I was just curious, does anyone else out there suffer with tracheomalasia. It's a condition where when I cough my trachea sort of colapses. Right now it's not severe but it does make me really frustrated. When I get an upper respiratory infection I will start coughing a lot, my airways will become inflammed and when I do cough it's very deep, barky and brassy (I've been called a seal, moose, dog, etc) . A lot of times I've gotten a shot and then a does of some sort of prednisone to calm down the inflammation that occurs. So many people look at me like I'm like deathly contagious when I cough and it's really frustrating because I'm not, it's just my body and it's response to infection. I wondered if anyone had this condition and if you do, how do you treat it and what helps you out the best?