mucus

  1. N

    my dad is tortured with saliva/mucus - need advice...

    He wakes up in the middle of the night choking on saliva and nothing helps. I mean - the only thing he tries is cough it out, and of course this doesn't help. His doctor - an anestesiologist with no experience with bulbar ALS, doesn't have any advice. My dad suffers so much he now often says he...
  2. B

    frighten and foolish back

    my last thread was closed I have been going round and round with notorious twitches and feet achy weirdness for a while below is time lin nov16 bilateral feet feel strange jan 17 emg diagnosed with neuropathy with normal ncv may17 emg diagnosed with sensimotor poloneurapthy with normal ncv aug...
    • Becazican
    • Thread
    • als anxiety back bfs bulbar diagnosed emg fasciculations ice life mucus neurologist onset problem research sad scared swallow swallowing symptom test tongue twitches weakness
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Could this be ALS?
  3. C

    s ared about bulbar onset

    Hi First i would let you know english is not my first language. I read a lot of your post like everyday everytime and i totally support you. My story is 1- in septemver i had a lots of burning calves and when i watched at them i can saw and feel the fasciculations only in them for 1 month.I...
    • chrismontreal
    • Thread
    • abdomen arm atrophy back bulbar bulbar onset burning crying eating emg fasciculations food mucus muscle nose onset scared story support symptoms test tongue wrong
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Could this be ALS?
  4. N

    would the peg help with saliva/mucus problems?

    Hi All, My bulbar onset dad who refuses a peg has more and more problems with not being able to cough out whatever bothers him in his throat, or deeper than throat, and also with saliva or mucus - I am not sure he knows which one is the bigger problem; he seems to think it's saliva, and its...
    • NotMyDad
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    • breathing breathing problems bulbar bulbar onset choking cough assist dad eating food mucus night nose onset peg problems saliva sleep
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Current caregivers
  5. chally

    Effervescent Acetylcysteine

    Anyone heard of taken this for the mucus? Tx chally
  6. C

    Concerned about my father

    My father has had an on going issue wirh his speech, hes been slurring his words since about Feb '17 and even at 1 point his boss asked if hes been drinking, fast forward now and he still struggles to speak, he has alot of excess mucus and constantly has to spit because of this. He's also choked...
  7. jethro

    Do shizophrenia and ALS have same roots, so it can be treatead the same way?

    i found articles... https://sg.news.yahoo.com/schizophrenia-drug-could-treat-als-101803085.html any comments? i think that having ALS is a kind of license to do everything with ourselves, so why dont we try? i am the first one to try.
  8. L

    Eating Food with Vent/Trach

    My boyfriend is newly on vent/trach. At the hospital we were told by an MD that he will not be allowed to eat or drink again (he has a feeding tube). At the L-Tach rehab the speech therapist gave him mashed potatoes and he aspirated them and then got pneumonia. He eventually went to...
  9. Inventor

    No inner cannula in trache

    My trache was installed six weeks ago and changed four weeks ago. It is a soft seal cuff model that comes with an inner cannula. However, the inner cannula was not installed in the hospital nor was I given any instructions regarding it. Wondering if lack of an inner cannula might have some...
  10. Inventor

    Mucus Separator for the cough assist device

    I got fed up with phlegm filling up the cough assist device tube. Link.
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