Coughing Up black/ gray mucus *Warning, Photo's of said mucus inside*

Happens to me once a year.

But my dad flies internationally and gets bootleg "Z pack's" in China. Three pills and everythings dead

furnz said:

Noticed this more so when I quit smoking cigs.
Major lung clean out for month or so.
Also get it hour or two after bong/grav rips, and in the shower in the morning.
All my friends cough the same shit up too..

It's not a secret that resin gets in your lungs. Vape, bong, dab, or joint, all resins up your lungs.
Look in the inside of my gravity bong, probably a 1/4 inch of resin lol
Now think of how much of that made it to my lung..
Seeing black stuff means your lung is functioning and cleaning out the resins.

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Same here. I've quit cigarettes a few time but the last time was about 3 years ago (still cig free). Every time I've quit though, there was a period afterwards where I'd cough up of excessive amounts of brown/ gray phlegm. I always took it as a sign that my lungs were healing and expelling all the crap.

AllenHaze said:

Same here. I've quit cigarettes a few time but the last time was about 3 years ago (still cig free). Every time I've quit though, there was a period afterwards where I'd cough up of excessive amounts of brown/ gray phlegm. I always took it as a sign that my lungs were healing and expelling all the crap.

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yeah and when somebody smokes everyday all the gunk stays on your lungs

For the record fresh blood is red, dried blood is black. Dried blood is a very bad sign.

texasjack said:

For the record fresh blood is red, dried blood is black. Dried blood is a very bad sign.

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its tar not dried blood though

Mr. Bongwater said:

its tar not dried blood though

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That happens to me. I've read that weed has a lot more tar than cigarettes. I've heard numbers of up to 4x more tar. On top of this, there's a good chance that you are slightly allergic to smoke (all kinds), so your body produces more mucus when you smoke weed in an effort to catch the foreign particles. You're seeing your body's defenses in action. Users with a smoke allergy (however mild it may be) AND acid reflux will have it the worst because both will cause excess mucus in the throat.

I've even gone to a pulmonologist (lung doctor), and he wasn't worried at all. He ran lots of tests and in the end he made it seem like it was common for smokers (weed and tobacco) to cough up brown/grey/black phlegm. Just because it doesn't happen to your buddies doesn't mean that it's anything serious. Your system is less tolerant of those foreign particles so your system produces mucus to catch them and then gives you the urge to cough it out. Meanwhile, your buddies have all that tar just sitting in their lungs. While weed isn't known to cause cancer, ANY form of smoking (including weed) can cause breathing problems such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Think of it this way: A weed pipe gets dirty as hell, why wouldn't your lungs be the same way?

TakeTheTicket said:

That happens to me. I've read that weed has a lot more tar than cigarettes. I've heard numbers of up to 4x more tar. On top of this, there's a good chance that you are slightly allergic to smoke (all kinds), so your body produces more mucus when you smoke weed in an effort to catch the foreign particles. You're seeing your body's defenses in action. Users with a smoke allergy (however mild it may be) AND acid reflux will have it the worst because both will cause excess mucus in the throat.

I've even gone to a pulmonologist (lung doctor), and he wasn't worried at all. He ran lots of tests and in the end he made it seem like it was common for smokers (weed and tobacco) to cough up brown/grey/black phlegm. Just because it doesn't happen to your buddies doesn't mean that it's anything serious. Your system is less tolerant of those foreign particles so your system produces mucus to catch them and then gives you the urge to cough it out. Meanwhile, your buddies have all that tar just sitting in their lungs. While weed isn't known to cause cancer, ANY form of smoking (including weed) can cause breathing problems such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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weed defiantly leaves rezin in your lungs (maybe hes just coughing up rezin my friend used to cough up the same shit) but cigs leave a lot more harmful shit behind

Mr. Bongwater said:

weed defiantly leaves rezin in your lungs (maybe hes just coughing up rezin my friend used to cough up the same shit) but cigs leave a lot more harmful shit behind

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I completely agree that weed is FAR less likely to cause cancer than tobacco, but it is not innocuous. I think it's great that two states have legalized weed because now a lot more research can be done. A lot of users like to think that weed is just a safe as water and that just isn't true. It's relatively safer than a lot of other things and isn't known to interact with other drugs/medicines but it does take a toll on the human body even when vaporized and eaten.
For example: People with certain heart conditions are advised not to use weed because of the effect it has on the cardiovascular system.

TakeTheTicket said:

I completely agree that weed is FAR less likely to cause cancer than tobacco, but it is not innocuous. I think it's great that two states have legalized weed because now a lot more research can be done. A lot of users like to think that weed is just a safe as water and that just isn't true. It's relatively safer than a lot of other things and isn't known to interact with other drugs/medicines but it does take a toll on the human body even when vaporized and eaten.
For example: People with certain heart conditions are advised not to use weed because of the effect it has on the cardiovascular system.

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yeah, plus inhaling any kind of smoke isn't good for your lungs, i do believe its medicine meant to be made into food

Ive only ever smoked weed and i have emphysema from it. Anyone is better off w edibles. Smoking anything over time can cause it.

I've smoked for 11 years now, about 7 or 8 of them daily, and about 6 years heavy (4-10 bowls a day) and I started coughing up grey specled mucus maybe 5 years ago. It worried me a little, but I've been checked out by doctors multiple times and they never hear anything in my lungs that worries them. I had an xray maybe 5 or 6 years ago and it was fine. Though I am about to get an xray in the next week for the first time since, so I'll update you on my status. Doctor didn't hear anything worrysome this time either, but I've been having chest pains, so he decided to get an xray after i told him I smoke pot "just to make sure" nothing is wrong. And for a while smoking brought the burning on worse than it was without smoking, but since I started taking tums a few days ago it doesn't hurt, or definitely hurts less other times after tums, so I'm thinking its just acid reflux due to the h-pylori bacteria I found out I have. I've read other folks experience heartburn from smoking, too. But I definitely feel like my lungs have buildup so I am switching to vaping (quitting until I can afford one) and gonna work on some home remedies for clearing lungs out. I think it makes sense that it's tar. I remember reading once about a guy who had tightness in his lung and one time at the doctors office they did something that made him cough and he literally coughed up a big cloud of smoke. The little airways can get clogged up w resin so parts can get isolated... Which isn't good, i would assume. Anyway I'll update with my status as I work on this chest tightness and pain

Weed turns your glass pipes and bongs a brownish color in a very short amount of time. That same buildup happens in your lungs. Stop smoking everything (weed, tobacco, everything) for a few months and it will go away. BTW avoid synthetic weed like the plague. I work in a hospital doing X-Rays and CT scans and that synthetic pot stuff that kids buy in smoke shops is very dangerous. If it doesn't kill you it turns the inside of your lungs into what looks like black peppercorn. I've seen it a few times first hand during organ donation operations from very young people 18-25 who have died due to a reaction to that fake weed. When they handled one kid's lung as they were removing it, it sounded like a candy bar wrapper being crinkled. Obviously they didn't donate that kid's lungs.

Kornelija Earthling said:

I've smoked for 11 years now, about 7 or 8 of them daily, and about 6 years heavy (4-10 bowls a day) and I started coughing up grey specled mucus maybe 5 years ago. It worried me a little, but I've been checked out by doctors multiple times and they never hear anything in my lungs that worries them. I had an xray maybe 5 or 6 years ago and it was fine. Though I am about to get an xray in the next week for the first time since, so I'll update you on my status. Doctor didn't hear anything worrysome this time either, but I've been having chest pains, so he decided to get an xray after i told him I smoke pot "just to make sure" nothing is wrong. And for a while smoking brought the burning on worse than it was without smoking, but since I started taking tums a few days ago it doesn't hurt, or definitely hurts less other times after tums, so I'm thinking its just acid reflux due to the h-pylori bacteria I found out I have. I've read other folks experience heartburn from smoking, too. But I definitely feel like my lungs have buildup so I am switching to vaping (quitting until I can afford one) and gonna work on some home remedies for clearing lungs out. I think it makes sense that it's tar. I remember reading once about a guy who had tightness in his lung and one time at the doctors office they did something that made him cough and he literally coughed up a big cloud of smoke. The little airways can get clogged up w resin so parts can get isolated... Which isn't good, i would assume. Anyway I'll update with my status as I work on this chest tightness and pain

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Time to start using a vaporizer !

My "lung butter" has literally vanished since I switched from combustion to pure vaping. I couple of times since the switch-over I've sipped on a joint/spliff with friends at a concert or taken a bong rip at a party and found that the dark grey mucus quickly reappeared the next day

Old thread but relevant! I quit cigs two years ago but smoke ALOT -O_ Weed erry day, day in day out and have started coughing up black nastys. I'm going to finally spend the money for a vape. :YAY:

Mate , how you feeling ?
Hope you better !!
I posted this morning a Thread under medicating , where you can share all your health problems and if smoke helped or what you done to help. And if this was because smoke be good to share what helped .

Peace and love.

VLRD.Kush said:

Well sounds like a trip to the doctor isn't really in need. I'm definitely going to chill out for a little while on the smoking. My buddy has an oil rig im going to see if he'll let me borrow it for a few weeks and i'll make some BHO or Ice Wax. Can't cook edibles due to living situation.

So in a nutshell: Stop smoking (or at least so much), and exercise some more to help work all of the tar out?

One of my friends used to do amateur boxing and his couch would tell him to boil lemon peels in a cup of water, chug that then go for a jog. He said while jogging he would constantly be coughing up goop and tar and then the next day he'd feel amazing. Anyone else heard of this?

*And Mucinex? I've just started taking that this past week as well.

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D-Limonene (the terp in Lemons/Oranges mostly) is a pretty potent anti inflammatory/anti oxidant and I've heard people say it helps them with their breathing (which if your lungs are inflamed, no doubt would). Interesting story. Probably a bit of placebo effect too.

Some pretty Gnarly photos friend, I had a friend who had this similar problem. He got a filter mouth piece and that thing quickly
turned the same color as the mucus that you shared. Its build up , tar, over all gross things that you body is stockpiling passively
without you even knowing it. And when your body knows it has too much like that it shows you that its trying to clean itself. Take
it as a sign to quit smoking man, cause your health is important. I recently cut down my smoking almost 90% and I hope to be off of
the death sticks 100% soon. They stink , they are bad for you, and they make your breath less desirable. I recommend getting a vape
just so you can still have something to do with your hands ! ! ! And we all know its hard, but shit there's no reason to try to
mimic or have an alternative.

http://electrocomm.tripod.com/gordo_lobo-mullein.html

Use mullein, or gordolobo, as an expectorant to clear the lungs. Make it into a tea.

Hey buddy , thanks for the pics and post , whilst i cannot say my sputum ( mucus , loogies are not that dark )
I have just been starting to get over a pretty severe lung infection , my symptoms were a persistant cough , acute lung pains and severe shortness of breath early in the morning and later in the evenings.

Whilst i have not had a full diagnosis , id had bloods and chest xrays done , contray to the absolute belief that i had cancer or emphasema ( sorry guys i cannot spell that well ) i was told that im not dying . Its been 5 days without any marijuana and i feel absolutley great for it , other then a little irritibility from lack of my smoking weed.
More energy , taste and smell returning , motivation and creativity all on the up and up. I live in australia and we for most part , mix our green with tobacco to make it go further , guess its a cheapskate auzzie thing , and i guess avalability can also attribute to that.

I was smoking about 1.5 - 2 grams a day through a waterpipe mixed with tobacco , i had gone to hospital and was told my shortness of breath was mostly anxiety driven , because of a possible ulcer in my throat or assophagus , making that obstruction feeling.

I got some vallium ( i think you guys call then xanax ) to calm me enough to stop the hyperventilation.


Anyways.
I just want you to know your not alone in this battle , and i DO care that your feeling terrible.

Please consider having a dry week , just to try to identify the issue , and whilst many here will argue , my anxiety is driven or atleast exasibated by smoking high grade weed.
Im going to give it another few months before i try and smoke some more green , i find myself panicking about using it again and blowing up my aymptons so i guess i may be investing in a vaporiser!

On another note
Is there anybody else out there that has mild / severe shortness of breath from smoking bongs ( waterpipes ) from anxiety

And can anybody chime in and possibly reccomend a strain thats not goong to play with my head so bad , i dont know weather its the thc level or another factor.

Just a bit of extra background

I have a.d.d , mild anxiety and depression , but anxiety is triggered with use , well misuse of mj


Goodluck my friend and god bless you

You will be in my prayers