Coughing up slug like mucus?

[Msknippknapp]

Two months ago I started wheezing when breathing in. I gave birth about 6 weeks ago and the wheezing became a cough. When the baby was about 4 weeks old, I went to urgent care and was prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis. They didn’t help at all.

I can deal with the wheezing, but 3 times now over the past 2 months I’ve started coughing hard and pulled up a thick, brown worm/slug like hard mucus that’s about 1.5 inches long and fairly thick. Directly after, I end up coughing up a small amount of orangish “regular” mucus. Otherwise, I haven’t coughed anything else up at all. Anyone know what this is? I can’t find anything online.

[Rita346810]

Hey, I know this is an old thread. Did you ever find out what you had? I am also experiencing this on and off throughout my pregnancy, multiple antibiotic rounds and it hasn’t gone away completely. Only thing that pulls up is plastic bronchitis—which requires ct scan or other procedures for concrete diagnosis.

[vicmath2k]

I am responding to this after almost exactly a year. Hope you are keeping well.
I suffered from limited breathing, lack of energy and sleeplessness from my childhood. By the time I was about 30 I was diagnosed as asthmatic and started taking asthma medication. The condition became progressively worse, leading to depression.
Then I started practicing something that induced my lungs to expel hardened mucus on a regular basis. This continued for about five years!
Once the lungs were clear of all this stuff (possibly exceeding 400 ml, that is two glasses!) I had absolutely no more asthma!
So, after I had virtually all of my hardened mucus expelled, and a fair amount of rancid liquid as well, it appears that all my lung issues have disappeared. No sleeplessness, no depression, no nothing! I jog for about 3 kilometers every day. Run even, with my German Shortgaired Pointer. I am 65.
In between I was diagnosed as having bronchiectasis. That seems to have sorted itself out as well. My doctor was startled enough to say that my recovery from bronchiectasis had been "dramatic"!
My e-mail vicmath2000, at gmail. Happy to provide more info.