Quote Originally Posted by yochrono
So your suggestion is try to keep some of this phlegm or stuff that I am coughing up and give it my doctor?
Well, if you save it, you'd mostly be doing that to show them its color and get them to take your complaint seriously. They'll really need a fresh sample to look at the microbiology, so you'd have to provide that when you went in. Definitely suggest to them that, considering you're coughing up what looks like blood (here's where you can hold up the saved sample or handkerchief or tissues), you'd like them to look at the pathology under a microscope so they can prescribe the right medicines if you require any. Then offer to cough up a fresh sample for the lab.
Dave Byrd Reviewed by Dave Byrd on . Chest Problem Birdgirl Please Respond :S3: Early December I took myself to the hospital for sharp pains in my right side and also I was hacking up alot of brown phlegm like tar looking stuff. The doctor told me after a x-ray that it was just Pleurisy which is what was causing all the irritation in the first place along with possible Bronchitis. He prescribed me a anti-biotic and sent me on my way. About two weeks after the ER visit I started to get the same stuff happening again even after I had Rating: 5