Two days ago I visited my ENT who suggested I take Mucinex for the constant gagging on phlegm problems I've been having. He said Mucionex won't make the phlegm go awya but will help me be able to swallow some of it instead of throwing up.

I bought a bottle of Tussin with just Guafenisin (I think I spelled that right?) which is also the med in Mucinex, after finding that the Mucinex pills are large (thus making them very hard to swallow for me at this point) and have this odd coating on one side that doesn't make them good candidates for grinding up and sending down the PEG. I have been trying the Tussin for the last day and 1/2. It definitely produces less thick clumps of gunk in my throat and this was really an aid to keeping me asleep except when I needed to wake up to take pain meds last night.

But I did end up swallowing more of the more liquid phlegm as a result and then this morning ended up vomiting when other stuff I put down the tube met up with all that phlegm in my stomach (however, the stuff I put down was cranberry juice which is very acidic and wasn't a good choice probably. Next time I'll try a can of jevity first). And I'm still spitting phelgm, it's just more liquid. Whihc, it striked me, means I probably need to consume more water as a result.

So I have my doubts about thsi recommendation, although I'm going to try it for a few more days.

Does anyone else have experience with Mucinex or the cough syrups with the same stuff?

Then I met with my RO yesterday and he perscribed another medicine--Salagen--for my saliva. Hopefully waht is will do is great more good saliva when my mouth is dry--not more gunk.

I did a search on Saligen and found that a lot of you ahve tried it and didn't think it did much but few of you did find it helped--especially in the first few months after radiation. I am willing to give it a try but I'm not sure how it will work with the Mucinex. It strikes me they both are affgcting mouth secretions in some way and both seem to be about making things more moist one way or another.

In genral, I don't like being on lots of meds which may or may not actually be heloing things. Until these two new prescriptions, I was down to rising with saline and baking soda and keeping track of pain meds and meds for constripation and that was it. Now I have two new things to add and it's all seeming loike a lot to keep track of.

has anyone taken Saligen with Mucinex? Or have any other comments on their Saligen experience? They started me on the lowest dose of Saligen because I told my RO (and the ENT had recommended Saligen too) that I wasn't going to take it if it caused blurry vision. I can't do my job if I have blurry vision--that's too major a side effect. But they seemed to think that wasn't a common side effect.