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Mucus from the chest

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chipper28

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Last Friday I started taking an antibiotic, Bactrim, because the mucus in my sinuses had gone green and I was waking up with a mouth full of mucus that I had to swab down. (No sentence should include the word mucus two times).

Well, as of this morning the mucus in my head seems to have cleared up and is back to almost normal. However, I'm still pulling up globs of things from my chest that are a yellow color (NOT green). Until a few weeks ago, I'd never really tried to pull anything out my chest, so I don't know if this is normal. Prior to this flare-up, the stuff that came out of my chest was basically white (not clear) and there was less of it. Is it normal for it to take longer to get the sputum in the chest to clear up than in the sinuses?

Mucus, sputum, snot... what a fun topic!
 
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chipper28

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Thanks Amy... I'm actually already on 14 days of oral antibiotics from the initial report of the stuff coming out of my head. Just wasn't used to trying to clear my lungs, so it seemed odd to me that it was taking longer to clear up, but it was a different color to begin with, so perhaps it's manifesting differently.

The clinic just called me in the antibiotic without a sputum culture on the basis of having done a sputum culture less than two weeks before and it did culture "things" but no serious ones.

I'm not sure if I could actually provide any sputum from my lungs on demand! When I was at the clinic a few weeks ago, the pulmonologist said a loogie from my sinuses would work just fine, so I just sucked one of those down. It takes nebbed albuterol and some huffing or acapella to get anything out of my chest. Oddly, the stuff the comes out of my chest is sweet. I have candy sputum in my chest apparently :)
 
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chipper28

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Thanks Amy... I'm actually already on 14 days of oral antibiotics from the initial report of the stuff coming out of my head. Just wasn't used to trying to clear my lungs, so it seemed odd to me that it was taking longer to clear up, but it was a different color to begin with, so perhaps it's manifesting differently.

The clinic just called me in the antibiotic without a sputum culture on the basis of having done a sputum culture less than two weeks before and it did culture "things" but no serious ones.

I'm not sure if I could actually provide any sputum from my lungs on demand! When I was at the clinic a few weeks ago, the pulmonologist said a loogie from my sinuses would work just fine, so I just sucked one of those down. It takes nebbed albuterol and some huffing or acapella to get anything out of my chest. Oddly, the stuff the comes out of my chest is sweet. I have candy sputum in my chest apparently :)
 
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chipper28

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Thanks Amy... I'm actually already on 14 days of oral antibiotics from the initial report of the stuff coming out of my head. Just wasn't used to trying to clear my lungs, so it seemed odd to me that it was taking longer to clear up, but it was a different color to begin with, so perhaps it's manifesting differently.

The clinic just called me in the antibiotic without a sputum culture on the basis of having done a sputum culture less than two weeks before and it did culture "things" but no serious ones.

I'm not sure if I could actually provide any sputum from my lungs on demand! When I was at the clinic a few weeks ago, the pulmonologist said a loogie from my sinuses would work just fine, so I just sucked one of those down. It takes nebbed albuterol and some huffing or acapella to get anything out of my chest. Oddly, the stuff the comes out of my chest is sweet. I have candy sputum in my chest apparently :)
 
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anonymous

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Sorry to hear your also under the weather right now. Here you've been trying to help me out and well virtual hugs. As for your current mucus/cold progession sounds about like my usual just try not to let the gunk set up shop in your lungs when it turns green that means bacterial infection, as far as I know yellow is less good then white but not as problematic as green. I'm reluctant to really give advise for obvious reasons...lol. Hope you feel better soon.




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anonymous

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Sorry to hear your also under the weather right now. Here you've been trying to help me out and well virtual hugs. As for your current mucus/cold progession sounds about like my usual just try not to let the gunk set up shop in your lungs when it turns green that means bacterial infection, as far as I know yellow is less good then white but not as problematic as green. I'm reluctant to really give advise for obvious reasons...lol. Hope you feel better soon.




"Searching"
 
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anonymous

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Sorry to hear your also under the weather right now. Here you've been trying to help me out and well virtual hugs. As for your current mucus/cold progession sounds about like my usual just try not to let the gunk set up shop in your lungs when it turns green that means bacterial infection, as far as I know yellow is less good then white but not as problematic as green. I'm reluctant to really give advise for obvious reasons...lol. Hope you feel better soon.




"Searching"
 
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chipper28

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No problem at all. Having sinus junk seldom really bothers me. I take an extra 15 or 30 minutes in the morning to realize that I'm going to feel the same if I go to work or if i stay home and if I go to work I'll likely be distracted by challenges and thereby find myself amused and much less likely to "think" sick.

I will admit I took an hour long nap under my desk on monday thought :) (Principals have couches and whatnot, but I've just got visitor chairs and my computer chair, so I find under the desk the best option!)
 
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chipper28

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No problem at all. Having sinus junk seldom really bothers me. I take an extra 15 or 30 minutes in the morning to realize that I'm going to feel the same if I go to work or if i stay home and if I go to work I'll likely be distracted by challenges and thereby find myself amused and much less likely to "think" sick.

I will admit I took an hour long nap under my desk on monday thought :) (Principals have couches and whatnot, but I've just got visitor chairs and my computer chair, so I find under the desk the best option!)
 
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chipper28

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No problem at all. Having sinus junk seldom really bothers me. I take an extra 15 or 30 minutes in the morning to realize that I'm going to feel the same if I go to work or if i stay home and if I go to work I'll likely be distracted by challenges and thereby find myself amused and much less likely to "think" sick.

I will admit I took an hour long nap under my desk on monday thought :) (Principals have couches and whatnot, but I've just got visitor chairs and my computer chair, so I find under the desk the best option!)
 
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