Blood in the coughed-up mucous is normal, if it's only a bit of blood and not some drastic amount. Your whole throat is raw and in fact it is amazing that more people don't have lots of bloody mucous.

If you are not taking guafenesin to thin your mucous, give it a try. Either the Mucinex tablets (guafensenin only, NO antihistamine) or the readily-available syrup will work. The tablets are time-release so help for 12 hours BUT they are big things that cannot be cut or ground up so if you can't get them down, try the syrup. The latter will burn if you take it neat as it's strong stuff -- the important thing is getting the dose inside you so dilute it in about 4 oz. water and take it that way. The syrup has to be taken every 4 hours, again guafensein ONLY and NO antihistamine.

Our RO didn't know about Mucinex, his RO nurse who had come from MD Anderson did -- he saw how it helped many (not all) so now recommends it to everyone with mucous issues.

Gail