Post Nasal drip, acid relfux, anxiety?

[yarray]

I have had this problem for about a year now. I have this problem with gagging, what seems to be caused by post nasal drip. When i wake up i tend to have a dry mucus build up in the post nasal area of my throat. The thing is when i gagg, trying to free the mucus from my throat, nothing seems to loosen up, which makes me have this feeling of vomiting. These symptoms are 10 fold when i am in any social situation, or have to tend to any type of stressfull situation. I always bring water with me, just for the fact that if i dont sip on anything while im out, i start to panic (and when i mean panic, i have had panic attacks due to this, mostly anxiety attacks now) This situation makes me wonder if i have some kind of disorder affiliated with anxiety or anxiety is just being manifested because of the mucus. My anxiety only seems to go away if i vomit, and i usually do end up vomiting due to the gagging. Usually during the evining hours the mucus tends to flow constantly from the post nasal area.
When i take deep relaxing breaths i can feel stomach muscles below my rib cage tense up and release, but i am not sure if it is my stomach muscles or posibly acid relfux. It feels as if something at the bottom of my esophegous is contracting and releasing, or rising and falling, every time i take deep breaths. Only when i take deep breaths does it seem that my stomach relaxes fully, but goes back to tense almost imidiatly. When the gagging and gastro problem combind together it makes me not want to live.I am 20 years old and have given up smoking about a month ago.Underweight due to prob

[billybeals]

Well i wish i could be the bearer of good news, but i too have similar problems. not sure if anyone can remember when or where their problem started exactly but i can remember mine. 1996 i was skipping school with a friend and he told me to meet him after first bell or he was gonna leave me at school. when i went to the student parking lot he was leaving me. i ran and jumped on the hood of his car and he slammed on the brakes and i was thrown from what i was told forty feet from the car. awaking 14 days later in the hospital i was told that i had a skull fracture. It happened august of 96'. I have not been able to smell since the day i woke up in the hospital.i have had to sleep with a fan right in my face for the past 12 years in order to wake up without a stuffed up nose and not to start gagging. i have  had what it feels like anxiety attacks constantly 12 or 13 times daily hoping that it was just my adrenellan and hoping that i would grow out of it. Well not yet!. i too have what feels like social anxiety attacks when around others. i am unable to work due the the adrenellan feeling and nausea and gagging feeling i get when i move to fast. puking at work is not cool then you have to clean it up and that makes you  puke more. when i get really excited it happens and i cant control it. my wife thinks somethings terribly wrong with me. ha ha ha! well ive had my fun in life i could care less if i go now. i cant take this anymore. i just hope everyone here can find out whats causing it and find their cure. i dont know if anything i have said has help at all or even made things worse. have any of you ever had a major head injury or bumped the back of your noggin? well thats what my problem is. if theres anything anyone figures out please dont hessitate to respond of if any questions. williamanddonna at hotmail.com

[catril]

To add to the above...I failed to mention how exactly these various symptoms reflect mine beginning with yarray's. Probably first of notice was the mucous as the back of my throat (and my mother has had post nasal drip forever though for her it never developed into what i have) so I guess that, pnd, describes the mucous. The symptom that bothers me most (and this isnt even getting to the more recent onset of acid reflux or is it acid reflux...) is the shortness of breath, suffocating etc. and my doctor says that it is inflammation due to allergies--causing all of it. And I should stress that Mucinex D and I am not a salesman works very well as long as I take at least four tablets daily. I feel almost normal. But then the acid reflux started only a year ago.And yet the lurching below my esophagus, like a flutter sometimes, started at least ten years ago. I've started reading the forums one for respiratory and one for gerd. I spoke as though I am paranoid about the implications and I just find it interesting enough to wonder if there is something caustic in our environment to bring this on especially mucous which has fewer life style implications for me than the gerd. I should also say I have had tests. I had a pulmonary test to see if it was in my lungs and it isn't. I had the barium test to see about the gastric end. It ruled out hiatal hernia and I am going to have a sleep apnia test soon. Because I had a week of heart burn recently I need to go back to that other specialist and get a scope but I had hoped ant-acids would work. My Dr's prescription, I may have ignorantly not given it (I've temporarily misplaced the bottle), enough time to work, but it just didn't seem to work etc. If people wonder if this is mentally or stress induced, I'd ask, why now (this isn't the worst time of my life...) and why so very chronically? Wake up in the morning can't breathe, take the Mucinex D, etc.until evening rolls around and if I don't take my fourth Mucinex D I will be short of breath.  

[catril]

This started for me one and a half years ago. I feel I am older, than most of you--46 (and female). I find it very peculiar. The wrenching below my rib cage and they call it "heart burn" when it turns into severe pain to the point of passing out from it. I take Mucinex D and unfortunately it works. It's just so very suspicious how this medication popped up and not long after I started suffering.I have made an effort to find out from whomever I might, pharmacists and doctors, what were people doing for these kinds of symptoms before Mucinex (and the little green thug of the commercials) came along? As for diet? I believe in the effort, I just haven't had any results. If it were just mucus? But it so much more. And found that gagging made me feel a little better mentally.... I have had major depression for almost fifteen years now. Do any of you feel otherwise mentally healthy and yet become distressed and take on these symtoms? I kind of feel that it is more an addition to my mental health problem and not a result of it. Stress yes, but environmental as well? And let me just say I am feeling less alone since going on line today. I regret that others suffer the same but not so surprised and the way the stuff flies off the shelves?

[Gene888]

Have anybody used "Mucinex D" as mucus thinner? It is over the counter medication. They advertise it like this: "Mucinex D thins and loosens the mucus that causes congestion and sinus pressure due to colds or allergies. For a full 12 hours."
Let me know, I want to try.

[ploggin]

I don't really have any problems brushing my teeth.  Its a gaggy feeling, but I also have mucous production - I cough it up each morning.  One morning I even coughed up some blood, but it only happened once.  Lots of burning in my sinuses and chest, as well as stomach - which nobody has been able to explain.

I find that drinking lots and lots of water can sometimes help, have you tried this?  It tends to settle down the nausea or burning a bit.

[yarray]

Do you have a hard time brushing your teeth, because personaly i dont ever go near that.