Only in the Night, Build up of Mucus and Excessive Coughing

I have the EXACT same thing!!!!!? I have no idea what it is but its very irritating and yes as soon as its dark I start to cough as well!?!?

I to am fine during the day but as soon as I lay down at night, I have excessive musus and coughing, I have to get up many times every night untill it clears up then when I try to lay down again, it starts right back. It is always white and very thick. HELP

hi did you mean a clove of garlic

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i have the same problem, did the clove of garlic stoped it

WHAT IS A COUGH THAT IS ONLY AT NIGHT.....

These comments are really helpful and give me some suggestions as to what to try. I had a sleeve gastrectomy about 9 months ago. I can tell when I have acid reflux- particularly happens at night. I have Nexium- really effective antacid tablets for this. However, in the last few days I feel like I am choking in bed in the evenings. I cough and cough and cough. My throat is ticklish but I feel no acidity. My mucous is clear, but I bring up[ bits of my well chewed dinner.

I'm wondering if I should stop eating earlier in the night. Someone mentioned caffeine. I do drink a lot of diet coke. It's a very unpleasant sensation and distressing because it happens suddenly and as somebody else posted on this sight, It feels like I'm choking. I'm going to go to bed with a strepsil in my mouth and see if at least the tickling and irritation goes away.

omg i feel the same way ....i have the same thing going on for over three years and i dont know what im going to do but some time i feel like i can't like like this and no doctor seems to know whats really going on......... I feel this is not nomal........please help

I have been the same for years and just found out what to do to make things better, I am standing up as much as I can now, and this is opening my sinuses, when I am sat down too much they block up, the reason I have been sitting down too much is that I felt worse when stood up, it feels like something is pulling in your head and you feel tired, but if you can stand up long enough it gets better, lean on something if it's easier.

Another sufferer here. I'm 18 and have been spitting up green mucus every night for at least 2 years. I'm apparently not allergic to anything, and it doesn't improve when I stay away from home either. I've had a couple of sample tests and both were reported to be free of anything growing in it. I've been to ENT a couple of times too, and they did sod all to help me. They suggested it's a post nasal drip, and gave me nasal sprays/drips that didn't help at all.

Now, I do sleep breathe through my mouth - it tends to dangle wide open - and I wondered if this is something we all have in common. Perhaps the answer lies in getting myself hypnotised into breathing through my nose while I sleep. I do seem to have pretty crappy nasal passages though. Theyr'e always at least partially blocked, not to mention a somewhat lacking sense of smell.

Also, the only nights I've ever had free of phlegm was after I'd had a rather nasty operation done on my chest, where they basically took it apart and stuck a titanium bar in to keep it in place because it was growing lopsided. Maybe it was the strong antibiotics I was on, maybe because I wasn't moving, and in fact barely breathing. (fun times!) Perhaps it was "cleaner" air, although I seem to remember being free for a while after I came home, or it might just be that I had bigger worries and subconciously swallowed it.

Maybe it could be asthma. Or if you wake up choking, maybe it could have to do with sleep apnea.

I find this very funny. A colonoscopy is a camera up your bum I think you are referring to a gastroscopy where an endoscope is insertyed down your gullet to look for damage caused by reflux to the entestinal tract.

I read trough the replies, and a few times people mentioned mold. I've had the same problem for about 2 months. The mucus just builds up when I go to bed until I can't get any air trough my throat. That's when the coughing starts, and it lasts for about half an hour. then it kind of settles. It's getting less, but on some days it just gets back to the old where I wake up at night once or twice. 

I was already wondering if that could be the problem since I have some mold on my wall, near the floor, right where my head is when I sleep.

But my girlfriend doesn't have the cough even though we sleep in the same bed most of the time.

My bed is now on the other side of the room, I got rid of as many dust as I could, and I'm going to try washing off the mold, so I hope it gets better from now on.

 

I'll post here if it gets any better.

I too have suffered with this for years and it only occurs at night whilst lying down.  I keep water on the bedside table and have a sip or get up and have a sip of something fizzy to clear the throat.  I do often have to cough up/spit up phlegm, which is always clear.  I suspect mine is a combination of allergies (both pollen and food) and I do occasionally take antihistamines and expectorants.  Hot drinks such as lemon in water, green tea, peppermint tea, etc, all help.

 

I would suggest the person who mentioned 'clove' actually meant the aromatic clove and not a clove of garlic ...