VG causing bronchitis-like symptoms & phlegm

[Racehorse]

Or... it could just be you got sick.

For a year?

Yes, OP did get an acute respiratory illness in January of this year. Sort of like your sis.

But OP admits to onset of chest problems most of the whole year before this which coincides with beginning to vape.

It is more likely that OP is either allergic to some ingredient in elqiuid, or one of the metals used in or on delivery device, etc.

My sister doesn't vape, yet she got a sinus infection this winter so bad the house shook when she coughed and it put her on antibiotics. Is that supposed to be vaping related too?

Do you vape inside the house? Just kidding, but I've been around friends who had no problem with my smoking for 25 years......but they can't take the smell of ccertain flavorings in my ecigs.

Not every person is a candidate for vaping, as i'm sure you know from being on this forum for many years.

 

[Racehorse]

The main ingredient is PG, but ingredients on box list Propylene Glycol, Vegetable Glycol, Nicotine, Natural Flavors & Artificial Flavors.

And you can actually be sensitive to any one of those things.

If you would like to try to continue vaping, when you feel well enough, many of us will be happy to help you try, thru the process of elimination, to find what it is that is causing you problems.

It sounds like you enjoyed vaping, shamari, and there may be a way for you to continue to vape.

 

[edyle]

I went through something similar too with the Blu e cig but when i switched over and up graded i have not had not had a problem. I have heard of others having the same issues. I have noticed I don't have as much allergies sense i quit smoking.

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There.
Another example of cartridge filler/wicking material; Blu is a carto type device; plus as you use it the wicking material gets less wet and there's always going to be that tendency to vape on a carto that is too dry. You can't look at it and see that it's too dry; you basically vape until it tastes too bad.

 

[Exchaner]

Or... it could just be you got sick.

Not everything and every illness is now the result of vaping - because it never was to begin with. It's winter - people get all sorts of bronchial, sinus, respiratory problems and infections in winter. My sister doesn't vape, yet she got a sinus infection this winter so bad the house shook when she coughed and it put her on antibiotics. Is that supposed to be vaping related too?

Sound like you are doing your best to blame the problem on anything else other than vaping.

 

[Valeriya]

I'm new here, so I can only post in this section. I wanted to comment in the posts that talk about the down side of e-cigarettes. I quit analog smoking in Oct 2013 w the help of e-cigs.
I liked my e-cig so much that I couldn't put it down, and given the choice, would take my e-cig over tobacco cigarettes readily.
I noticed in the past year that I was developing a chesty, deep-down cough. It was noticeable if I coughed, but it didn't stop me from smoking my e-cigs.
Then I got sick on jan 22 of this year. My chest was congested, and the cough was continual. It was so bad I was forced to see a doctor. I had "strident" - that is a noticeable, loud wheeze on exhale.
I noticed if I tried to smoke my e-cig, the effect was immediate. I would start coughing even more. I had to give up my e-cig, but was so addicted to it I would try every day to smoke a little vapor. I finally realized I was not going to get better unless I could put it down for good.
The "bronchitis and strident" persisted for weeks. It evolved into my coughing up phlegm. Sorry, I've no other way to describe it.
After 3 weeks of this bronchial cough, strident and phlegm, the doctor took x-rays of my chest and neck. She asked me on 1st visit of I was a tobacco smoker. I said no, but volunteered the info that I smoked vapor from e-cigarettes, and I felt this fact had caused my illness. It has been 4 weeks now and it is finally starting to clear up. She said they have very little info on e-cigs and could not advise me on those lines.
I miss my e-cig more than I can say. I am afraid that the way I vaped caused the problem. I didn't vape a few times and put it down. If I was watching a movie I would vape all the way through it! So hopefully this sickness was caused not by moderate vaping, but by vaping too much..
I have every intention of trying to vape normally if my lungs ever clear, but it has been scary, to say the least.
if anyone vapes too much, constantly pulling the vapor into their lungs, it might b a good idea to try and moderate it. Perhaps it is just my bad luck, but the nicotine gum I've been chewing for some type of nicotine delivery is not pleasurable, and I do miss my e-cig. I just wanted to go on record saying that an alternative to PG or VG for nicotine delivery needs to be found. If anyone knows of such an e-liquid, I would be thrilled to get this information..

Just cut back on vaping for a month or so and see if you get better.

 

[govolgo33]

When I first quit smoking and took gaping, I coughed up all kind of junk for about a month. My doctor said that is what happens when you quit smoking tobacco cigs. I have not had any problems since that first 4 to 6 weeks. I am a heavy vapor but down to 3 to 6 mg. No cough for first time in 20 years and I can breathe.