Coughing up hard white chunks

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For a really long time now (months) I have been randomly coughing up hard chunks of what looks like mucus. The back of my throat will start itching and if I try and scratch it I end up scratching off more of the hard mucus. I also couch it up sometimes. It is coming from the part of my throat that is bubbly on both sides, I think they might be my glads, I have tried to identify them using a diagram but Im not sure what they are. Is this something I need to be very concerned about?

on a morning when i wake up i always need to cough and clear my throat since about a year ago. but now it has extended to needing to do it throughout the day. sometime the mucus that comes up is small hard sticky lumps that nearly make me be sick as they get stuck in my throat. or some times theres a lot of yellow and white flem. its never clear. I'm wondering wat the cause of this is as i can constantly feel it there at back of my throat like a coating.

It's a total godsend!! it breaks up really thick mucus in you throat and chest so you can cough it out. Seriously, I was sssooooohappy withthe results. I could finally breathe at night without the fear of choking!! One last tip I have for you is to stay CALM during the choking " attacks". When it happens, just stay still and take deep breathes through your nose. I also liked to hold onto a stress ball or something like that. Well I hope this helped, and I wish you the best!!

I was eating peas and choked on one. When I coughed it up it seemed to go up into my nasal passage and I feel it is lodged in my palette. For weeks afterwards my mouth was continuously drying out and I couldn't seem to produce any saliva. It has been about 2 years since this happened and I still seem to have the reoccuring dry mouth problem and it feels like I have a hard object lodged in my nasal/palette area.

When i went to the doctor i was already sick for 2 months, they put me on a nebulizer and gave me an x-ray on my lungs, they said i either have pnemonea or bronchitis, it doesn't really hurt at all until night time, and i kinda throw up alot, well like once or twice a week, but i recall the last time i threw up, i coughed during and big white chunks came out, it seemed like puss or hard mucus, and they where clogging my throw up from coming out, soi was like choking, i don't know what to think

And then like a week later, I get this thing out of my throat, and I thought I coughed up a body part. Then I realize that it is smaller chunks compacted together. I squished it and stunk sooooo bad. I almost threw up. Then is was like a every day process. I showed my friend everytime I spit one up and they all say I need to go to the doctor. But every time I go she says that it is just pieces of food. And that I have a sinus infection. Which I do.

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsillolith I kept coughing up Tonsil Stones/ tonsillolith (which I have read about in the past but thought weird why am I getting so many these days) So I made my way to wikipedia and here is a little excerpt of what it says: "Other symptoms include a METALLIC taste, throat closing or tightening, coughing fits, and choking." From this I thought hmmm is this the metallic taste I wonder?

Not only the bad breath and taste, but it causes alot of histemic reaction in the form of increased mucous and coughing. When I am able to cough them up, my symptoms subside. I believe they are a symptom of a fungal infection but so far cannot find a doctor who is willing to look into it.

Sometimes I feel them clinging, like they are stuck at the opening of some small orifice, other times I cough and expel them, mostly I end up swallowing them when I swallow hard. I have no pain. I have had these for many years. WHAT are they?

I had hurt my rib so bad from coughing that i couldn't get a good cough out but while at clinic i coughed up nasty hard chunk stuff but couldn't at home.

I am not straining so hard to cough and break up the mucous. Sometimes it would be chunks of green, white, clear... I know green means you have an infection and I chalk that up to the bipap. I got back on Krill omega and boy does that really open your airways up, it helps with inflammation. I just recently went back to using my bipap since I was feeling sluggish again and oxygen alone did not help, but this time I did not fill up the water humidifer on the bipap..

I had one a month ago on my left earlobe, that after a few days it bust in my sleep. Blood and some chunks of white stuff came out. It went away and has returned now on the other earlobe. Only this time my cheek at the jawline is starting to swell. I'm scared. What could this be? Can anyone tell me if they know or have an idea.

One man did a sinus flush, and some white tofu-like chunks came out. The smell actually got worse for a while, then went back to normal. 5. Many people, particularly the ones who have a strong odor that other people are revolted by, had no change at all after doing a Sinus Flush. 6. One woman found out that the smell was coming from a cracked tooth that her dentist was unable to find, but was discovered by a different dentist. 7.

can food get trapped way down on the throat?it seems this past week and ahalf instead of coughing up one or two ,its been more. i coughed up 3 and i can tell there is more cause of the bad smell and taste my mouth has. and everytime i swallow i can tell its down there.u can't even swallow these things. they still come back up? u would think if it was food stuff it would get swallow down w/drinks or other food? i am glad to see i am not alone with this prob.

Throughout the day I have phlegm at the back of my throat and all the way down my airways (which is very uncomfortable btw) and it occasionally comes up on its on or I have to cough it up or I will choke/gag/ and throw it up. People look at me, and I'm not sure that I have a choice in the matter anymore, since it will come up either way (even if I turn white first from holding it in and trying to be polite and not hack it up). I also have trouble digesting foods sometimes.

I started to lost my friends,and right now i dont have no one,i lost my self esteem and self confidence,every that get on my way they get away they look at me like i did something wrong they sneeze and cough,its so hard to deal with this situation.Since that day that i refered when all started..i steped on water so it got in my shoes...that night and further i started to have a smell from feet a bit more active...

You cant see them if you look into my throat. If I force myself to cough really hard sometimes I can get them out but i always taste the smell and it grosses me out. What is this caused from? Sinus issues have always been a major problem in my family but every doctor I went to gives me a hastle with getting my tonsils out. I do smoke newports which I thought was the main reasoning for having this problem but as I search the web, Im realizing otherwise.

Im a smoker, i smoke every day 3-4 times a day, and not cigarettes or cigars... if you know what i mean. And on the weekends i smoke even more. I have been spitting up pieces of sometimes, white chunks, othertimes huge mucus "loogeys" thats are very dark yellow, almost orange or even rusty coloured. I have probably been spitting like this for about a year, more or less. Im underage and the fact that my mucus is already this bad, scares me since, i dont know what it really means.

An hour after the probiotic enema I ran to the bathroom again and a chunk of white candida came out with some kind of black stuff on it (could this be the culprit bacteria?). It did seem that putting probiotics up there created some kind of fight (bad against good). I found a person on the MSN body odor support forum who had a bad odor for a long time and then the odor went away after being treated for H. Pylori, but then the coughing and sneezing started after that. Interesting.

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I went from being able to do 600+ push ups and sit ups at 165 to a fat blob at 265. I couldn't crawl up a flight of stairs let alone enjoy life with my 3 kids. One day I decided enough was enough. I started to train again, like I was going to try and get back into the teams. I worked hard, very hard. I lost 90 pounds and I feel like I can take on the world. There's a secret though when battling addiction. There are other things you can enjoy that are not addictive.

Julian is 9 months old and eats stage 3 foods and some solids like peas cut up and other boiled veggies cut up. I also give him pasta pick ups but other than that nothing! She could choke on french fries! OMG I am a little concerned about what the doctor said!

PLEASE....READ MY POST ON THE RESPITORY page/constant POST NASAL drip and throat clearing... you are NOT dammed or forgotten....you are rotting from the inside out!!! CLEAN UP YOUR DIETS, stop relying on drugs that do nothing but make you worse. some of you have it right...it IS YOUR GUT!!!!!!!! if you eat ****, and are not digesting it properly then guess what you smell like??? yes some people can eat whatever they want and it does not affect them but NOT everyone!!!!

I discovered I had them one day after trying to cough up some of that sticky mucus. My first day using the irrigation system, I flushed out three and yesterday three more. Those things stink really bad. I know my breath is better after getting rid of those. Now the decongestant that I'm using is benedril. I'm not recommending that. It does a great job of drying post nasal but I'm sure it's not healthy to take everyday and besides it makes you sleepy. I do plan to start using mucinex.

Have been on hydro for 7 months for kidney stone operation that went wrong ended up with a superbug IV antibotics and severe kidney pain also, severe sinus/cough condition. Most recently (3weeks) I have only been using the hydro cough syrup. I am on day 3 of detox, last night was absolute HELL; the crying , unable to sit still for one moment chills and the xanax didn't even help my anxiety(or what ever it is) seems to hit hardest at night.

out but the other one I can only breath in not out. My doctor said I could blow my nose just not hard. So their is the problem I cant clear out my left nostril except for sniffing and I am getting a lot of sinus pressure (is that normal and will it go away) which makes sleeping very hard. I can handle a stuffy nose as long as there is no sinus pressure and I don’t want to take pseudo ephedrine at night cause it will keep me up. Any suggestions on my situation would be appreciated.

30 a.m.--12 hours later--up typing on the computer because I am up itching. I looked in the mirror and have hives, big welts, broken out on various parts of my body. Scalp is itching pretty bad as well as my hands. I have taken a dose of Benedryl, but I see from previous articles that may not work. Hope it does on me. This is freaking me out! Hope it goes away soon. Guess I won't be taking any more of that. I can't think of anything I'm allergic to, but I guess this is the first.

OMG.. I am so glad to have found this forum. I had sinus surgery several years ago and ever since then have had the occasional musty smell in my sinuses. When I tried to describe to my ENT (not the one that did my surgery) they look at me like I am nuts....I have been scoped 4 times in the past 8 months and my insurance doesn't cover the scoping.. Songbird, Mommy and Radar...Thank you for letting me know I am not the only one out there that has the alien life forms in me...

I TYPE IN CAPS MOST OF THE TIME {WHICH MY SON HATES} BECAUSE THE LITTLE LETTERS ARE HARD FOR ME TO SEE. I SLEEP IN MY ROCKER RECLINER BECAUSE IF I LAY FLAT WHEN I WAKE UP I CANT RAISE MY HEAD IT'S SO HEAVY.. WHEN I BEND OVER TO SWEEP OR USE THE DUST PAN I GET OUT OF BREATH.MOPPING REALLY TAKES ALL MY BREATH. I 'M SURE I'VE FORGOTTEN A FEW THINGS,NOT SURE IF ALL THESE ARE FROM THE CHIARI OR TONSILLAR ECTOPIA.

Now it seems to be here and started again this morning after I woke up but it was not started by a sneeze. My smell is hard to describe but it is a moldy kind of smell. If it continues and doesn't stop I will need to see a ENT because it can become tough to deal with. Also thanks to katkatkak4 post and the info about Doctor Henkin and The Taste and Smell Clinic in Washington DC.

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