Hello,
I have had an undiagnosed breathing problem off and on since 1995. My symptoms are shortness of breath, wheezing on exhale, hacking up of clear mucous that is perfectly tube shaped. There was a brief two year period where it went away and came back strong in 2001 and has been worsening ever since. I am a non-smoker and do not have asthma. PFT testing has been normal. Ct's and Xrays have not shown anything significant. I have been prescribed just about every inhaler known to man, including Advair and those do not help. I have recently been put on a Mucomyst treatment twice daily and that has helped some, but not much. It seems like I can breathe in deeply, but get no benefit from the breath. The best way to describe it is that my lungs feel like they weigh 100 pounds. They just always feel very heavy. I was hoping someone might have similar symptoms and had a diagnosis. It was recently suggested by my specialist that I might have plastic bronchitis, but after reading the material he gave me, not so sure. Thanks.