wheezing stenosis?

[LisaT]

I would say it is much better to use the liquid guaifenesin WITHOUT the dextramethorphan! That stuff has a rebound effect of making the cough worse after a few days. The plain guaifenesin will loosen up the mucus and make coughs more productive, so that ultimately, there is less collecting in there to cough up, and it takes less coughing to do it. You'll just have to look a little harder to find the guaifenesin without the DM. Rite Aid and Walgreens have it in their house brand, and it is called "Tussin" or "expectorant". I think Robitussin also makes it, and a brand in Canada that has been mentioned on here.

Benylin mucous and phlegm. The key is you want the expectorant without cough suppressant. I think they work at cross purposes. Guaifenesin should be the only active ingredient.

[LisaT]

I have been suffering from wheezing pretty much since I started to show signs of sinus infections, I also feels like someone covers my mouth and plugs my nose at the same time...cant take a breathe and I wheeze a fair amount. Mind you it comes and goes and can not find a common factor on when it happens. After a tons of lung tests, heart tests, ect....my lung specialist feels that due to the post nasal drip and the mucus my vocal cords are not functioning properly which would result in what I describe to her. I don't feel out of breathe when it happens just a sudden gasp for air. You can do physiotherapy for vocal cords although it sounds less than a good time. Mostly when it starts I try to sit down and calm myself until it stops. But the wheezing is a pretty constant thing.

This is how I felt before meds and it turned out that I had subglottic stenosis. Have they scoped your throat to check for that? Also they should have checked the tiny joints that move the vocal cords. These can be immobilized in rheumatoid arthritis sufferers... Since there's so much overlap in autoimmune diseases I would ask if they've looked at that. Do you have a hoarse voice or laryngitis?

[LisaT]

The steamer sounds good. I have one, too, but the resevoir is a little small and I find the bowl and towel method to be more satisfactory. Yours might be a better design. I with i could answer your question about anemia, but I don't know much about it. It doesn't seem to be a problem that I have.

When I was having the worst of my stenosis/coughing/wheezing/choking troubles, I found warm steam made me feel like I couldn't get air. Cool humidifier and nebulizer with saline worked better for me. Drinking warm tea also helped, but inhaling warm air made me feel as though I was suffocating. I've been told by paramedics when my kids used to get croup that cool mist opens up the airways more. Sometimes just stepping outside into cool moist air helped me in addition to the other fixes.

[annekat]

Benylin mucous and phlegm. The key is you want the expectorant without cough suppressant. I think they work at cross purposes. Guaifenesin should be the only active ingredient.

I've seen you Canadians mention that brand, but I haven't seen it here in the places where I shop. So I go for the drugstore house brands, making sure that DM is not on the label!

[cutehair2013]

subglottic stenosis I can not say that I have heard that before but sounds worth looking into....I have the whole have hoarse voice thing going on all the time and I am constantly clearing my throat, I sound like I am a 30 year smoker in the morning..my wife says I am bring sexy back some days...lol It's awful

[mrtmeo]

We will be going to a laryngologist next week to see if her throat wheezing is due to vasculitis in her throat.
I will update when we find out.

[mrtmeo]

Didn't make it to the laryngologist this week due to imuran causing nausea, so next week.
Now, she had what sounds like a chunk of mucus in her throat when she coughs instead of the typical post nasal drip.
She is not able to cough this out and can only swallow it.
She has MPA and not GPA, so I don't know why she has this, but I have heard of some people having both.

[Psyborg]

They are pretty closely related, just slightly different affected blood vessels.

[mrtmeo]

She coughed up a huge glob and feels better.
This happened a few hours after using MusinexDM 1200mg.
I had given her just the 400mg guifensen and maybe it broke it up.

[mrtmeo]

Anne was right.
The Guaifensin (only) works to get out the mucus blob in the back of the throat.
My mom hacked another blob up, so there must be some kind of infectious or inflammation process going on in the sinus or a little lower.
Thanks again Anne!