Coughing phlegm from smoking

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hello, i am 20 years old female student and a smoker for 7 years. 6 months (or more) ago i felt like there is something in my throat.like a very thick phlegm but i just ignored it and got used to that feeling. 3 weeks ago i had cough and colds then i started to produce light green color with a grayish spots sputum and it is very very thick. But its not always like that, most of the time it is clear. more or less 5 times a day that week.

I have been coughing up thick clear phlegm speckled with gray. Not constantly, but a few times a day. I was diagnosed as a child with post nasal drip and I live in an area notorious for causing allergies. I do experience sinus congestion fairly regularly. For the last several months, my right lung seems sore or tight when I take deep breaths, but it improves almost entirely when I exercise.

I've been expelling a white frothy substance from my lungs quite constantly from day one since I quit. However, today i'am coughing up something else. Its encased in the phlegm very small pebble like balls that are dark in color. A lot of it seems to be coming up. Is this a sign of COPD or something worse? And or is this normal for a person who has quit smoking, if so, when should I go get this checked out if it doesnt stop within the next 2-3 weeks?

I stopped smoking 2 weeks ago and the last week I have been coughing up brown phlegm. I was a smoker for 38 years. Is that normal?

I'm having cough since 5days. From my childhood i don't know how to spit phlegm thru mouth. I'm some how managing to spit a bit now but i can see some blood in it. I had sinus problem before. When i have something hot then i'm stopping with my cough. But if i take something oily or cold i'm continuously getting cough. I used to smoke and drink regularly before. Can some one tell me what would be the problem? Also please let me know is there any way to clear Phlegm other than spitting it.

I'm asthmatic and have never smoked. Over the past six weeks I have been coughing up grey phlegm with black specks in it. I went to see my gp who sent me for an X ray and was clear.

Hello i have been having phlegm for the past 3 years and everytime i take antibiotics it works for about 2-3 weeks but it will come back again i keep myself fit but running as my caa (long distance runner) and the top in the nationals but this phlegm is disturbing me can you give a solution i have phlegm and cough and every time i cough alot of green phlegm or brown phlegm comes out and my chest hurts when i cough please give me a solution to this answer please Thank you from:Jabir

Sometimes in the afternoon or night, the phlegm is stringy and chokes me. There are some days that I cough up phlegm about every 5 minutes. The coughing can last from seconds to the point where I get tears in my eyes, gag, choke, and eventually throw up. My chest hurts from this, as well as my throat and I have a headache. Sometimes when I eat or drink, I start to gag and choke. I can not do anything but cough and clear my throat (sometimes I clear it every 2 or 3 minutes).

It's really bad in the fact I can't go anywhere without having facial tissue and a sack or something to vomit in, cause I never know when I'll have an attack. Usually I cough up a lot of phlegm, but sometimes I actually vomit. Is there anything I can do to solve this? It's like a nightmare. It's hard to even work w/out coughing up phlegm and everyone looks at me. This discussion is related to <a href='http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/282813'>Phlegm Build-Up</a>.

I still have the brownish phlegm (mostly streaks/spots of it, surronded by clear/white mucus, it looks like **** from smoking). My chest has never felt sore or tight through this whole thing. Being the hypochondriac that I am, I went to the immediate care center by my house this morning as a reassurance, and the doctor told me the same thing. She said to ease my mind we can do a chest x-ray, then saw I was pregnant and nixed it.

I have always coughed up brown flecks in my phlegm. But now, I have been coughing up dark grey after having some chronically infected teeth pulled. Could this be a result of the local anesthetic injections, or a worsening of the copd? I can only get rid of bronchitis for about a month before it comes back every time. Antibiotics (doxicycline) seem to have the inside of my mouth raw, with white patches on my tongue and a few white blisters in mouth, also. Now I'm on Penicillin for the teeth.

Brown mucus in the nose and caught up in your throat is most likely from smoking cigarettes. I googled this a couple months back. They called the mucus - FLECS. I researched it because I smoke, I also have brown fleshy, mucus. Still smoking though.

Developed a tight chest with a monor cough but with no phlegm 14 days ago . Doctor put me on a course of anti-biotis for 5 days but the problem remains about the same as in the beginning. I have been back to him and had numerous checks done, but no blood work or chest x-rays at this time. The cough only occurs about every 10-15 minutes as a tickle in the throat and it rarely ends up in a coughing fit orin a shortage of breath. Love some help. Thanks.

I have quit smoking since posting my message and have noticed improvement. I occasionally cough up sticky clear phlegm with brown spots but not nearly as much. The wheeze seems to be gone. I do seem to still have some pain in my armpit(no swelling)occasionally and in my upper back but I'm pretty sure it's muscular but not 100%. It does seem to act up when I do heavy lifting. I sort of feel the coughing itself had been what caused this pain.

I am a 47 year old female that had broncitis up until 13 yrs old and was tested for TB as I used to cough up blood and phlegm. I dont get a lot of colds these day's even when people all have flu's. I have developed over the last couple of years small amounts of phlegm when I Laugh, Sneeze or Cough. The cough somtimes comes out and sounds like the noise you make when you have the flu.

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been coughing up phlegm. And I see red in it, maybe blood. Mostly, the red appears in the morning, and usually clears after a few cups of coffee. Using napkins, I regularly monitor and look at the phlegm. Sometimes it looks like tomato color, and I may see some food fragments, such as peanuts or bits of clam meat. So far this is the only (lung cancer) symptom on the lists which I notice.

It feels like I have something in my throat....i feel the need to constantly clear my throat and cough. I can take deep breathes perfectly fine, though i feel like my throat is contricted. I feel like it's phlegm that is stuck!! Im starting to get worrired... what can i do to get rid of this?

i have had a lot of phlegm since i started smoking again, but there are also occasions when i hack up a loogie and there are little spots of blood in it- sometimes just blood and no phlegm, there's no pain it just comes up. i know it's probably from smoking cigarettes but i was also bulimic for 2years and still do it occasionally and i know that also causes throatbleeding? my question is do you think this is from the "fiber glass" that is supposedly in menthol cigarettes? vomiting?

i have suffered from thin excess mucous or thick saliva [not sure which it is] for almost a year.I also have problems with my stomach.[acid reflux,nausea] the mucous is thick on a morning,but gets thinner as the day goes on.have had every test going but no answers yet.my GP says the two are connected,but my specialist says no.Getting desperate now,its ruining my life.Who wants to go out anywhere when all you do is spit up this sticky stuff all the time.Any ideas anyone?

03 to 06 Dec. By Nov. 2006 i could see a tiny blood in my phlegm when i do a very hard cough then its happening again by May 2007 a tiny blood in my Phlegm and so by Sept. 2007 as it is happen again i decided to go the doctor and check me she said im physically fit so we proceed to X-ray test and thier she told that i have some infection with my right lung so she gave me medicine for it and its really gone.

I am having phlegm problem and soar throat from last one year i have been to GP many times first they give me the omeprazole and gaviscon but it didnt work so they send me for endoscopy but everything was fine so they refer to ENT specialist and he send me for barium swallow test and over there they find out that i have small hiatius hernia and they give me the lanzaprazole 30mg morning and 30 mg evening but that didnt work as well so they send me for chest xray and the result is: there is minim

I have been having a rusty or blood associated phlegm (sputum) for about 8 months. I don't cough at all. Such phlegm easily comes out after I wake up from sleeping. At other times, I have to summon (pull out phlegm) repeatedly and the blood assocoated or the rusty would show up in the fourth or fifth call. I have burning pain on my ribs to the right and left of what is called "infrasternal notch" (where gastritis pain is usually felt).

Found something I have! This is huge news for people that suffer from that phlegm problem How to Solve excessive phlegm... I am not a member of the medical community. But, take that as you may, I have a story that may be of interest to you... I have known my husband for 22 years and, of course, I have also known my father-in-law for that same period of time. One of the things that was a constant problem for my father-in-law, Tom Sr., was excessive phlegm.

I am a non-smoking, healthy 49 year old female and after a recent cold which developed into an upper respiratory infection developed a persistent cough with clear phlegm. I am on a second round of antibiotics and was also prescribed symbicore to use 2x daily but none of these seem to be working and the cough and phlegm are getting worse. I am scheduled for a CT Scan and chest x-rays in a few days but don't know if I'll make it that far without getting an accurate diagnosis and help.

A barwoman cough and some bloody phlegm come out on her hands and then she touch my cigaretes. I ask if i smoke a cigarete with that bloody phlegm and then drink some water can i contract hiv if i have sores on my gums?

For about the last month whenever phlegm comes up there is blood in it. It ranges from quite a bit to just streaks. I know this sounds silly but i have a phobia of going to the doctors. I've convinced myself if i go she's just going to tell me i have lung cancer and i would rather not know that!! Does anyone know if blood in phlegm can mean anything else but cancer?? I am pretty worried, but too chicken to get my butt to the doctors. Any comments would be appreciated.

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