist was doing my CPT....she felt it with her hands & I heard it. I never did get that up, but it moved on!

 

[JazzysMom]

I just had this last night, but it finally "broke" loose & made me sitting up in a panic cough like I never had before. I also had a similiar experience a few days before my discharge while the therapist was doing my CPT....she felt it with her hands & I heard it. I never did get that up, but it moved on!

 

[NoExcuses]

ya i call that wheezing and i have it often

 

[NoExcuses]

ya i call that wheezing and i have it often

 

[NoExcuses]

ya i call that wheezing and i have it often

 

[jfarel]

I've had a funny feeling in my chest since Feb. It comes and goes. While I somtimes hear crackling, which I'm sure is mucus, this is more like a rough, rubbing type feeling. I can actually put my hand on my ribs and feel it when I breathe sometimes. Coughing doesn't help that because its pleurisy or inflammation of the lung lining. Ibuprofen helps, but prednisone works much better.

 

[jfarel]

I've had a funny feeling in my chest since Feb. It comes and goes. While I somtimes hear crackling, which I'm sure is mucus, this is more like a rough, rubbing type feeling. I can actually put my hand on my ribs and feel it when I breathe sometimes. Coughing doesn't help that because its pleurisy or inflammation of the lung lining. Ibuprofen helps, but prednisone works much better.

 

[jfarel]

I've had a funny feeling in my chest since Feb. It comes and goes. While I somtimes hear crackling, which I'm sure is mucus, this is more like a rough, rubbing type feeling. I can actually put my hand on my ribs and feel it when I breathe sometimes. Coughing doesn't help that because its pleurisy or inflammation of the lung lining. Ibuprofen helps, but prednisone works much better.

 

[littledebbie]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>amy</b></i>

ya i call that wheezing and i have it often</end quote></div>

Amy: does it ever occur to you that you don't know what your talking about? I'm pretty sure Lindsey knows what wheezing is and if that's what it was she probably wouldn't feel the need to start a thread about it.

Lindsey: I think I know what you are talking about. If your describing what I think you are..I sometimes experience a similiar sensation after doing HS while doing CPT/coughing. For me it's on the left and middle to lower lung area. I happen to know that's an area of my lungs that is Bad. I have been operating on the assumption that what's happening is when I do the HS and CPT I'm shifting some stuff that hasn't moved in a while and a little air is breaking in there. I know the first time I felt it I thought "that was new...I haven't felt movement there in a long time" so even though it does sound creepy strange and feels kind of odd I have actually thought of it as a good thing. Like part of my lung is expanding a bit that hasn't in a while and it's a little rusty. Maybe it wishful thinking on my part..and you know...I'm okay with that too!

I would be interested to know if you think this sounds at all like what your experiencing?

 

[littledebbie]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>amy</b></i>

ya i call that wheezing and i have it often</end quote></div>

Amy: does it ever occur to you that you don't know what your talking about? I'm pretty sure Lindsey knows what wheezing is and if that's what it was she probably wouldn't feel the need to start a thread about it.

Lindsey: I think I know what you are talking about. If your describing what I think you are..I sometimes experience a similiar sensation after doing HS while doing CPT/coughing. For me it's on the left and middle to lower lung area. I happen to know that's an area of my lungs that is Bad. I have been operating on the assumption that what's happening is when I do the HS and CPT I'm shifting some stuff that hasn't moved in a while and a little air is breaking in there. I know the first time I felt it I thought "that was new...I haven't felt movement there in a long time" so even though it does sound creepy strange and feels kind of odd I have actually thought of it as a good thing. Like part of my lung is expanding a bit that hasn't in a while and it's a little rusty. Maybe it wishful thinking on my part..and you know...I'm okay with that too!

I would be interested to know if you think this sounds at all like what your experiencing?

 

[littledebbie]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>amy</b></i>

ya i call that wheezing and i have it often</end quote></div>

Amy: does it ever occur to you that you don't know what your talking about? I'm pretty sure Lindsey knows what wheezing is and if that's what it was she probably wouldn't feel the need to start a thread about it.

Lindsey: I think I know what you are talking about. If your describing what I think you are..I sometimes experience a similiar sensation after doing HS while doing CPT/coughing. For me it's on the left and middle to lower lung area. I happen to know that's an area of my lungs that is Bad. I have been operating on the assumption that what's happening is when I do the HS and CPT I'm shifting some stuff that hasn't moved in a while and a little air is breaking in there. I know the first time I felt it I thought "that was new...I haven't felt movement there in a long time" so even though it does sound creepy strange and feels kind of odd I have actually thought of it as a good thing. Like part of my lung is expanding a bit that hasn't in a while and it's a little rusty. Maybe it wishful thinking on my part..and you know...I'm okay with that too!

I would be interested to know if you think this sounds at all like what your experiencing?

 

[coltsfan715]

Thanks for all the replies everybody.

I have gotten wheezing this year but this is not a wheeze so much. A wheeze for me is like a higher pitched whistle type sound - this is more of a rough/low type sound. That I can hear along with everyone else coming out of my mouth when I open it and breathe. Another reason I do not believe it is wheezing is because albuterol usually helps me with my wheezing - and if I do albuterol to "help" with that feeling/noise it does NOT go away.

It is not a lung bleed - THANK GOD - there is no gurgling and no blood when I have this.

It is similar to how Jfarel and Debbie describe. It IS in a problem area of my lung (my Left lung under my arm especially is a problem). All of my MAJOR problems have occured on the left side and most of my infections originate and are worse/more concentrated on the left. It does feel like a rubbing/shifting feeling. Like the stuff is slowly working its way to a different area. I guess I should have said it is more of a feeling that I get - but the sound of it resonates through my body so I can kind of hear it even though others usually can't (I really hope that makes sense). I will say it is NOT painful - just annoying lol. I just didn't know if I was the only one that experienced that is all. It mainly had me intrigued because it ALWAYS and ONLY happens in the one area.

Happy Turkey Day Guys!
Lindsey

 

[coltsfan715]

Thanks for all the replies everybody.

I have gotten wheezing this year but this is not a wheeze so much. A wheeze for me is like a higher pitched whistle type sound - this is more of a rough/low type sound. That I can hear along with everyone else coming out of my mouth when I open it and breathe. Another reason I do not believe it is wheezing is because albuterol usually helps me with my wheezing - and if I do albuterol to "help" with that feeling/noise it does NOT go away.

It is not a lung bleed - THANK GOD - there is no gurgling and no blood when I have this.

It is similar to how Jfarel and Debbie describe. It IS in a problem area of my lung (my Left lung under my arm especially is a problem). All of my MAJOR problems have occured on the left side and most of my infections originate and are worse/more concentrated on the left. It does feel like a rubbing/shifting feeling. Like the stuff is slowly working its way to a different area. I guess I should have said it is more of a feeling that I get - but the sound of it resonates through my body so I can kind of hear it even though others usually can't (I really hope that makes sense). I will say it is NOT painful - just annoying lol. I just didn't know if I was the only one that experienced that is all. It mainly had me intrigued because it ALWAYS and ONLY happens in the one area.

Happy Turkey Day Guys!
Lindsey