Has anyone here with hay fever ever coughed or hawked up bloody mucus from the throat or lungs? I have, several times this week and I don't know whether to be worried or not. I have read that allergies can cause capillaries in the nose and throat to burst and blood then pools in the throat, but can that really happen without a person realising? And why wouldn't it have happened to me before when I've had hay fever for around 10 years?
It's only been after I've come back from a long walk (I walk miles a week, all year round) and have needed to bring up very sticky mucus from deep in my throat (could be lungs). The first time the sputum was uniformly pink, and when you google that you get told it could be pulmonary oedema and potentially heart failure. The other times it has been clear/white and heavily streaked with dark red blood, and google says that could be a blood clot or cancer. I do have longer-standing breathing issues that I've never described to a doctor because I have put them down to anxiety, but what if it's all related and something serious is going on?
Has anyone with hay fever had this? Should I bother a GP or would I just look pathetic? I do have health anxiety but I don't go to the doctors very often. When I do, scans etc always show that something is going on even if it's not the worst thing, so my instincts aren't completely warped by anxiety.