Wake up every morning and vomit phlegm

I am blown away at the amount of people that seem to have this problem. I have had this issue for at least 10 years and its getting worse by the day. I wake up naturally at 5 every morning and it never fails, 15 minutes later im puking flem and stomach acid. Its brutal. Some days it lasts till up to 10 am. I'll have to pull over because im gagging so bad I can't see. The doctors seem to have no answer. Just had a endoscopy done with nothing pointing to any solution. It is always worse if im taking a shower. Maybe the humidity affects it. Like the flooring guy, i breath in alot of dust ( bricklayer) and I dont know if the dust is the cause but I know that I have very overactive flem production and nothing i do seems to put a clamp on this. This is a brutal issue that will not go away it seems. Are we just stuck with this??????????

My son is seeing a GI doctor in Vanderbelt on Feb 8th . Who did you see? My son(30yrs old) has been nausa and vomiting for over 6 years gallbadder remove 2 months ago and is sick every morning now.


Thanks
Cindy

i also went to a gi doctor and they told me that nothing was wrong. i just laughed.

I have this problem too, and it's severely hurting me on the insides. It's every day, at least 4 times a day, and it's always phlegm and/or bile. I haven't eaten more than half a pb&j in the last week.

the doctor has told me to try to not eat at night before i go to bed to try and help with the vomitting.

Add me to the list....I have the exact same story.  My husband has been doing it for years...he has cardio issues so we thought it was that....now I  am waking and vomiting phlegm....I believe it is caused by the environment...mold and dust...it seems when people MOVE they get better...????

It is just your sinuses draining down the back of your throat while you are asleep.  2 things to help - sleep upright which is not that comfortable or take sinus night medication to dry up the sinuses.  Good Luck 

I am also having the same issue. It has been going on for about 10 years now. I have been on PPI acid reducers lately, and that helps a bit. waking up and throwing up yellow bile everytime i brush or not is no fun; sometimes its so violent my blood vessels burst in my face and i look like some sort of zombie. i use a very mild toothpaste like aim or pepsodent, and hydrogen peroxide when brushing. i have noticed that helps keep me from gagging sometimes, but not everytime.

I had the same problem when I was a teenager too. I'm now a medical student and trying to get to the bottom of it. Can I ask you all, did any of you get woken up by feeling nauseous/sick? or did it only come on after waking? Also did anybody get nosebleeds, or pass large blood clots from the nose when blowing?

It is because while you are asleep your sinuses are draining into your stomach/lungs.  As mentioned in my previous reply - take 2 sinus tablets each night and after a few days your problems will be over !  

 

I've had this problem since I was a teenager around 13yrs old, I am now 39 and this problem has been getting worst. For the first like 10 years I could drink some soda when I woke up and that would stop it but as I am getting older its getting worst. One doctor thought I could have allergies and gave me pills but that didn't work. Now every morning I have to throw up or I feel bad all day. sometimes I don't actually throw up anything and I feel better afterwords and other days I throw up a lot philme, when I was a teenager I use to have bad acid reflux so bad that I thought I was going to suffacate from the acid but now I don't have acid reflux anymore. I do smoke but I started like 5years ago and I know that isn't the cause but it problem doesn't help me any bit. I walk to work most days and if I don't throw up sometime before I walk anywhere I will start throwing up about a block down the road. I do have poor health and am very heavy and have some mental problems. I think I will try to change my diet a bit, stay away from dairy products and greasy foods for a while and maybe eat more veggies and see what happens. I will post a follow up on here in about a month to tell you what I did and if it helped me at all.

Omg I'm in the same exact situation! I'm about to move across the country so I hope that helps!

I too have had this problem for 2 years and I am really getting sick of it.  Lots of tests and money spent in trying to find out what it is coming from.  I had a pet scan and he doctor said I had an unusual amount of phlem in my head.  Only thing that has worked is if I can get up and have my husband fix me some herb tea and toast right away. Usually I don't make it to the chair.  I am really sick to my stomach in the mornings and sometimes all day long.  It is as if the instant my feet hit the floor I am sick.  Wish someone could figure this out.  I was going to have the nasal surgery but I am reading too many times that people have done this and it hasn't worked.  If anyone finds out anything please let me know.

Add me to the list.  I've had this problem for about 3 years now and it happens every single day.  I noticed though, if I have a chance to sleep in on the weekends, it doesn't seem to happen, or isn't nearly as bad.  I just had a whole bunch of tests done including a nuclear HIDA scan, ultrasound, endoscopy, etc. and of course they say everything looks fine.  Now I'm thinking it's nasal drainage at night because I'm always stuffed up or feel the drainage when I wake up.  Previously I thought it was bile related, but I'm noticing now it's always mucus or mucus and bile mixture.  I just don't know where the drainage is coming from, possibly allergies.  I already take Prilosec and Claritin every day and it doesn't seem to help at all.  Looking for some better allergy meds to see if that helps.

I am in the exact same place. Every morning right when I get up. Dry heaves and almost dry mucous and bile. Probably takes 5 minutes and then done. Ive been taking Prilosec for a long time and sometimes wonder about that too. I do smoke and will have a drink at night too and I know that doesn't help.  I'm wondering how many people here take Prilosec and if that might be part of the problem.