This might be kind of a stupid question, but my mother always says, "there are no stupid questions, only stupid people," so guess what that makes me?!
Anyways, here goes.......
Some days I cough up alot of little chunks. Like hardened clumps of mucous (SO gross, I know). The weird thing is, it's either a chunk day or it isn't. Like on a regular day, the crap I cough up is smooth and fluid. Then on a chunk day, all I cough is these hard chunks. Does this happen to anyone else? Does anyone know if coughing these chunks is a good thing or a bad thing? My aunt works for a respirologist, and she says that he says it's a good thing because it shows that your lungs/muscles are strong enough to get these 'plugs' out. I personally don't think it's a good thing (or a very pleasant thing). Do you think different CFers have different amounts of these chunky plugs? Does everyone cough these up? I try to write down information on chunk days (health, diet, weather, etc) to try to find a correlation to what causes the coughing up of these, but haven't found a logical relationship yet. Any one else have any thoughts/experiences?
Anyways, here goes.......
Some days I cough up alot of little chunks. Like hardened clumps of mucous (SO gross, I know). The weird thing is, it's either a chunk day or it isn't. Like on a regular day, the crap I cough up is smooth and fluid. Then on a chunk day, all I cough is these hard chunks. Does this happen to anyone else? Does anyone know if coughing these chunks is a good thing or a bad thing? My aunt works for a respirologist, and she says that he says it's a good thing because it shows that your lungs/muscles are strong enough to get these 'plugs' out. I personally don't think it's a good thing (or a very pleasant thing). Do you think different CFers have different amounts of these chunky plugs? Does everyone cough these up? I try to write down information on chunk days (health, diet, weather, etc) to try to find a correlation to what causes the coughing up of these, but haven't found a logical relationship yet. Any one else have any thoughts/experiences?