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Thick mucous in larnyx

I have a continuous problem with thick mucous in my throat.  I must clear my throat a hundred times a day.  My larnyx gets so full of the thick mucous that I almost choke and it causes my eyes to water.  When this happens I hack up about a quarter cup of the stuff.  

I went to an ENT specialist who diagnosed sinusitis due to restricted airflow because of a deviated septum.  After two surgeries for this there is no improvment.  I've tried Musinex and steroid nose sprays.  Nothing seems to help.  

I've read that this could be Laryngopharyngeal reflux and could be treated with Medrol or Budesonide.  Could this be true?


This discussion is related to Excessive Thick Mucous in Throat-- HELP!!!.
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It all has to do with your diet and lifestyle. Follow the Dr.Sebi diet (alkaline diet ) Remove meat, dairy, eggs, sugar &  wheat (Helped me dramatically) Exercise 3-5 days a week. Drink half a gallon of water a day, and make sure to get 9 hours of sleep everyday.
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It is caused from a bacteria in the gut. You need to change get rid of the bad bacteria and replace it with the good. Do some research on the Internet you will found your answers. Here is one site to get you started http://www.livescience.com/23130-chronic-sinus-problems-bacteria.html
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Any of you ever been checked for TMJ? I have had this problem so long that I didn't even realize it was a serious problem. Mucous builds up and I can feel it on the roof of my mouth. Coffee in the morning makes me drain like crazy! Anyways I went to the dentist for a root canal and he mentioned that I have TMJ and asked me if I wanted to be fit for a splint which is something like a retainer to help me realign my tmj.  I said sure whatever thought he was crazy but then he started to ask if I had headaches and where at and if I had neck pain and what do you know its from tmj. He didn't mention the mucous but I got my retainer and wore it to bed that night and OMG I can breathe in the morning! It felt so great~~When I first got the retainer it opened my mouth a bit so my teeth didn't actually touch ( I used to grind my teeth when i was younger so my mouth prolly shouldn't close all the way like it does now.) and now it is worn down a bit from wearing it and I can't wait to go back and have him refit it. Oh the energy I have now because I can actually breathe! If I am in a car with the defrost on I feel like I am suffocating because of all that hot air blown at my face with this mucous in my throat. I am hoping this will be it and I have finally found out what to do about it!
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Drink hot water with lemon, it has helped me a lot
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Lifescience person and Dr. Sebi person are ABSOLUTELY correct.

It's so hard to do things right in our day and age because GMO goods exist to kill us. Read up on that!

Dr Sebi was a genius and Jesus was with him every step of way. Dr. Sebi also says Broccoli and Cauliflower aren't good and Almond Milk has Cyanide in it. Yikes!

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I have the same scary choking sensations that I haven't found a Dr that is knowledgeable enough to figure it out..but I have no insurance for 3 months so I will be following..and as soon as I can research a Dr in my area that knows something I will keep you all updated..thank God I found a place that people understand and I love the tips..thank you
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13512104 tn?1430274030
i have the same thing had ablation of spg nerve thought neurology helped a little, lidocaine helps but cant have that done every day under my left eye. had a septoplasty helped deviated and turbinates were scraped , but I still am even a little bit worse.  the minute I set foot out of the bed it is so thick I feel suffocated. goes on mostly all day long. I am on a food peg an I think that refuxes up too for I am always over the wastebasket.  it Is gross and I sympathize with anyonw having this. I wish they would but money in research for mucus or just common cold mine was that 3 years ago wil be this coming January and lost 70 lbs.  the drs don't seem to care since I got the peg they feel that is keeping me alive but miserable. any hints send them. I find steam helps and hydrocoedene 2 times a day with klonopin to take the pain away.
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Hello Everybody,

Do you guys have difficulties swallowing food and liquids due to the thick mucus?
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Hello Everybody,

Do you guys have difficulties swallowing food and liquids due to the thick mucus?
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Hi all,

I am dying from thick phlegms...I have suffred from PND for more than 7 yrs now...main cause is, i belive, allergic rhinosinusitis. Recently it got worse, now i feel life-threatened every day.

Doctors usuallly says like; it's from your head,..it does not kill you...you are just more sensitive than your symptom...and recently, an elderly allergist who is 70 yrs old who practicing for 30 yrs, said to me..."you know, i think it is your habit of spitting saliva". With a $900 worth of allergy-test, his saying it was an insult to me. I am allergic to many things. Antihistamins or nasal sprays generally did not help.
Many doctors do not understand this well.
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Has anyone come up with an answer. My mucus in white and water. Will ask doctor today to try a steroid for short period
thanks
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My name s Anita I have had chest heaviness for months and coughing at night. Tried everything. 3 weeks ago I had a terrible cold fever sore throat. I took neo Ciaran alternating with Tylenol and cough syrup.  Garbled and used neo pot.  2 days later I was spitting up clumps of green mucus.  Since then coughing and mucus as you mentioned.  I m gonna drink warm water with lemon cause lemon breaks mucus up using neo pot and gargling every 3 - 4 hrs.  I lol let you know.


Anita
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I just had baloon sinusplasty to relieve me of painful gums and sinus problems.  Still have the same problem.  ENT put me on anti-biotics and didn't work.
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I have had this problem for more than 20 years. A few weeks ago I developed a severe fever which my specialist diagnosed as pneumonia. I got sputum test and they isolated Morraxella Catahrris bacteria out it. The antibiotic the doctor gave me cleared my chest, my nasal clogging and took away most of the stale sticky mucus I had for years. I have inhaled tonnes of budenoside, goobled packets of singulair ( very expensive) and even used overused prednosolene at one time, but have never felt better. I got polyps removed thrice, name it, I have been through it. Go to your GP and sweet talk them for sputum checks for Moraxella. It is hard to pick unless they are looking for it. I bet most of you will come off this community. Unfortunately doctors do not believe this bacteria require attention.
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I have had this problem for more than 20 years. A few weeks ago I developed a severe fever which my specialist diagnosed as pneumonia. I got sputum test and they isolated Morraxella Catahrris bacteria out it. The antibiotic the doctor gave me cleared my chest, my nasal clogging and took away most of the stale sticky mucus I had for years. I have inhaled tonnes of budenoside, goobled packets of singulair ( very expensive) and even used overused prednosolene at one time, but have never felt better. I got polyps removed thrice, name it, I have been through it. Go to your GP and sweet talk them for sputum checks for Moraxella. It is hard to pick unless they are looking for it. I bet most of you will come off this community. Unfortunately doctors do not believe this bacteria require attention.
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I have a similar condition. It started after an exposure to glyphosate (Round up). It includes not being able to get food or liquids past the Lower Esophageal Sphincter (LES). I found your discussion today as I was at my wits end, again, with the snot and starvation. Has anyone here tried lugol's iodine solution? Just something I've found in a distantly related search thread.  Have any of the rest of you been diagnosed with, or have symptoms of low or hypothyroid?  On this site ( http://www.laurapower.com/page26.html ) under the 4 functions of iodine , section 1, second full paragraph, she states lack of iodine causes excess mucous production... Most people eating a western diet are iodine deficient. Iodinized salt won't do it. I'm ordering the lugol's from amazon today. We'll see how it goes.
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Sometimes mine is the consistency of a chunk of Jello. Most of the time it is somewhat thicker than molasses.
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Hi Mark,
I am  new to this page. I have been reading all the previous post and am sorta glad I am not the only one with this problem.   I have one question that I have not noticed on previous comments..... do any of you have the mucous so thick that it actually does not dissolve?  Not always, but sometimes during the night I get up and have to sorta gargle  to spit it up.  what lands on my drain is usually there in the morning.. Ugh! I know...
I will try the Singular, which kinda makes sense to me at this time... Thanks for all the post, I hope I didn't gross anyone out...
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Since I started this discussion in 2008 i have been through the wringer. I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2012. The treatment just about killed me. In fact, you might say it did. I had a massive heart just after treatment and was given CPR, which brought me back after having no vital signs for eight minutes.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I still have the same problem with mucous, and am still looking for a cure. I did have a temporary respite when I quit drinking orange juice, but the problem returned within months.

You know how all the medical practitioners say to drink eight glasses of water a day to stay hydrated?  The common opinion seems to be that increasing hydration will help thin out the mucous. Drinking all that water did not help me. In fact, I couldn’t choke that much down every day.

I just found something online that seems promising. It’s called CELLULAR HYDRATION. (hydration within the cells) Here's the URL to the site. http://www.richmondreview.com/lifestyles/173973921.html

Dr. Neetu Dhiman, at this site states that drinking all that water does nothing to improve cellular hydration. It only increases the hydration between cells.  Dr. Neetu Dhiman, is a Naturopathic Physician at Brio Integrative Health Centre Inc.  She can be reached at ***@****

She claims that using Celtic or Himalayan Sea salt will greatly increase cellular hydration. This is not the Sea Salt that is available in most grocery stores. It is unrefined, unprocessed, unheated, untreated sea salt in its natural form – with about eighty minerals that are removed in processing table salt. These minerals are claimed to improve cellular hydration. I just got some at a health food store and will post whether or not it seems to be helping. I did notice already, that about ¼ tsp of this salt in a tall glass of water is delicious, and I can drink more water with comfort.

Ed




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OMG. I sat here today and read all the comments and am shocked as well that no one can find a cure for this problem. I have the same thing some morning are worse then others some times I cough so hard trying to get this mucus up I start gagging not any fun. I get so tired after a bout with this I just want to go to bed. I have had this problem for going on 5 years now. The Drs say its Silent Gerd taken Nexium no help, Asthma, Allergies. They now tell me I have COPD which makes it worse, can't breath and coughing up all this mucus. Tried the Neti Pot no luck, nasal sprays, vaporizers. Have a chocking spell on my food or water at times and start coughing and spitting up mucus for about 30 min. What seems to quite the coughing is a piece of cinnamon candy & peppermint tea.
I have to go to a Pulmonologist on the 29th because after I have a coughing attack having a hard time breathing. Going to try Fenugreek powder and see if that helps. Its really a shame as far as we have come in the medical world that no one can figure out this problem.  
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I've had this issues for 12 years now and it started after I got Lyme Disease.  I have a 98% blocked deviated septum, sinusitis and severe chronic asthma.  I get thick white sticky frothy mucus in my throat every day- every hour -every minute and I am constantly "coughing up a lung".  I have tightness in my chest- severe dizziness, severe swelling/pain/heaviness in my legs (like concrete) and my BP soots up to 185/120 at night.  (normal for me is 90/60)  and my temp drops to 93.3.

I am completely exhausted every minute of the day and have heart palpitations and arrhythmias constantly.  The pulm. doc told me I have PND and Acid reflux also- I haven't been able to swallow anything other than liquids for 12 yrs and  any liguid makes it worse.  I also found out I have Hashimotos and my thyroid has millions of nodules all over it- making things worse- especially when my lyme kicks in and swells everything up.  (Lyme is a disease of inflammation.)  I have the quality of life of a 98 yr old man in a nursing home.  All the docs have given up and don't care that I almost choke to death every day.  If you are a woman over 40 - you don't matter.  If they suffered the way I do- they would start caring.
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I don't know if I should cry.  Maybe get on some anti-depressant meds.  After reading nearly 8 years of comments.  No one came back and said I am cured and this is gonna help you.
I am a man and 47, my mucus clearing in my throat began at 40.  Never had an alergy in my life.  
Done all the usual.  Barrium swallow, twice down the throat with the camera.
ENT.  tried every over the counter meds for alergies.  Predinizone 3 times, flonase.  Went to alergy doc.  No alergies what so ever.
The did find the hiatal hernia.  a ring and some damage near my throat from acid.  the sore leaks acid.  
they put me on proton pump inhibitors.  5 weeks now, no help with the clear sticky mucus.
i stopped all coffee, black tea,  no junk food.  no dairy.  no wheat, no gluten.
6 weeks.  no help.
i will stop red meat next.  so just veggies, fruit. fish chicken.  i stopped all pork already.
ACV.  apple cider vin, does help a little.  i juice tumeric, ginger, grapefruit, honey, acv,  pinch of celtic sea salt.  seems to help a little.  i do that before bed and helps me sleep.
a take melatonin.  that does help me sleep.
but i havent found anything that stops this constant throat clearing.
its depressing.  I read about some of you who have it way worse than me.
How do you keep sane.  I am at wits end.  Pause, cleared my throat.  LOL.
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I have the same thing gel like bubbles and thick long rubbery flesh colored things they r sometimes a ball too but they pull apart or unroll into longer worm looking things its freaking me out.
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have the same thing,  bubbles like gel I spit in a clear plastic cup and they stayed for days, I think its some sort of worm or parisite that is in my sinus and lungs. I caugh up thick rubbery strands of mucus type looking stuff which has sometime a sort of flesh color I think they r the eggs of the parisite.
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