Excessive Mucus in my Throat

i have also had the same problem i moved in december and ever since then i wake up in the morning and i choke on mucous this huge blob of gook comes up sometimes it tis clear white yellow and green went to the doc she say it might be allergies have been taking zyrtec helps a little nose is constantly running and i cough all day but not much comes out and then sometimes my throat will tickle so bad i can hardly get any air in to cough sometimes i cough so hard i feel like i am gonna puke not quite sure what to do anymore also she put me on inhaler???

I have read everything on here about excess mucus. I have had this problem for about 10 weeks.. 2 weeks before I had my baby.

We had a leak in our kitchen ceiling so my husband tore it down(still not fixed). I got really sick the next day and have been ever since. I couldnt hear very well for about a week and got very panicked and spent lots of time in the emergency room. Nobody could give me answers. Finally, I was told there was water in my ears and/or the tubes just under my ear. Eventually that went away, mostly. Anyway, I still have what feels like a lump in my throat, dryness too, my chest also feels like that. It is harder at night and when I eat. My doctor just tells me it will go away it is only anxiety..not! I had complication from the c-section which caused me to have PE and DVT so I am now taking Warfarin.(which sucks) I have come across several different things that may help.. ginger tea for example and more but I cannot take them. To add to that, I also have a yeast overgrowth, which doctors dont like to admit to having any affect on you health (it does) I got lots of good information at yeast connection.com ... you can take liquid chlorophyll to help with the excess yeast.. or probiotics which is what I started taking.. so far so good..

Things are starting to ease up..

My son had similar issues due to post nasal drip... he took Echinesea-GoldenSeal..15 drops in water(swallowed) 2-3 times daily and it got rid of his problems. This also helps with other ailments.

Good Luck! Ask your doctors to check for yeast overgrowth.. That could be a big part of the problems in cases.

[Hello I just wanted to know if you ever figured out what was wrong with you because I have very similar issues

Another one here with the same thing.

It's so annoying constantly feeling like I need to clear my throat. I find it especially bad after I drink..

I'm tempted to go to my Dr but it seems most people have done that and not got anywhere.

Its really annoying me because I want to join the army but I know if I have this problem they wont accept me.

Does anyone know natural remedy's? Like honey and baking soda or something.

I know how you all feel, its so ANNOYING! :-(

Go to www.healthtalkradio.com on any Sunday and depending on your time zone, call into the radio program with Dr. Julian Whitaker. The advice for my throat clearing was to make a solution of water and a quarter teaspoon of salt and sniff it into my nostrils to the back of my throat to clear up what he thought may be post nasal drip. The ENT had me on several drugs and thought I also had GERD without the normal symptoms. Dr. Whitaker said that the ENT put me on the drug band wagon which I believed. I had already quit taking the drugs after my second appointment because I wasn't getting the relief I expected. I also used a Neti pot which also helped. This eased the problem but didn't cure it yet. If enough people call into the program with the same problem he may bring in guest doctors to help solve all these throat and sinus problems. We can only try.

The site I typed should be www.healthytalkradio.com. I accidentally left off the letter "y" and it made a big difference in sites. Sorry!

My doc (just this week) told me to go to an ENT and get scoped. My gag reflex is HIGH; not sure if I could survive that!

I had it done and there was no gag reflex at all! It suprised me, but it seems to somehow be bypassed.

OK, here is my story.... 2 months ago, I had to go for a mammogram, while there, I cleared my throat and felt this horrid ripping feeling on the left side of my throat. Thought it would be gone by the time I got home... It wasnt, so I called the family Dr and was told to come right in. He looked at my throat, decided to send me for a sonogram of my throat, ok, so I went the next day and that came back negative. Dr. calls me, says I need to go to an ENT, I make that appt. wait 3 weeks, and go to him, still in pain. He does the throat scope, which was not all that pleasant.. Tells me he sees nothing, however, I have a "nodule" that he finds while feeling my neck.. Sends me for a CT Scan, ok, next day I go for that, hospital does it, I leave, there is a storm, they lose all of their computers, TWO weeks goes by before I get the results, and to get those results, I went to the same hospital emergency room because I thought I was going to choke to death, this was the first time I felt this excess mucus in my throat Those scans are "unremarkable", negative, nothing... They tell me at the hospital that it is my teeth. (I was born with no adult teeth in the back, so still working with baby teeth at age 34) I go to the dentist to find out that I have 3 abscessed teeth on the same side as the pain. Not to mention 3 others that have to come out.. I get told they are draining, that is the feeling in the back of your throat, I go have them removed all in the same day. A week goes by, I start coughing up blood, I get so upset that I am once again back in the hospital emergency room. They tell me that it is from the teeth, do a chest x ray and take a million blood samples, all is well.. Back to the family Dr. he says now it is all anxiety, so I am now on Paxil, I have tried Zyrtec, Claritin, Sudafed, Prilosec for the stomach, eating mints to control the stomach, and now I go back to the ENT this Friday... I still get a little pain now and then, but the "lump" feeling in the back of my throat is insane!!! I cant take much more of it..Occassionally I can cough up a little bit, and it is nothing but clear mucus. I have to clear my throat before I talk, when will it end???????

Well ever since I was like three months pregnant I started feeling mucus in my throat. I would make myself throw up just trying to spit them out because they were so hard to spit out. And even after spitting I still felt mucus in my throat. This would be most of a problem in the morning and when I hadn't have much to eat and get really hungry I would feel the mucus and throw up. I told my doc. while I was pregnant and they just said try no to drink too much milk to choose other dairy product like yogurt and stuff... it didnt help! Anyways now that it's been almost 2 years since I had my baby I still have the mucus and it is still hard to spit it out, the only thing is that I don't throw up. Someone please help because nothing here has helped much and sometimes I feel I'm the only one with this weird problem.

I am a physician and have been to an ent and i do have alot of mucus secretion in the back of my throat, i was offered steroids both oral and nasal and though they minimize symptoms, i think it is a combination of foods and indoor pollutants and environmental pollutants because i live in a large heavily polluted city. my personal experience has taught me to use something called a netti pot. I thought initially that this was kind of bogus because it is a small teapot shaped ceramic instrument that holds salt water and you drain it into one nostril and it travels through the sinus cavities and drains through the other side. It feels very weird and a little uncomfortable but not painful and i had to use a very small amount of salt, but it cleared up the problem very quickly after a few treatments, after the first treatment i had alot of improvement and it is a very inexpensive way to approach most of the congestion issues if you dont want meds. This wont work if you have deviated septa or polyps or obstructions but it has worked for me when i had sinus infections and alot of secretions. If you have tried other things and havent found something worthwhile try this as I have met other pple who have had good success with it. Good luck

Suffering from the same since last 3 years. Just googled and found this thread..Me too feel embarassing at everyplaces I go. Had many tests done in India as well as UK but nothing worked..Now learned to be shameless :-)

You have chronic sinusitis.

I had mucus in my throat for about two years or so, and i got the rid of most of it by using an ear drop containing peroxide "oxy wax" I also make sure i stick my tongue as far out as possible while cleaning it to ensure that i have reached the bacteria living there. I drink alot of fresh lemon/lime juices or teas and also drink alot of herbal teas. About a few weeks after practising these daily exercies i notice feeling like i was choking on something maybe as small as a half of a rice grain and when i coughed it up it was white and very smelly, and the texture was just like a cooked grain of rice. It's now been months since that experience and i still practice drinking the teas and using the air drop and atleast every other day i feel the little pieces of white stuff in my throat and when i cough it comes up. I think that this uncomfortable thing is a result of mucus build-up and it stays there until it becomes solid.

Hi Kya and everyone esle that has placed a post..has anyone responed to any help or suggestions, like you i have had this symptom since March of this year 2008. I am driving my family crazy since i am constantly trying to cough up something and constantly clearing my throat. I have never ever suffered from this until this year. My chest aches because I am constantly trying to cough up. I am embarrased to go eat out because I cough. I have tried steriods, antibiotics, nasal sprays, allergy pills. Went to the doctor last week he said i didnt have a sinus infection just allergies. This morning I coughed, i actually make my self cough and push down on my diaphram so i can have a deeper cough and actually coughed up something. I felt like a little rock in my mouth. This is gross but i have to see if anyone has had this happen.. i took it out of my mouth and it was hard, i smushed it and for what ever reason i smelled it and it was nasty!!!!! i am soo sick of this, if any one has gotten better or any relief please please send a response. Thank you

I have had the choking, gagging, clearing of the throad for FIVE YEARS with no relief.. my doctors have put me through THOUSANDS of dollars of procedures and I told them from the beginning, my uvula swelled HUGE when i was sick and it got stretched out.. and would you PLEASE hack it off so its normal size? Five years later they removed 2/3 of it and left me a third (now its normal uvula size)... and my YOYO phlegm coughing hacking ordeal is OVER...
The procedure is painful afterwards so if you are faint of heart, have them put you out.
I too wanted to jump off of a bridge and I finally finally finally have relief.