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A member asked:

Cough up hard jelly clear phlem like a bb bullet when i cough it just comes flying out.its thicker than normal phlem and its not a tonsil stone?

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Dr. Luis Taylor answered

Specializes in Pulmonology

Lab tests: Please spit into a sterile cup, seal and ask your physician to send it to the lab for sputum Gram stain, Culture and fungal smears. Get well.

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Answered 3/14/2015

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Can u feel tonsil stones? For the past two days ive been forcing myself to cough up/spit out these little yellow balls. The feeling drives me crazy!!

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She has high fever last week for 2 days and her right tonsil looks swollen. She has cough too with phlegm. Yesterday she has fever again. What is this?

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Could constant tonsil stones cause a general sick feeling (achy, headache, flu like symptoms) and chronic cough?

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I woke up Friday with a sensation of a tonsil stone in my throat. I kept trying to cough it up but that feeling of something caught in my throat didnt go away. I looked in the mirror & saw a bumpy/cyst like growth on my right tonsil. Should I worry?

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I've had a dry cough on and off for weeks it's sounds very chesty but is dry no phlegm, also my tonsils are enlarged and I also think I've developed sleep apnea?

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