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I have had cold symptoms for about 5 days (chest congestion, sore throat, headaches). This morning I woke up coughing and I spit up a wad of yellow mucus and a dark red chunk about the size of a nickel. I'm not sure what this could be. I was alarmed at the sight of this, so I poked it with a straw; it had the consistency of fat. Is it possible that food was lodged in my throat overnight? Could this be a piece of my lung or some part of my throat?

I have been waking up for the past few mornings and hacking up these chunks of mucus. I would like to know what it is before I go t see my doctor, incase its nothing and I go for no reason.

Ever since that day I have been literally hacking (more like a cat with a hairball.NOT a cough) up THICK mucus.Sometimes it is clear,sometimes yellow and there are even times it has come out green or with brown chunks in it. The only way I can get rid of this mucus is by doing this HORRIBLE hacking and expelling it from my throat! I have tried antibiotics and expectorants.The antibiotics didn't help AT ALL and the expectorants don't solve the problem.

But today when I felt really irritated by it, I coughed to take it out.. And I spat up a wad of mucus with a pinky orangey chunk about the size of a coin. I'm not sure what this could be. I was alarmed at the sight of this, it had the consistency of fat. I do not know the cause of this? Could it be that it was simply an infection or bacteeria of some kind that has come out which had been wedged in my throat over past few days?

It feels like all of my air passages become blocked with mucus and I have trouble breathing. Sometimes the coughing is so severe I end up vomiting or I often gag almost to the point of vomiting (It's very exhausting.) It doesn't seem to matter what I eat, and it happens pretty much after every meal.

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.

But I have been battling this cough and congestion for 2 months now i can't stand it lol. But my problem is i am constantly coughing, coughing up green/ brown chunks of mucus, Congestion i 'am sneezing and blowing out green/brown stuff most of the time just congested. Any idea of what its possibly wong?? I have tried everything from mucinex,Thera-flu, allergy meds, tylenol, amoxicillan. everything i can't kick this bad boy. I'm possibly going to see a doctor but i don't know if it's serious.

They had to insert a breathing tube during the procedure. The next day I coughed up a large chunk of dark red blood and didn't seemed too alarmed about it b/c they had told me that my throat may be sore and i just assumed that it was from having the tube ran down my throat. Day 3 now and I am still finding small amounts of blood in my mucus when I cough it up and I do feel "a little" short of breath but not much. I am a past smoker. Is this a cause for concern or is it normal?

I was given a pump by my doctor but this didn't help me at all and tonight, I litterally feel like I'm drowning and coughing up a lung... I quit smoking over 10 years ago (in 1998), I have no known allergies, I have severe bad breath (my wife thinks I may have a duodenal ulcer because of this.

After I started taking the meds, I actually started to cough something, and twice it came up, but it was like chunks of blood. So gross, makes a gross taste in my mouth, and generally when I cough it sounds like I should be coughing something up but nothing actually comes up. Anyhow, I am still taking the medication, not sure why it made me cough blood, but we shall see what happens, I have all this medication for a week! Hopefully it works.

My doc diagnosed me with asthma when I took in a specimen I finally got out 2 months ago. He told me it was a mucus plug and it was indicitive of asthma. However, I still exercise regularly, experience no known symtoms of asthma except for these wonderful chunks of crud that seem to lodge themselves in my throat for about 3-5 days before I either choke on them at night, while speaking, end of swallowing them, or they come out.

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?

Occasionally i will cough and a white solid lump will come up, looking like a soggy small chunk of peanut and this smells really nasty. I dont think i have an infection becasue this has been happening for ages now. Does anyone know what it mite be? or how to get rid of it. I cant brush it as its too far to the back of my tounge and it makes me gag, and mouthwash doesnt do much.

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 have one of those sinus rinse things and it helps a little bit, but barely enough to make it worth the time and effort. In addition I have some mucus in my chest too and everytime I cough IT up it hits that gag reflex, which is apparently very sensitive in early and late pregnancy. 12 more days until my due date :) I'm really hopinh she decides she is ready well BEFORE then!! Feel free to post your end of pregnancy complaints and discomforts.

I was hospitalized with a nasogastric tube for 2 weeks and ever since have had a terrible chronic cough, with mucous in my throat that I cough up until I throw up. I lose my voice to hoarseness after talking a few minutes. When I eat I have to have a glass of water at hand to wash everything down because most foods cause violent coughing when I try to swallow. I have a raw blistered feeling in my mouth all the time.

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

Hello, For the past 2 weeks I have been spitting a small "chunk" of thick mucus with one side usually brownish in color. I only seem to spit it out once every 3 to 4 days. I've looked around on google for similar cases, but up to date I haven't found any information. The brownish part looks like dried up blood to be honest - however there is absolutly no coughing prior or after I spit it out. I'm only 20 years old, but I am a smoker.

If you wake up every morning needing to hack up lots of thick mucous, or have throat pain, hoarseness, or a chronic cough, you’re not alone. You may think it’s the beginning of a cold, but a cold doesn’t continue for weeks to months without progressing into the full-blown viral symptoms. Instead, these symptoms are the beginnings of the most common throat problem sleep apnea sufferers face.

Despite having just eaten a meal, there is usually only a couple of chunks of food in it, sometime nothing. If hes throwing up, why arent the contents of his stomach coming up? Is it possible for him to have a piece of food stuck in his esophogus and he is just throwing that up? Note- there is NO coughing during any of this ( coughing is a sign of choking). Could it be a seizure?

I was super stressed out today and still didn't reach for one. I've noticed I am blowing my nose all the time, and I am coughing up icky chunks of mucus from my lungs. How disgusting I am..........I've heard it's only going to get worse as i was a heavy smoker for a long time.

I can taste it. I used to cough up tonsil stones but i haven't coughed up any in a long time. i poked around my tonsils and pulled the crypt back a little bit and there were no white chunks coming out as far as i could see. my tonsils are regular sized and don't really give me trouble at all. I've had excessive mucus before but its gone now thanks to medicine. the taste of the bad breath is around the back of my throat and uvula.it smells like fart.what is this?

It's now Sunday, I still have diorrea, I just almost threw up as a large chunk of green mucas was coughed up about the size of a 50p...My ears are still fully blocked, I can't hear my children or my baby crying in the next room, the only thing I can hear is my voice and my heartbeat..... Is there something nasty going about the UK at the min,,,,I'm thinking if getting an emergency appointment at the doctors tomorrow.

I cough up chunks of greenish mucus. It leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. When I blow my nose the odor is so bad. I had a tooth pulled back in December, and since then my sinusus have not been right. I was put on an antibiotic for dry socket. Three weeks after that I went to a medical doctor who put me on an antibiotic for a sinus infection. It has not gotten any better. I do not have medical insurance, therefore, I can not afford to go back to the doctor.

He is really congested, the other day he was trying to blow his nose, then this hard chunk of mucus came out, and he was like he felt so great. then a couple of days later he started to feel real bad. He looks purple up under his eyes and he is just miserable. He stays really tired. Last night he had body aches but no fever??? He will not go to the doctor!! Any suggestions to what is going on with him?

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.

This gives the cilia in the closed nostril a chance to clean out all the pollution and mucus. When it’s clean, it opens up and the other side is closed to repeat the process. The things that swell up to close your nostrils are called turbinates. Keep this in mind when you are blowing your nose. One side will always seem more congested than the other, even if it’s clean. Step One: Spread your feet so they are about 2 feet apart, for better stability in the shower.

I usually cough it up but this one is stuck. I've tried lookin nside my throat and brushin my tongue as far bak as I can brush and gargling w/ listerine but same feelin. Has any1 experienced this n if so wat has been done? My tonsills were removed at the age of 5.

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