Coughing up flem with black strands of flem in it

you prolly live in toronto, its just like smoking

Hey there,
I really would be surprised if it turned out to be anthing serious... Smoking cigs and weed DOES build up alot of tar in your lungs. The coloured gunk coming off your lungs IS tar. it can range from brown to dark green to black! The pain in yout chest is because your lungs are working very hard to remove this c**p!!! you are growing new cilia (very good). Be patient! you should see a doctor to give yourself piece of mind. I smoked weed (hydro) for about 12 years several times per day (about 15-20 cones) and a pack of cigs per day for 7 years. I have quit both about 3 months ago and I still have tar coming up however day by day it is getting less... I hope this helps

I /will/ say that it has nothing to do with smoking pot. The black stuff is tar from cigarettes, not resin from marijuana smoke. You could tell in the taste, if you let the phlegm stick in your mouth, you'll notice a mild charcoal-like flavour, as opposed to a taste that all pot smokers would recognize.

I'm not telling anyone to smoke weed, I'm just saying to blame the real culprit -> Cigarettes

I quit smoking cigarettes a week and a half ago and the black stuff has just started coming out a few days ago, and I have yet to stop smoking marijuana.

I have smoked pot for a long time and quit many times. I started smoking cigs in Jr. High and quit years ago at 21. At 28 I am still battling with pot smokin' and have read all your posts. I am also still scared after reading them like other have mentioned, maybe because I seem to be older than some of you, and have smoked for 14 yrs.. One of you mentioned that you felt short of breath and fatigued too; me also. Hey, did you ever get the PET scan, did your Dr. recommend it? I never had allergies as a child and jus this year I developed major allergies and get severe sinus infections if I don't take medicine. Does all this have to do with smoking pot, do any real Dr.s reply on this forum? My husband also smokes pot (no cigs, never did) and we have matching smoker coughs (cute huh?) but I have the grey/black c**p in the mucus and he does not. Any ideas or recommendations? I have quit because I'm away from any access but will return home to much temptation since where I live it's now "medicine". While I'm clear headed I thought I would like to try to get to the bottom of this mystery....ANY HELP?

OK so after 27 years of cigarettes and weed, I quit smoking two weeks ago. This time around, instead of telling myself no smoking, I keep saying yes, healthy lungs or yes, smoke free. It is amazing how much easier just that little trick can make it to want to stay smoke free. Whenever you get the urge, don't say no to yourself, say yes to something else.

Also, I am smoking up all kinds of dark, dark brown stuff. I also did when I smoked. My pulmonary doctor actually told me to be thankful and that coughing it all up was probably helping me to not get cancer or emphysema...so it's a good thing.

After much discussion and many prescriptions, my pulmonary doctor also told me that water, by far, is the best medicine. She said that while the medical industry prescribes more and more, most doctors fail to admit that staying hydrated (at least 8 8oz glasses or water a day - I usually drink a gallon to two a day but not too much to get water toxification). Also eliminate as much caffeine as possible as this will dehydrate you more.

Anyway, all, keep saying yes to no smoking, drink lots of water and BREATHE!!!

OK, Has anyone thought of cutting up an air filter and putting into the neck of a bong to catch all of this tar that is being expelled out in the phlegm? Would it work?

try vaporizing your pot. its way healthier than smoking and conserves buds.

iv been coughing black stuff up for a few months now i also tend to puke sumtims in the morning if i cough to much .im only 17 so this realy worries me i smoke cigs and pot quite heavily but im starting to think of trying and quiting.what scares me the most is alot of my friends smoke the same amount as me and dont cough black, im to scared to see a doctor or tell my parents plz someone tell me if i have some dirty lung disease.btw bungs and vaporizers wont help i smoke mostly bong so if u wanna know joint is ur best bet

Just so you guys know, you can always VAPORIZE your weed... doesn't anybody know about this? Most of what is being said above is true, but this doesn't mean you need to give up cannabis entirely.

Cigarettes are one thing, since they're PROVEN to be harmful. Vaporizing your buds instead of smoking them is much healthier, and is only a little more damaging to your lungs than a hot shower. You get the benefits of bronchial dilation without the excessive tar buildup.

Keep toking!

I also have been battling with this grey phlegm for a year now. I even have this skin discoloration around the sides of my neck. It got so bad that sometimes I would even cough up huge black goo, and I do mean very black. It was very very scary, I am talking a few ounces of scary looking globs of dark goo.
After trying all kinds of things I have finally beaten it. keep in mind, I am a smoker of weed for over twenty years, and I beat this without stopping, even though stopping smoking would have been an easier solution. First of all, exercise, really get breathing to the point where you are coughing up all kinds of funk. I even have gone running while munching on romaine lettuce and this really gets the juices going and loosens all of the goo. so much easier to get it out when it is wet and loose rather than dry.
The other really big helper is probiotics, I just got turned onto this bio k plus, and it is incredible. It is expensive but is the best and really kicks butt. I am finally getting my energy back, and the black stopped in a couple of days! Good luck to you and know that you can beat this, so don't be scared. Oh, and also very important to avoid any sugar or sweetened foods, such as soda and candy, also very important not to drink alcohol,,, but this is only necessary for a short time until you fully recover.

I just started coughing up black stuff with strands of flem and I have soar throat I HAVE NEVER Smoked in my life but I hang around my aunt and uncle who does could 2nd hand smoke have caused this?

i chouugh up black stuff every day it is worse after i eat and in the morning i chough up a lot and think it is just tar i mean i hope .i dont want tb

Okay well here's my story. I started smoking pot and weed when i was about 16, I stopped smoking cigs, then tried cloves and blacknmilds, but stopped those after a year. But have been smoking pot ever since, I'm 24 now.

I have always had a problem with allergies and sinus infections. I got a catscan when i was a kid and they said I had chronic rhinitus (chronic swelling of the sinuses) and I get sinus infections about 4 times a year. They never addressed my lung issue and I don't have health insurance anymore.

I cough up mucus with black globs, dots, or strands. Its always worse after I get better from being sick. When I'm sick I start off with scratchy dry throat, then I get fever and stuffed up nose and swelled up sinuses. Then I get a raspy cough, then I start coughing up green chunky stuff. I use to be on antibiotics all the time when I was sick like that, but I don't think they were helping. Now when I get sick I don't take any antibiotics, I just treat the symptoms and the green stuff and other symptoms go away after a week or so. But the black stuff is always worse after.. I have to force it up by exhaling until I feel the crackling in my lungs and then coughing hard to spit it up.

I have always assumed it was a good thing. Because I asked all my pot-smoking friends if they cough up black stuff, and none do, but all of them smoke cigs and I don't. I've read on multiple forums that cigs close up the lungs and weed opens them up, so I should be glad I'm getting rid of all the black stuff. Somebody on another forum mentioned several of their other symptoms including night sweats and dizziness. I get those as well, not so much the dizziness I thought.. until friends around me tell me they don't get dizzy hardly at all.

I'm wondering if the black stuff in my lungs causes me to get sick with the green stuff in the first place. Oh yeah I've also coughed up blood several times, always when I'm sick with the green chunky infections. Oh and the chucks can come from my nose or my lungs. I have three things I have to do all the time.. exhale from my lungs to cough things up, snort air through my sinuses to the back of my throat to clear my sinuses (can either swallow or spit that out.. much prefer to spit) and blow my nose to get anything further up their.

I don't have to call out from work much.. just the first day of me being sick is the only day I can't do anything. But getting sick often sucks, all my friends catch it from me but I get the worst of it and it lasts the longest for me. Black stuff doesn't seem good either.. I don't want lung cancer or anything.. probably will stop smoking soon.

So to sum it up.. I smoke weed, not cigs, I work out, and I have alot of sinus problems/infections etc.. had walking pnemonia once and they gave me the antibiotics they were giving to anthrax patients lol

Now anyone got something they want to say, BESIDES stop smoking?

Hey guys,
I am 22 years old. I have smoke filterless cigs and 5-6 blunts a day since i was 12. i got your problems, and COPD on top of that. today i am a medical student and learning serious sh*t about this. the idea is that smoking stuns the cilia in your lungs which sweep the tar out. the top 23% of my lungs have dead cilia which will never grow back so that tar will never come out and cause emphysema. the rest just gets stuned and wakes up in a few days. thats why you cough it up when you go a few days without smoking. it is better to get it out. being so young and about to die i suggest to you all : dont stop! but take brakes. smoke for a while- stop for a week. exercise and cough it all out. the worst thing to do is smoke every few hours since then the cilia never wake up and clean your lungs out. you can smoke, its killin me but i love it. the thing is recovery time. same as body building. you can be stuck on corticosteroids for the rest of your life like me to lower the inflamation and continue, or you can just rest in between and your beautiful body will take care of its self. well i hope that helps some one.

im 15 years old and i just started smoking weed back in January by the time summer came i was smoking about 1/4 a day and just quit last week do to health problems.. i notice chest pains it almost feels like my lungs have a bit of water in them and when i take a deep breath in an even sharper pain occurs and when i try to exhale all the air in my lungs i get a terrible cough which eventually produces phlegm... it was so bad the one day that blood was coming out with my phlegm. gas any one else had this happen to them ?