Ok guys, mine has gotten REALLY bad lately. I'm leaning VERY strongly towards this being a lack of digestive enzymes. Stress and not so great diet destroys digestive enzymes. I have been eating the core of pineapple throughout the day lately and it eats right through that slime. I can eat something that triggers the waterfall of purging thick clear mucus and eat a chunk of pineapple and it STOPS. But it only lasts 30-60 minutes. I wake up with less of this garbage as well. Lemon juice, lime juice are excellent, too. MY problem is, these foods raise histamine and I have Histamine Intolerance *roll eyes*. So my skin is red and slightly rashy. But yeah... digestive enzymes.
Update since my last post (this is "YeahThisSucks" BTW) Last 2 days I have been ingesting 1 lemon and 1 lime a day throughout the day in fizzy water. Usually i am quite intolerant of citrus/Vitamin C (lifelong, huge Histamine issues) but at this point I am going for broke. This morning I feel dry, no cough, no mucus, no slime. This is great. I hope my body lets me keep ingesting the citrus/Vitamin C. I am getting rashes and itching, and my legs were REALLY flushed red :O but this time I will see if it's actually a detox and not an actual allergic reaction. Will keep updating as days/weeks go on. Wouldn't hurt you guys to try this as well. Please report your results! I'm VERY curious!
Update:
I have dramatically lessened this mucus/vomit nightmare recently.. I do have Salicylate Sensitivity (also Histamine) so this is a huge part of it for me (and maybe you?). The citrus finally did bad things to me, so I stopped.
I have been taking the following with pretty good success thus far. The following products clear SIBO/yeast/candida/parasites, etc:
- 1 drop of Maximum GSE daily
- Fivelac packet of probiotic (sometimes 2 a day if needed)
- Vitamin D3 with K2 (for nerves)
- Magnesium oil spray (for nerves)
- Just started today to take Bentonite Clay in water (I'm starting with 1/4 tsp.. even that seemed strong for me, but my body is hyper sensitive to things).
My eczema is clearing up (!!!!!!!!!!) and the phlegm has really gone down dramatically. Stress/work kicks it back in, as do most foods. Working on that. I did buy a digestive enzyme chewable that someone with Sal/Hist Sensitivities can apparently take. We shall see.
I have the same issue. My nose is so full in the mornings, it goes down my throat, builds up and makes me gag. Not every morning but often enough. I have paid attention to see what was different the nights before this happened. Nothing. I AM a smoker, and I have pets.
I am finding a huge candida die off, skin clearing, and less choking on the clear mucus with my new enzyme. It's called No-Fenol. I have *always* had trouble eating fruits and vegetables and NOW I FINALLY know why, after 25 years of research (!) I am missing the enzymes for "Phenols" (also related to Salicylates and Histamines, so I *was* on the right track all this time). Interesting side note, autistic children/adults are also missing this enzyme and have found incredible results with this product. No, I am not on the spectrum, but I do have a lifelong issue with candida due to unimaginable panic attacks all through high school which made my digestive system go kaput.
I try to keep my nose clean by blowing just before bed, and if I happen to wake up in the middle of the night. I have a dog and a cat; the amount of hair I sweep up in one day is downright amazing! What is GSE?
Grapefruit Seed Extract. Only the little MAXIMUM bottle works as they changed the formula in the bigger bottle (when you shake it or use a milk frother like I do, the water will foam up which means it has the "stuff" that eats up the "slime"). YES YES YES, stress kicks it all right in, immediately. Like clockwork. Which is why I'm choking, spitting, coughing, and vomiting all day at work in the back room. I'm *exhausted*. I'm also starting Molybdenum supplements. It, too, expels Salicylates and Copper as well. My lifelong eczema is clearing up.. I'm ALSO taking Fivelac which is a probiotic which really eats up that slime, some days it's bubbling up in my esophagus and I'm choking and i take a packet and it's a downright miracle how it eats it up right away. It doesn't work every time, but it works a lot of the time. It's powerful so I don't overuse it. It seems to me that this slime we are choking on is a missing digestive enzyme issue/candida.
I stopped the Bentonite Clay after one try because it can really constipate you. I might try bathing in it instead.
Ok, onward I try this and that... NOW what has helped THE MOST thus far is taking 1mg of Molybdenum with a big lunch. I actually feel my whole body gets de-mucused. I feel drier. My mouth feels differently a lot of days.. drier, less "slimy", more alkaline even. Sometimes within 20 minutes I feel my sinus decompress, my foggy head lifts, my locked up muscles let go, and it is amazing. When I sneeze, the inevitable waterfall that ensues DOESN'T! That is one weird sensation for me! (And for a TMI... the SAME thing happens every time I orgasm.. and now it doesn't! LOL!!) I now believe something that has crossed my mind over the years is the main cause to everything I deal with health wise.. high Copper. Molybdenum is a great way to get rid of excess Copper. This is a long road, not an easy fix. I have great days and horrible days (detox rollercoaster). Over the years, a few times a year I would have this random specific nausea and "sick" feeling, along with an agitated all over itching. Hours later I would urinate this very thick, COPPER colored urine. Not orange, not red, not dark yellow, Copper. Now it makes sense! After a couple of days taking the Molybdenum, it happened again! That was enough to convince me I found a key to my issue. I've been through hell-stress for 5 years straight (not to mention a lifetime of other battles) and my Zinc is probably gone, and Zinc keeps Copper in check. Everywhere I lived we had Copper pipes in the house. Only recently are they putting in that PEX piping here in CA. Chocolate is very high in Copper. Certain healthy foods are also very high in Copper. And on I go... the symptom list for high Copper fits me all too well. Yes, same list for a lot of things, but some other things on the list are pretty specific. Copper likes to hide in the liver and other organs sometimes, which makes it harder to detect with tests.
Oh yeah, and my SIBO seems to be in check! Big turnaround from just 6 months ago. My stomach was so rancid. Just awful. I feel clean now and I'm more alkaline, finally. Won't stop the protocol.. more health to be gained. But my ENERGY/feeling alive is coming back. I've been literally the walking dead for years now. I'm fixing things around the house that needed fixing for 1.5 years. I'm getting things done. I am slowly coming alive again.
HOLD THE PHONE!!!!
My sinus and vomiting got SO BAD that, in anger and frustration, I took my Hydrogen Peroxide spray bottle and instead of adding 3-5 sprays into my Neti Pot (which I add randomly a few times a month) I sprayed 10 big sprays in there this time.
It burned. My throat and EARS burned inside like hellfire. My sinus ran like a waterfall continuously in hysterics for 20-30 minutes until I finally did another Neti Pot rinse without Hydrogen Peroxide to flush it clean again.
I am now on day 3 with ZERO POST NASAL DRIP. ZERO VOMITING. I haven't so much as used a Kleenex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You need to understand that for decades I am blowing my nose into Kleenex constantly. Every single jacket I have has always been stuffed with Kleenex.
This led me to an epiphany. MOLD. My last house, and last apartment, had mold issues in the showers due to not having windows. No fan helped. Bleach did much of nothing. My worst explosions of coughing to death, and vomiting mucus was always in the very hot shower (eczema itch).
Since it worked a miracle on my sinus, which has also felt wonderfully wide open as well (!!!) I used the Hydrogen Peroxide in a spray bottle on the shower. Worked AWESOMELY. Why does every article always say use bleach?? It does NOT work!
Please, make sure your shower doesn't have mold (pink/black/anything).
I said above somewhere that I have Histamine and Salicylate Intolerance.. well I learned today doing research that mold toxicity is directly linked! I have every symptom of having mold toxicity. It all makes sense now, after 25 agonizing years. And go figure.. my skin is even healing rapidly now that my sinus isn't clogged up with fungus. I can't even believe my own eyes right now.
And take ZINC. I've been taking Zinc Acetate for a few months now and found very good improvement overall, and today I read that Zinc helps mold toxicity (!)
3 days ago on the internet a random thing called "Sole" crossed my path. It's simply clean water with enough Pink Himalayan Salt soaked in it to saturate the water (when it's saturated, the salt at the bottom you add won't dissolve).
I know I've been chronically, desperately, dehydrated for decades no matter what I have tried thus far. Until this Sole water stuff. It both hydrates me to the point where my tight muscles in my neck loosen up, and it also dries me out so that the gloppy mucus isn't pouring out of my mouth 24/7. My mouth feels infinitely drier. This is utterly fascinating in just 3 days of taking only 1/2 a tsp a day (mixed in a glass of fresh water as stated above).
Vomiting is a sign of dehydration. So is thick spit/mucus. Can't hurt to try. Costs almost nothing. Oh, and the 1st day, and subsequently each day after, I have felt a profound calming of my always overactive nervous system. This was physically proven when I closed my eyes in a dark room and instead of seeing the millions of "stars" I always see, I saw mostly calm black (!). I researched this and found these "stars" are a sign of an over-active nervous system. Also, my vomiting and coughing up the mucus is triggered by stress. Being less stressed on a nerve level, I have had 3 days now of my most wonderful low-coughing days at work (I'm usually cough-vomiting in the back room during the stress fast paced work hours).
This Sole water also took down hypertension as I did something and expected that heavy head/neck pressure and it didn't happen these past 3 days. I'm also feeling a profound lack of inflamed pressure in my eyes and neck muscles. I swear, in just 3 days. My body has been crying for hydration, and now I may have figured out how to do it effectively (NOTHING else worked.. not even adding pink salt to water.. it HAD to be prepared the SOLE way).
Good luck, good luck, good luck!
I too have had this issue for years! I’m in my thirties and it began in my teens. Almost every morning phlegm and occasionally bile but rarely ever food.
I’ve smoked and not smoked over this course, doesn’t seem to change much.
But was really does is being pregnant.
I’ve also woken up earlier than needed to ensure I would never be late.
Could be a major factor. Taking simple Baking Soda gets rid of Salicylates if its an issue.