Thick mucous in larnyx

[edaho]

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!!!.

[edaho]

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

[ldyfrmaz]

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.  

[harriedanghopeless]

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.

[ThroatClearer]

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.

[lizardinmystomach]

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.

[lizardinmystomach]

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.