2 years of throat clearing, thick mucus and post nasal drip sensation (allergy/reflux/nerve?)

I think you may have something here the article you posted seems to explain some of my symptoms.

What is it?

Naphazoline HCL is a vasoconstrictor and can cause nasal rebound congestion. Diphenhydramine HCL is an antihistamine; you could also take a pill. I would NOT use this stuff.

Thanks for the info

I believe this is the only 100% cure.

It has been for me, Dave. I've been able to reintroduce starch (with no reactions) but still not able to eat Gluten and Yeast foods yet without symptoms returning. I'm guessing the yeast is cross reacting with the gluten sensitivity. (To my immune system it all looks the same).

It's work - to avoid the problem foods, and heal the gut so that you can reintroduce them - I guess a lot of people don't want to try... But for me the symptoms got so bad I had no choice. The upside is, not only does the chronic throat clearing and blocked sinus issue go away, I also sleep better (I can breathe!) and feel better... when I avoid them.

Healing your gut is the only way to deal with this if you don't want a cascade of health issues further down the track. It is, in my opinion, a slippery slope from food intolerance to leaky gut, to autoimmune diseases... and worse... This thing we have, is not a BAD THING our bodies are doing to us, but a reaction to the BAD FOODS were continually eating. Our bodies have not gone wrong, rather they're telling us something IS wrong.

Has there been any fruits you have had to avoid also I.e high sugar fruits.

I flare up of certain fruits, especially if I drink certain fruit juices like apple or orange juices.

Too add I'd also say the dietary approach is very similar to a Ketogenic diet, apart from the fact that your consuming fruits.

 i used to rink apple and pear squash and found that flared mine up so i stopped using it but since i have gone lactose free i dont suffer half as much i can bear it now i can go ttwo or 3 days without a flare then 2 or 3 with one 

 

Dave, I personally seem to be fine with sugar, honey, and fruits, but I do avoid everything processed as much as I can, so I don't eat a lot of the sweet stuff.

My issue, for the longest time was starch... Rice. Potatoes. Grains. Thickeners... Chestnuts... Tapioca... it was ridiculous. If I ate the tiniest bit, mucus... and not breathing during my sleep... for days after! My symptoms would normally start 24 hr's after earting.

I did a long round of herbal antimicrobials and I'm now able to eat starch without producing mucus!

So... based on that, I personally think what's going on, is Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO).

If it's sugar that is an issue for you, I would look instead at SIFO (The F standing for Fungus, or, Candida) which is exactly the same... an opportunistic overgrowth of the Small Intestine, but instead of bacteria, it would be a yeast/fungal stain.

The sugar would be feeding it. So, when you eat it, it feeds the overgrowth, which stimulates the immune system, and the body produces mucus to try and clear it out, but can't... So we're sort of hooked in an endless cycle.

There's many websites that advice how to clear it. I personally haven't managed to entirely yet, but I've come to believe I have an underlying Gluten Intolerance (perhaps Celiac) so everytime I was eating wheat I was damaging my gut, slowing my system down (constipation) and allowing the bacteria to take over in the slowed transit system that the wheat was creating, and then I would have symptoms again.

Definitely for me, this is a food/gut issue. So, I've just gone gluten free. I'm hoping this might be the missing piece of the puzzle, and so far it seems to be working. No Gluten or Yeast, and I'm symptom free.

This is my experience. I hope it helps you in some way. If anything is the same for you, please do let me know. I think we're going to get much further along in this by comparing experiences, experimenting and figuring it out ourselves, than we are by going to doctors and being given meds. Good luck with it.

I'm currently reading 'Keto for Cancer', so I know that the Keto diet is beneficial to many people, but I over ate protein on it, big time. I also came to see fat as not being a particularly nutritious food... so if you compare the nutritional composition of fat vs. other food you're eating an almost 80% empty diet. The other problem for me became that it's not necessarily favourable to the microbiome, which I think is essential for health... Our gut bacteria seem to like carbohydrates and starches... plants and fibers... So I dont know... I if I toss up the pros and cons... I'm not sure.

As far as being fat adapted goes, it definitely helped me. I'm no longer hyperglycemic and hangry... I no longer have sugar crashes and afternoon naps... keto did help enormously with that. I also lost 5kg in the first month, and felt great! But I was eating avo and bacon, and cream and butter... So I don't know if I was sustainably healthy! 🤣

It's difficult to know, for me personally, whether it's a healthy option or not. So I eat more ancestral/primal... with black and red rice and sweet potato, and I like to get the health benefits from fasting now, which I do regularly.

A few days of water, gives me what eating a full time Keto diet would do.

But I think, horses for courses, whatever works for you is great!

My number one course of action for anyone with this mucus thing going on though, is cut out the gluten! However you get there, whatever diet works for you, exclude the gluten. If that doesn't work on it's own, look deeper... yeast, starch, sugar... investigate and eliminate...

I accidentally ate some Teriyaki sauce yesterday (made from wheat) and my mucus is back. 😞

My friend just graduated from a nutrition course and has investigated it all and says that meats, chicken, fish cause inflammation which causes disease, so I am mostly cutting them out and eating more veggies. It just came out too that people who eat some carbs live longer than those on keto.

That's simply not true. Protein from meat, poultry and fish is the least inflammatory food, alongside vegetables. Most people with food intolerance can tolerate meat, fish and vegetables better than anything else.

But regardless - vegan or Paleo -

which ever perspective you choose, the issue - mucus - is what we need to combat... and I think it's due to gluten.

Vegans tend to eat a lot more gluten in their substitute/fake foods. But if you can remove the gluten and all the processed foods, AND all the animal foods and still eat tasty meals that contain all the nutrition your body needs, do it!

“Low-carb diets could shorten life,” was that ONE study's findings...

... and it was based on a very limited observational study that didn't focus on anything other than asking participants to remember what they ate.

"Could". Uh huh.

And then you compare that to the work of Miriam Kalamian who's saving lives using it...

I'd say the findings are all but useless, unless you're a vegan splatter-bombing forums like these with silly silly comments, or a CEO of a carb producing food factory who loves headlines like this appearing in the media, so that purple eat more of your processed laden carbs.

Do you think a donut has equal weight to a vegetable?

Get over yourself. No one wants such rude comments here while we are all trying to find a solution. 

Because Nita, I've spent all this time and effort trying to figure out and find a solution to the mucus. Over two years of experimenting with diets and elimination, to find out the cause...

If it was meat and poultry and fish, I'd say it was meat and poultry and fish.

I'm not just going to say because "my friend" said so that it's this or that.

That's ridiculous! Does she even have the mucus thing going on? Do you?

If you did, I'd think you'd be willing to try anything to get rid of it!

My post is based on research and experimentation... And, I go to all the efforts to tell people on here, what I've found out, and the first response (yours) completely opposes what I've said!

I get that people don't want to give up their favourite carbs... They're addictive. And they give us pleasure because they work on the same receptors in the brain as crack... And animals and their farming practises can be scapegoats for everything because no one wants to see them killed... But at least give what I've said a go! Instead of just out of the door refuting what I personally have found to be the only cure!

I'm only trying to help. I'm not preaching a diet. But at least what I'm saying is based on personal experience and not just hearsay from your friend. What have you actually contributed towards solving this chronic miserable condition?

I been on here for almost 2 years and I appreciate all your contributions in trying to resolve this Chronic condition.   I like to thank everyone who have seen Specialists and saved me the trouble in traveling down that road.  It is oblivious that this disease only came about within the last decade or two.  Because my Primary Care Physician looked at me as though the symptoms I was describing was all in my mind.   I still think anxiety and certain foods  are the causes of the  symptoms.   The autoimmune system plays a part in over producing the mucus.  

I want to reiterate that this mucus started after I'd had this cold for four whole months, the same cold. It was like a super cold. I caught it from my grandson who gave it to his mom, too. They all got over the cough after 4 months, but I did not. At first, the cough was dry. Then after 2 years, the cough became wet and I kept swallowing the mucus I coughed up. The mucus is thick and pure white.

Now, every now and then it all goes away for a week or ten days. No symptoms whatsoever. But then it comes back. So what does that even tell us?

Another thing that has happened since this started 3 years ago, occasionally when I eat, my nose runs, and that never ever happened before this started. In fact, my whole life, I have rarely had to blow my nose.

same here .. my problem also started. from a month long cold 2 years ago.. in 1st year cough was more than the post nasal drip but from 2nd year PND is more than cough. cough has gone down little .. my pnd is all year long .. little less in summer but extreme in winter ..