Mucus plugging

[Mommy2Zeke]

I have a question for those of you diagnosed later in life. I pretty much constantly have a rattle in my left lung that is the worst in the mornings just after I've woken up. My allergist agrees that it sounds and acts like mucus plugging, but she is pretty insistent that I don't have CF or bronchiectasis. (I am a carrier of Df508 for certain and trying to decide whether I should pony up the money for the Ambry).

I had asthma as a child but it went away in my teens and I only have to use my inhaler once or twice a year. So I don't think asthma could be the cause of the mucus plugging. What do you all think? Should I be pursuing a diagnosis or treatment or just live with it as my allergist has suggested?

Mucinex doesn't work to get rid of it, and it's been suggested that I probably have permanent lung damage from the multiple pneumonias I have had in the past few years. Can scarring cause rattling like this?

 

[Mommy2Zeke]

I have a question for those of you diagnosed later in life. I pretty much constantly have a rattle in my left lung that is the worst in the mornings just after I've woken up. My allergist agrees that it sounds and acts like mucus plugging, but she is pretty insistent that I don't have CF or bronchiectasis. (I am a carrier of Df508 for certain and trying to decide whether I should pony up the money for the Ambry).

I had asthma as a child but it went away in my teens and I only have to use my inhaler once or twice a year. So I don't think asthma could be the cause of the mucus plugging. What do you all think? Should I be pursuing a diagnosis or treatment or just live with it as my allergist has suggested?

Mucinex doesn't work to get rid of it, and it's been suggested that I probably have permanent lung damage from the multiple pneumonias I have had in the past few years. Can scarring cause rattling like this?

 

[Mommy2Zeke]

I have a question for those of you diagnosed later in life. I pretty much constantly have a rattle in my left lung that is the worst in the mornings just after I've woken up. My allergist agrees that it sounds and acts like mucus plugging, but she is pretty insistent that I don't have CF or bronchiectasis. (I am a carrier of Df508 for certain and trying to decide whether I should pony up the money for the Ambry).
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<br />I had asthma as a child but it went away in my teens and I only have to use my inhaler once or twice a year. So I don't think asthma could be the cause of the mucus plugging. What do you all think? Should I be pursuing a diagnosis or treatment or just live with it as my allergist has suggested?
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<br />Mucinex doesn't work to get rid of it, and it's been suggested that I probably have permanent lung damage from the multiple pneumonias I have had in the past few years. Can scarring cause rattling like this?

 

[Ratatosk]

Maybe it's help to have someone do cpt on you. I know a few years ago when I had bronchitis, I had DH do this to help move stuff out. And years ago, before I even knew about CF, I got pneumonia and wacked myself a few good times on the chest to dislodge some of that mucus that was choking me.

 

[Ratatosk]

Maybe it's help to have someone do cpt on you. I know a few years ago when I had bronchitis, I had DH do this to help move stuff out. And years ago, before I even knew about CF, I got pneumonia and wacked myself a few good times on the chest to dislodge some of that mucus that was choking me.

 

[Ratatosk]

Maybe it's help to have someone do cpt on you. I know a few years ago when I had bronchitis, I had DH do this to help move stuff out. And years ago, before I even knew about CF, I got pneumonia and wacked myself a few good times on the chest to dislodge some of that mucus that was choking me.

 

[LouLou]

Damaged airways don't rattle, rather they create pockets that allow mucus to puddle and it can rattle when air goes through it and around it. If you can do a certain type of breathing that causes the rattling potentially you can eventually clear it through cpt and huff coughing.

Additionally, rattling can be caused by inflammation. If an airway is restricted mucus can not move about and therefore can rattle. Generally, a wheezing sound is inflammation which can be caused by damage or an irritant. And rattling (louder, courser than wheezing) is mucus rumbling ususally.

I wouldn't necessarily call it plugging because it may just be a blob but then again I guess in a non-cfer maybe that is considered pluging. For me a plug is dry and shaped like an airway or a hard ball.

 

[LouLou]

Damaged airways don't rattle, rather they create pockets that allow mucus to puddle and it can rattle when air goes through it and around it. If you can do a certain type of breathing that causes the rattling potentially you can eventually clear it through cpt and huff coughing.

Additionally, rattling can be caused by inflammation. If an airway is restricted mucus can not move about and therefore can rattle. Generally, a wheezing sound is inflammation which can be caused by damage or an irritant. And rattling (louder, courser than wheezing) is mucus rumbling ususally.

I wouldn't necessarily call it plugging because it may just be a blob but then again I guess in a non-cfer maybe that is considered pluging. For me a plug is dry and shaped like an airway or a hard ball.

 

[LouLou]

Damaged airways don't rattle, rather they create pockets that allow mucus to puddle and it can rattle when air goes through it and around it. If you can do a certain type of breathing that causes the rattling potentially you can eventually clear it through cpt and huff coughing.
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<br />Additionally, rattling can be caused by inflammation. If an airway is restricted mucus can not move about and therefore can rattle. Generally, a wheezing sound is inflammation which can be caused by damage or an irritant. And rattling (louder, courser than wheezing) is mucus rumbling ususally.
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<br />I wouldn't necessarily call it plugging because it may just be a blob but then again I guess in a non-cfer maybe that is considered pluging. For me a plug is dry and shaped like an airway or a hard ball.