ARDS / COPD :: Stopped Smoking - Improved Breathing But Throat Phlegm


Nov 21, 2014

I stopped smoking 11 days ago, went cold turkey after being told my copd is getting a lot worse, in just a few days my breathing has improved, what is annoying me is the last few days I keep wanting to clear my throat in bed its terrible can't sleep for the noises in my throat and keep trying to clear it, I am not bringing any phlegm up never really have in all the years I smoked, has anybody experienced this ?

View 1 Replies



Advertisement

Trouble Breathing - Cold, Cough And Phlegm Cutting Off My Chest

Recently got over a cold now I seem have this nasty may cough that is producing phlegm but it getting sick in my chest n thrust literally cutting of my airway.

View 3 Replies

COPD :: Feeling Better With Smoking

I foolishly went back to smoking a while back because I feel BETTER when I smoke. I stopped, but get tempted because my breathing is much better when I do! I know it is insane, but has anyone experienced this? When I quit My breathing was much worse. I think it has to do with waking up your lungs, clearing them out, so you become sob. But I swear when I did smoke, I felt fine! So crazy.

View 45 Replies

COPD (42 Years Old) And Smoking

I gave up smoking at new year, just over two years ago. My dad died from emphysema when he has 60, and i always said that if i ever got a cough that reminded me of my dad i would quit. It got to the point where i was coughing myself to sleep each night, and i realised this wasn't just a cold that was going away, so i set myself a smoking deadline of new year (this was in the autumn) and did just that. Well 90% of my cough went away virtually overnight, but i was left with a niggly throat clearing thing, which wasn't too much hassle. Felt pretty good, and pleased with myself. So anyway, a couple of weeks ago i was doing a meditation app, and the instruction was to take a deep breath and hold it. It kind of took me by surprise, and the next day my back was hurting. So i made an appointment for the docs and she booked me in for a chest x ray and prescribed me a peak flow meter and some ventolin. 3 times a day i have to do a best of 3 reading, take two puffs of ventolin, then twenty mins later do another best of 3 reading. After three days of doing so i'm feeling constantly breathless, worse than i ever did, i still have that pain in the left side of my back, and i am sure now that indeed i have emphysema like my dad. I feel like crying all the time yet i'm putting a brave face on for everyone. I don't have any kids, and my boyfriend still smokes in the house. I try not to be around it, bit it's only a small house and difficult to avoid. He didn't see the long horrible death my dad had, both his parents are still fit and healthy. My morning peak flow reading is 350 and the other two (noon and night) are roughly 370 with hardly any difference from the ventolin except i think its giving me a dry throat. I guess my question is, has anyone else had COPD from age 40 and still lived a long time? How bearable is it? Because my dad carried on smoking quite far into his (he gave up when he went on oxygen) i'm finding it hard to expect anything different than he got. Also is it possible for the peak flow tests to be making me breathless?

View 32 Replies

COPD :: Damage From 5 Years Of Smoking

Had chest xray done .I have no cough slight out of breath has I have asthma. doctor's have now told me I have mild change if my lung copd.when I asked does this mean I have the decease she said it might just be from the damage from smoking all those years ago.am so worried and stressed.  does this mean this is the beginning of a death sentence? not sleeping or eating.

View 35 Replies

COPD :: Quitting Smoking After 48 Years

I have just been diagnosed with stage 2 copd (emphysema). I have smoked for 48 years. I am 65 and told I have lungs of a 95 year old. I am struggling to stop smoking. If I cannot how fast will my progression be.

View 29 Replies

COPD :: Anyone Get Sore Throat?

Anyone get sore throat? I have a bad one. I read that it could turn into strep? Or just common? Remedies at all?

View 12 Replies

Pregnancy :: Smoking - How Many Weeks Before Your Stopped?

I'm just wondering how many weeks all the smokers were when you stopped smoking?

View 14 Replies

Stopped Smoking Six Months Back - Still Indigestion And Breathlessness

How are all you non smokers doing. I have just past the six month mark. Still feeling a bit rubbish with indigestion and breathlessness. Going to doctors tomorrow hope I can get some help as inhaler does nothing at all. 

View 5 Replies

Breathing Problems With Smoking Weed?

Can you have breathing problems from smoking weed?

View 1 Replies

Stopped Smoking :: Digestive Upset, Hives And Shortness Of Breath

I smoked my last cigarette on September 12th.  I hate not smoking.  I hate the 40 lb. weight gain, the digestive upset, the hives, the shortness of breath, waking up at night in tears and panic, crying over the smallest thing, the boredom, not having anything to do when I take a break.  Nothing smells good, nothing tastes good.  My skin and hair now have a rancid smell that won't wash off and makes me nauseous.  My complexion is a pasty gray like unbaked pie dough.  Friends say I smell bad and am embarrassing to be around.

If this is what non-smokers experience every day, I don't know how they stand it.  Life used to be good; now it's a never-ending nightmare with new aches and symptoms of sickness showing up every day.   

I'd like to find the person who convinced me to do this and hurt them.
 

View 5 Replies

Cannabis :: Breathing Problems After Smoking Weed

this hasn't happened before even though i don't smoke weed that often, but it's been a couple days since i smoked and it still feels like there's a bubble in my throat all the time and sometimes it feels like its hard to breath and i freak out.

View 14 Replies

Throat :: Trouble Breathing And Swallowing

i have trouble breathing and swallowing well just swallowing can anybody help me figure out whats wrong?

View 1 Replies

Anxiety :: Knot In My Throat And Trouble Breathing

I want to see what symptoms everyone else has had and maybe you will find someone who has had the same!

Mine:

Blurred vision

Trouble breathing

Knot in my throat

Racing heart 190 BPM

Heart flutters so so so any

Headaches

Claminess

Sweats

Pale skin

Trembling

Disoriented

Dazed

Lights in my eyes

Ears ringing

Ear fullness

Being scared all day

Fatigue

Empty minded

Nightmares

Chest tightness

Hand numbness

Mind you I'm only 26 and have been checked from head to toe and told this is all anxiety

View 44 Replies

Cannabis (weed) :: Trouble Breathing Yawning Helps - Something In Throat

20 yrs old I smoke a lot of weed. But have never had problems before now all of a sudden I have to take in deep breaths or yawn to get enough air. I haven't ever had breathing problems before and I don't know what it could be I've read a lot about stress and really can't think of anything that could have stressed me out and caused this.

View 1 Replies

Quitting Smoking After 3 Years - Feeling Lump In Throat

I'm 15 years old... and i've been smoking since i was 12.. i am quitting, but since yesterday i have had this really bad pain in my throat, it feels like there is a lump of some sort, that won't go away, but then today, i woke up with the same throat pain (but worse) it hurts to breath in, it also hurts my left shoulder blade/ arm when i breath in, my nose, and occasionally my chest.. I am having a really hard time breathing, and i'm really scared. help?

View 1 Replies

Anxiety :: Cold Sensation In Nose And Throat When Breathing In Through Nose?

i'm having really bad anxiety about this and it goes away when i don't think about it or focus on it, could this just be a side effect of anxiety?

View 3 Replies

Barrett's Oesophagus :: Coughing Up A Lot Of Phlegm And Mucus

But I don't know if this is connected but for the last month I have been very chesty and coughing up a lot of phlegm and mucus

View 1 Replies

Anxiety :: Manual Breathing. OCD Breathing Obsession

Anyone out there have to deal with this?

View 1 Replies

Bronchiectasis :: Yellow Phlegm With Darker Yellow Flecks In Cough

I currently have a chest infection an am on antibiotics . Today I coughed up yellow phlegm with darker yellow flecks in after doing my physio.

View 3 Replies

Acid Reflux :: GERD? Throat Spasm, Lump In Throat, Lungs Feel Tight

I have been suffering with this for two weeks and I have no idea which symptoms may be connected to my newly acquired TMJ or my flare up of GERD.

Two weeks ago after a heavy meal and a few days after damaging my jaw I woke up in the night with a weird throat spasm and feeling like I had something stuck in my throat. Then over the weeks I started to get the lump feeling through the day with difficulty swallowing. I lost half a stone due to being unable to eat.

Now I have developed a tight chest, dry throat and lungs, feeling like my lungs are blocked, constant throat clearing with little mucous production, breathing difficulty and I'm still having these nightly throat spasms and lump feeling. I had some of my sons ventolin inhaler as I had asthma as a child and thought the reflux could be causing this but it did nothing.

I have been to A and E lots of times with it and also to my GP who has referred me for an endoscopy but its only in february.

I am going out of my mind. The breathing issue happened after a load of acid came up my throat a few nights ago and it felt like my throat and lungs were dried out by it.

View 4 Replies





Copyrights 2005-15 www.bigresource.org, All rights reserved