Excessive Mucus - A Slow Frustrating Death

Been there and kind still am occasionally.
Acupuncture, Chiropractic with focus on spine, neck, head especially. Green your diet, rid yourself of sugars which may feed bacteria, Gram + B Strep. Also have been dx with Adrenal insufficiancy

Hi , Sorry to hear but why dont you try ayurvedic try googling to see if any home remedy for thse things instead of medicationsomer try using homeopathy medicine ithink they might have some solution

Hi,
Sorry to hear I have replied below please see if this would be helpfull

i'd appreciate if you could share your remedy with me. thanks

I have da same problem since I've born   .. I can't even breathe properly ... mucus is always there 2 irritate me .. i'm just pissed of ., I cant do anything i'm now 14 n i'm facing dis prob 4rm a very long time plzz any body help .. there is not a single moment dat I've not felt mucus in my nose n my head .. I just spit it out all da time n always feel like fever wat 2 do plz any 1 help me my allergy has reached at level dat my whole body has infection n i'm facing skin problems as well ...

 

 

I hope your doing better now.

What dossage are you taking.

Thanks. can you pl tell dosage and also where you ordered the medicine from ?

Hi Tina: PLEASE............I'm about to the end of my rope. I'm 76 and have this mucus problem and awful cough that has broken a couple of my ribs. I am miserable as can't sleep at night, can't lay as lungs hurt, etc. I hope you can help me. I have been on "natural" supplements for about 30 years and have been so healthy otherwise but now this and It is killing me. I've been to pulmonary dr's, can't find anythiing plus my family doctor. Hope you can help Tina. Thanks so so much................LaVonne

My prayers to all of you suffering from this symptom. especially teens and little children.

I have the same problem. it's been 5 yrs now. can't swallow because I'd gag if i swallow. can't sleep, i have to hack and spit out that sticky plegmn all the time even while sleeping. I thought i'd die when it develpoed, but i havn't dies yet. But had experienced panic attack one year before this symptom- don't know if it was related, but still this plegmn almost trigers panic...i'm feeling i walk on the wire.

 

* 6 yrs ago, i had panic attacks - dunno exact cause.: i took medicine for it for 6 months, then stopped because i didn't want to rely on medications. it got better eventually. 

  - when panic attacks, i couldn't bbreathe well, constantly worried about something stays in my throat.

  - doctors said nothing abnormal by endoscope.

  - tried reflex medications and didn't help at all....took helliobactor medicine too, didn't help.

  - some ENT doctor said that it is my brain problem, not my ENT problem. He didn't understand that every day i had to spit lots of really sticky flems.

  - some ENT doctor recommended to get surgery because he saw my sinus problem with X-ray. But, my severe allergy results prevents me from taking the surgery.

* 5 yrs ago, started to develope excessive flem, until today.

   - before this, i had light allergy (only mold and dust) and light chronic rhinitis

   - when this symptom started, i did allergy test -- turned out i was allergic to most of air-borns

   - tried allergy shots every week for more than 6 months....stopped because it didn't help.

   - tried many medications -- non of them really don't help. even though i take muncinex or Robertsons's for flem, when i feel like that's my last day in this world.

  - i have tried rinse my nose with boiled salt water after cooling it down...(to avoid other infection through this rinse water), it rinses a lot of sticky mucous inside my nose....then feels better for a while. and it actually helps me to sleep better if i rinse just before sleeping.

  - i sometimes can not breathe and can't clear up my throat...worry and fear make it worse. Don't fear, if you can.

 

* since 4 yrs ago, I stopped all the anti-biotics.

   - before this, i had to take heavy anti-biotics every month because my sinus got infected every month with thick yellow nose or even ear infection too with sinus infection.

     I got sick and tired of taking antibiotics, so i just decided to stop taking it, even if i die from the infection. 

  - After stopping taking anti-biotics, i rarely got any other sinus infection with thick yellow mucose. But still have thick white post-nasal-drip constantly. 

  - I rarely cough. I just have to hack it out from my deep throat.  For the first 2 years, I thought I would die from neumonia or short of breath...and could't even figure out where the mucose is produced. But now, I am certain now it is from sinus. post nasal drip. but it is too sticky.  

  - sometimes, i notice that my stool even contains lots of mucose....probably slpped into my stomach when i sleep.

  - I hate to be in a waiting line to buy something at a store or for the movies or at the airport. That's the worst time in public because I either gag or have to run into restroom to spit out flem. When I am alone, I always carry an empty disposable cup to spit out.  Also i put it by my bed when I sleep. 

  - when i use airplane, i need to go to bathroom every second to spit out.....can't use bus or train....or can't be somebody's passenger if they don't really understand my situation....i don't want them to get sick too because of my flem.

  

* as i siad, i still alive.

  - so far, best thing i can recommend is to rinse your nose as often as you can.

     Boil it and warm down it before using it. If it's too cold and too salty, it's painful. Use probably 3 or 5% salty water when it is warm. 

  - i don't believe in the western medications....it eventually make your body weary. But still use one of them, when I feel like I'm dying ---maybe for placibo effect, at least. (it really doesn't help anyway.)

 

* Good luck everybody

By the way, all of this started when i was 39 yo

I have had excessive mucus for 2yrs now & gradually it got worse to the point my throat feels strained liked someone strangling me from the inside.I have been to 3 different doctors who all said it was stress and wanted to give me xanax.Then i went to another doctor who tested me for helibactor pylori which came back positive,so i was treated with nexium7 & retested and the results were normal. But my problem stayed, recently i turned to hypnosis as i had a lot of stress over 7 months,lost my job,4 family deaths & mum diagnosed with lung cancer.My stress levels have reduced dramactically,but my throat is still causing me problems.A friend suggested i see a Naturopath so i made a appointment,she checked my eyes & my tongue,asked if i was a smoker(i quit 22 yrs ago) and had i taken a lot of antibiotics(which i had from my late teens) Due to my smoking & use of antibiotics and NOT detoxing after giving up smoking over the years my body has been struggling to stay well(although i felt well)so now at the age of 52 it has got to the stage where symptoms have worsened(but has been gradually worsening over the years like coughing up mucus first thing in the morning to gradually increasing each day over a period of years).My stomach is badly inflamed so is my liver and my Thyroid isnt funtioning properly.One of the first things our body does is produce excess mucus as a protection to try and keep bad bacteria & germs out of the body,this is what is happening to me.My condition is so advanced that she said i have a long road ahead of me.She has taken me off dairy,wheat,alcohol,carbonated soft drinks & caffeine.I noticed a improvement in the first 48hrs,for the whole week i felt fantastic,then i had 2 bad days(nowhere near as bad as what i have had) when i told my Naturopath she said it was the body plateuing & that would happen several times over the next few weeks,she has put me on herbs which arent that bad,but then i wouldnt care how foul it was long as it will help get rid of this nightmare.I have 2 more weeks to go on detox and i am hoping the improvement will be even better.I have a fear of this being something sinister as my glands are swollen,but the naturopath says when the body is fighting infection the glands swell.I will keep you posted,hopefully within the next 2 weeks i may have some good news and i will share it with everyone.Seriously consider seeing a Naturopath or a herbalist.The great thing is there are no nasty side affects. Good Luck

what is the detox process other than the elimination of caffeine, alcohol, dairy, wheat, and soda? Just curious because I too tried that although I did not eliminate wheat and really felt no different. Did it for about 2 weeks. Glad you are feeling better though. Thanks.

The elimination process is a mix of herbs that the naturopath makes up for you,some ingredients are for excessive mucus,to get better is a long process,it won't happen quickly but you will notice relief. I contacted my naturopath a couple of days ago as my throat was pretty bad and my glands were swollen, here is her reply.( "Your glands are swollen when they are trying to fight infection especially if your throat is sore as well,as your throat is part of your lymphatic system with your glands,we are also stimulating your immune system so your immune system is just working harder.Swollen glands are usually a sign that the body can't fight infection properly eg: glandular fever") We produce excess mucus when our body is trying to fight infection ,for example when we get a cold or flu we get a runny nose and sometimes it builds up in the throat. I havent recovered from years of infections when i was younger & also i was a smoker,gradually over the years it has caught up with me and now my body is inflamed and i wasted months going to doctors & being told it was stress only because when we are stressed it causes excess mucus, again it's the body trying to heal itself. I always thought my doctor was good but now i realise he presumed it was due to stress because of what has happened over the last 8 months. Also start juicing,carrot,beetroot & apple helps with inflamation also dandelion tea and licorice tea,you have to drink 1 to 2 litres of water a day,your herbal teas are included in that,she also told me your urine should always be pale yellow if it's white you have drank to much water. Remember depending on how bad you are it can be a long process,i am only into my 3rd week and i am up in the high catagory but compared to what i was like when i first saw my naturopath i'm a lot better. I hope this helps.

I had this too for 22 years. Finally found out that it was related to coffee. I'm not yet sure but I think I have an allergy to coffee. Coffee allergies are a bit unusual because it doesn't produce the common signs of hives or rash breakouts. And because of the caffeine, respiratory collapse won't happen either. My only symptom was a constant gagging feeling in my throat which I had to alleviate by forcefully blowing the thick mucus out through my nose and then using those listerine tongue dissolves. Switching from coffee to green tea improved my condition immensely to the point where it only happens if I get a bad case of the flu. Hope this helps someone.