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So for the last like 10~ years, at least once or twice a year I will have this happen.
It's usually passed midnight, maybe more like 1:30-2:30. I'll be laying in bed watching a movie or sleeping. And I will all the sudden have wheezing and shortness of breath, coughing out this light yellow phlegm. It maybe lasts 15-30 minutes where I'm all fucked up and keep hocking loogies. Eventually I get back to sleep even though my throat is now a bit sore and my breathing is still abnormal.
I wake up in the morning (feels like I didn't get good sleep for sure) still hocking up the (now more clear white) shit and for the rest of the day I'll keep coughing to sort of clear my throat or whatever. I've also had a headache all day but I think that might be unrelated, or just aggravated by it.
Originally when it started happening, I thought it was my exgf's goosefeather pillows and the microparticles poking into my throat/lungs (because that is what it feels like), cuz they sort of 'fluff out' of the pillows. Years later I realized it was nothing to do with that. It's also worth mentioning that this has happened in a number of places, my rooms (I've moved quite a bit), friends houses, exgfs' houses etc. Iirc, it seems to happen more often in the summer, but the last time it happened it was after Thanksgiving. I don't think it has anything to do with what I've eaten because my diet is largely the same from day to day throughout the years. Oh and I live in So Cal and the windows are always open.
Anyone else have something similar happen? Any tips or advices?
PS- Just this last year I started to run more, and whenever I run outdoors it seems to hurt my lungs like they can't take it while my body feels like it can run wayyy longer. And this doesn't happen when I run on the treadmills in 24/hr fitness. So I'm suspecting some sort of outdoor allergy I am developing.
 
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go to a doctor.
also, dont die.
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United States10302 Posts
if you have this, you should immediately fucking go see a doctor instead of posting a blog on TL. bluntly, a massive majority of us arent doctors and cant diagnose your illness. go see a doctor. like. right now.
you better come back to us. id hate if you randomly have some weird lung cancer shit.
good luck and good health.
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Could be anything from a Lung Infection to a Chest infection. By the sounds of it though this is happening for a long time and only once or twice a year, so if your asthmatic it could just be a reaction to that.
By the PS statement i think you could quite be Asthmatic. Go to the Dr though im sure he can say whether your Asthmatic or actually have a Lung/Chest infection or even another form of something i don't know about.
Coughing up phlegm is bad though especially when it isn't green (booger colour).
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You don't smoke do you?
This sounds like cystic fybrosis symptoms honestly but I'm assuming you would know if you had that
:/ idk
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Yeah im sure he would know if he had that surely? That disease is REALLY bad?
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This?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise-induced_bronchoconstriction
It might be expected that the athlete with E.I.B. would present with shortness of breath, and/or an elevated respiratory rate and wheezing, consistent with an asthma attack. However, many will present with decreased stamina, or difficulty in recovering from exertion compared to team members, or paroxysmal coughing from an irritable airway.
(Though it's weird that it presents at night, contact your doctor anyway).
I'm a runner too, and though I never had lung symptoms, sometimes my heart starts racing weirdly fast for no apparent reason, which subsides after like 15-20 seconds. I guess getting used to physical stress sometimes makes body do weird things.
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Luckily for you Chalz, I like you, and my post count pretty much qualifies me to give advice on anything really. This sounds like smoker's cough!! You can get it from chiba too. It could be a simple allergen such as mold, pollen, etc. All those counts go up and down each day, so some days your eyes can feel like they're going to explode in your skull and your lungs will feel like they're on fire, and others you'll be fine
My qualified advice for you is to go see a more qualified doctor.
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On July 31 2013 00:00 wingpawn wrote:This? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise-induced_bronchoconstrictionShow nested quote +It might be expected that the athlete with E.I.B. would present with shortness of breath, and/or an elevated respiratory rate and wheezing, consistent with an asthma attack. However, many will present with decreased stamina, or difficulty in recovering from exertion compared to team members, or paroxysmal coughing from an irritable airway. (Though it's weird that it presents at night, contact your doctor anyway). I'm a runner too, and though I never had lung symptoms, sometimes my heart starts racing weirdly fast for no apparent reason, which subsides after like 15-20 seconds. I guess getting used to physical stress sometimes makes body do weird things.
you can have a heart anomaly like me.
In the recovery phase after exercise my heart usually goes fast. And very rarely it starts racing randomly and makes me feel very terrible until it recovers.
It has to do with signals to heartmuscles not going the right way.
just let a heartspecialist test it, better than dying randomly in your 30s.
The tricky thing for me was that i always had it and thought its normal, they discovered my condition randomly when the army did test me.
To the op, why dont you ask your doctor for a blood allergy test. allergies can get worse and then you suddenly have asthma for half the year when you could have just got like 5 injections over 2 months and have the allergy removed.
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On July 31 2013 00:12 LaNague wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2013 00:00 wingpawn wrote:This? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise-induced_bronchoconstrictionIt might be expected that the athlete with E.I.B. would present with shortness of breath, and/or an elevated respiratory rate and wheezing, consistent with an asthma attack. However, many will present with decreased stamina, or difficulty in recovering from exertion compared to team members, or paroxysmal coughing from an irritable airway. (Though it's weird that it presents at night, contact your doctor anyway). I'm a runner too, and though I never had lung symptoms, sometimes my heart starts racing weirdly fast for no apparent reason, which subsides after like 15-20 seconds. I guess getting used to physical stress sometimes makes body do weird things. you can have a heart anomaly like me. In the recovery phase after exercise my heart usually goes fast. And very rarely it starts racing randomly and makes me feel very terrible until it recovers. It has to do with signals to heartmuscles not going the right way. just let a heartspecialist test it, better than dying randomly in your 30s. The tricky thing for me was that i always had it and thought its normal, they discovered my condition randomly when the army did test me.
Hm, perhaps I should. The thing is, normally I have low BP (my family has a history of it) and feel like shit, so getting through such thing actually makes me feel a bit better. Plus I have no symptoms after excercising at all, only like random episodes approximately once in two months. I've always assumed those were just some weird anxiety attacks...
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Dude, just go to a doctor, it'll solve all those problems haha.
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Like the above have mentioned, go see a doctor. Wheezing isn't to my knowledge related to anxiety usually.
And as someone with asthma, i've had the experience of waking up late wheezing and shortness of breath and will use ventolin if required but not the extra symptoms that you mention.
"Ahem", go to a doctor.
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On July 31 2013 00:05 QuanticHawk wrote:
Luckily for you Chalz, I like you, and my post count pretty much qualifies me to give advice on anything really. This sounds like smoker's cough!! You can get it from chiba too. It could be a simple allergen such as mold, pollen, etc. All those counts go up and down each day, so some days your eyes can feel like they're going to explode in your skull and your lungs will feel like they're on fire, and others you'll be fine
My qualified advice for you is to go see a more qualified doctor.
I don't regularly smoke. I smoke sometimes when I am drinking which is anywhere from 8-2 times a month, where I'll have a couple puffs or a couple cigs, or a few hits off one of those vape pens (but these are relatively new anyways). And I don't smoke weed or anything else.
I don't have the means to go to a doctor unless I go spend all day or a couple of all days at some free county hospital or a college far away. These allergy attacks aren't that serious, they are just a nuisance for less than a day when they randomly happen.
I think the night running in the cold while breathing through the mouth and not warming the air sufficiently is part of the cause for that issue.
I guess it's also worth mentioning that a couple of times in my life, I've had really bad, itchy, watery eyes for a day. So whatever allergy I have it takes a lot of whatever it is and it's rare and just fucks with me, it's not life threatening.
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On July 31 2013 05:04 MarlieChurphy wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2013 00:05 QuanticHawk wrote:
Luckily for you Chalz, I like you, and my post count pretty much qualifies me to give advice on anything really. This sounds like smoker's cough!! You can get it from chiba too. It could be a simple allergen such as mold, pollen, etc. All those counts go up and down each day, so some days your eyes can feel like they're going to explode in your skull and your lungs will feel like they're on fire, and others you'll be fine
My qualified advice for you is to go see a more qualified doctor. I don't regularly smoke. I smoke sometimes when I am drinking which is anywhere from 8-2 times a month, where I'll have a couple puffs or a couple cigs, or a few hits off one of those vape pens (but these are relatively new anyways). And I don't smoke weed or anything else. I don't have the means to go to a doctor unless I go spend all day or a couple of all days at some free county hospital or a college far away. These allergy attacks aren't that serious, they are just a nuisance for less than a day when they randomly happen. I think the night running in the cold while breathing through the mouth and not warming the air sufficiently is part of the cause for that issue.
I'd consider hitting up one of those hospitals.
But if you're looking for poor person advice, you could start checking allergen counts daily for your area, and keep a log of when these things happen. That's a safe and free way of trying to pinpoint what is wrong. See if your place is dusty too... dust is brutal for me. dustmites can be a bitch too.
as far as running, it could be you breathing wrong, you not being used to running a lot yet (i get this when I start up soccer again after a long layoff over winter) ... so maybe that goes away with time.
also, ianad, but from my own experience, colored phlegm = bacteria or virus usually, while clear but thick and annoying is allergies
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Oh right, I read that late summer that dustmites get out of hand and cause a lot of issues with people. That's actually what it might be. Every time I clean out the dust from my PC it is pretty bothersome, but not to this extreme.
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dust your room, move your bed and get under there, do your blinds, clean your a/c filter (this is a big one) your couch etc etc
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Ain't nobawdy got time fo dat
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I actually just washed my blinds and am washing my sheets and shit right now. And I recently cleaned the fuck out of my room from fleas and other bugs. I need to clean my pc and the wall thing if I can.
Oh yea btw, look what this spider did to me last august (I still have scars from it). Pretty sure it was a combination of the venom and an allergic reaction (maybe the spider had some shit all stuck in his hairs)
![[image loading]](http://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/416858_3888441654599_1703932146_n.jpg)
I eventually caught him and spider boarded him for a day then released him back into the garden.
![[image loading]](http://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/527351_3888443294640_1646708005_n.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidippus_audax
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dude that dont look like know jumping spider, and you should have responded to his hostile actions like any proud american would: shock and awe that mother fucker with a lighter and some flammable spray
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On August 01 2013 13:26 QuanticHawk wrote:
dude that dont look like know jumping spider, and you should have responded to his hostile actions like any proud american would: shock and awe that mother fucker with a lighter and some flammable spray
I had an opportune moment. There was a dead fly in the window sill. The kind of fly that looks alive but just died there standing.
So I dropped it in that cd case with the spider all night and the next day when I went to work. I watched as the spider lunged and attacked the fly over and over. Came back, he was still randomly doing it. I figured it was a sort of torturous thing to do that was worse than death. Then I released him in the garden, hoping he would go kill some shit.
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