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Persistent Phlegm in Throat
by TheLeeWay, Apr 08, 2008 08:42AM
I'm 18 years old, don't smoke nor live around smokers, and have no blood history of pulmonary ailments like asthma, etc.
Still, I was diagnosed with tuberculosis last December 2006 and took prescribed medication until June 2007. I thought I was problem-free from then on, but recently (around March 20, 2008), I've had trouble with excessive coughing and extremely adhesive yellowish-green phlegm for almost 2 weeks. Then for the next seven days, I took an antibiotic and Endorsteine(?) Zertin (through a friend's recommendation) which was medication for acute bronchitis though I was only 75% sure that my condition was even bronchitis.
But since then my phlegm has cleared up to a normal-looking white and I no longer cough nor feel the urge to.
But now my problem is this: a week after medication, I constantly feel the presence of sticky phlegm in the back of my throat. Coughing doesn't get it out, spitting only hurts my throat (except for a very controlled kind of spit which is very noisy and embarrassing to do in public) and it ends up expelling only little phlegm.
I'm wondering if it's possible that my tuberculosis has recurred somehow (to my extreme horror) or that my bronchitis is really something else? I've been told that it is possible for me to develop asthma; is this true?
But I do know and feel the presence of a lot of persistent phlegm in my throat that I have no idea how to get rid of. It doesn't come from my lungs nor my nasal passages; it's just ever-present in my throat and that's what's annoying me.
Any help on the right kind of medication that can loosen this phlegm up? I've tried Carbosisteine(?) plenty of times but it can't seem to do the trick.
My, these lungs sure are giving me lots of trouble.
Still, I was diagnosed with tuberculosis last December 2006 and took prescribed medication until June 2007. I thought I was problem-free from then on, but recently (around March 20, 2008), I've had trouble with excessive coughing and extremely adhesive yellowish-green phlegm for almost 2 weeks. Then for the next seven days, I took an antibiotic and Endorsteine(?) Zertin (through a friend's recommendation) which was medication for acute bronchitis though I was only 75% sure that my condition was even bronchitis.
But since then my phlegm has cleared up to a normal-looking white and I no longer cough nor feel the urge to.
But now my problem is this: a week after medication, I constantly feel the presence of sticky phlegm in the back of my throat. Coughing doesn't get it out, spitting only hurts my throat (except for a very controlled kind of spit which is very noisy and embarrassing to do in public) and it ends up expelling only little phlegm.
I'm wondering if it's possible that my tuberculosis has recurred somehow (to my extreme horror) or that my bronchitis is really something else? I've been told that it is possible for me to develop asthma; is this true?
But I do know and feel the presence of a lot of persistent phlegm in my throat that I have no idea how to get rid of. It doesn't come from my lungs nor my nasal passages; it's just ever-present in my throat and that's what's annoying me.
Any help on the right kind of medication that can loosen this phlegm up? I've tried Carbosisteine(?) plenty of times but it can't seem to do the trick.
My, these lungs sure are giving me lots of trouble.
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