i'd like to know someones opinion if what i have sounds like cystic fibrosis or just an everyday cold... well it all started when i was 17 or 18 and i am now 21... i cough alot because i feel very conjested in my throat and chest.. in the mornings its the worst, but it never goes away and when i get sick im always very conjested with cold like stuff in me, i always seem to have to kind of hit myself on the chest and back to help it come up and it does seem to... my doctors say i have asthma, and one laughed when i mentioned cystic fibrosis but i dont believe i have asthma, and also i get so clogged up with this stuff that sometimes i do weeze... but its like im always stopped up like before i eat i feel i have to clear my throat and cough, because it feels so clogged up... can anyone help me out, i was wondering if this sounds like that or not? thank you

Symptoms of cf
Salty tasting skin or salt crystals on the skin- in some cases
Coughing accommpanied by gagging vomiting disturbed sleep
collaped lungs coughing up blood bronchitis pneumonia
dehydration
rectal prolapes
barrel chest
clubbing or the fingers or toes
nasal polyps
scarring of the pancreas
inflammation of the liver
esophageal varices
flabby muscles potruding belly

Do you take allergy meds because allergies can cause a lot of the symptoms you asked about?

u sound a bit like me. i have allergies, and my post nasal drip gets very thick and chokes me in my throat and bronchial area. they say i have asthma too but its well-controlled. i dont have any symptoms of cf other than the sinus problems with phlegm in my throat that never goes away. they, too laugh almost at me when i bring it up. i am going to a pulmo in about a month just to make sure everything is ok. they said if u had cf wou would def. know, but quite a few ppl are diagnosed later in life. who knows. i always have to hack a wad of mucus up after i eat too, what gives? i have to take nexium too for mild lpr, but i dont see any difference. good luck to u

No, it doesnt, if you are 21 you would have been diagnosed a long time ago I should think... unless you have some kinda of extreemly mild CF.. but thats unlikely.. then again I am no doctor, just a 19 year old with CF going by past experiance ;o

waita minuteget testedi knewsomeone who wasonly diagnosed when they were like 13 and at clinic thereis a girl who was diagnosedwhen she was pregnant at the age of about 21, so if you think you might have cf and have syptoms then get tested at least you will know definately , :nono:
an as for me i wasdiagnosed when i was six months old and spent 8 years on no meds at all . if i say to a gp that i have cf they dont believe me so anything is possible ?? i am 20 now have been on medsthe last 2 years in sa and thosearelike just creon and multi vitamins , flucloxx

sorry but i hadto do this when i saw it.

http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=18&m=263975

this guy is 30 and wasdiagnosed with cf

It doesn't sound like it

Yes you can have CF and not be diagnosed for awhile! I know adults who were diagnosed with it well into adulthood. I knew an 18 year old who wasn't diagnosed until she had a baby and that baby was diagnosed with CF and they did DNA testing on the mother only to find out she wasn't just a carrier...she has CF also!

I was diagnosed at 16 and no mine isn't "mild", I've had noticeable symptoms since I was really young but no doctor ever tested me until I was deathly ill.