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

Having the exact same issue.

This issue for me started roughly 2/3 years ago. It started around the same time i got tonsillitis.

I've been on Lansoprazole since, in the first instance it seem to help and made it disappear, but over the last 18 months or so i just constantly feel like i have mucas or food stuck in my throat.

The tonsils have come out, as i kept getting really bad tonsillitis, 4/5 times a year to a point where i was literally bed bound.

I'm currently waiting for an endoscopy, although i doubt this will show anything abnormal?

After reading some of the replies on here and some of the things people have had done or tried, i feel like this will never get sorted. 

In terms of hair loss. Yes, i feel like the hair loss started around the same time this started. My crown is really thin. Not sure if it's at all related though?

I have had a similar experience.

 

Growing up I always found that drinking a lot of water and sleeping on my back always seemed to improve my cognitive abilities and my feeling of wellness. I never thought I was sick as it was all that I knew.

 

In 2007 I begun drinking a lot more water. I found that the more water I drank at once the better I felt faster. I was drinking about 1.5 to 2 liters at once every 30 minutes. I did not understand back then why I felt better, I just knew it worked for me. The only downside with drinking copious amounts of water was my body seemed to be retaining the water and I felt really puffy. Also, I think I forced my stomach to expand which meant I felt hungrier more easily and ate a lot me to feel satisfied. The sum total effect of this was rapid weight gain. I went from about 70 to 95 kilos within a very short time.

 

As a compromise, I begun reducing my water intake. I limited it to a few liters a day at night. I also noticed that taking hot water helped better than when I took cold water - but the effect was not quite the same as when I took large amounts of water at once.

 

In 2012 I moved to a house with carpeting. I live on a fairly hot and humid island that requires the running of air-conditioning and fans virtually any time you are in the house. This is where things started going downhill for me. After a few weeks my nasal passage felt like it was on fire and I had painful consistent pressure on my forehead.

 

Things kept getting worse to the point my brain was not functioning as it should and I was not getting much sleep. I would toss and turn all night. I am fairly articulate when feeling normal - but the inflammation was so bad that I would struggle to find common words and compose coherent sentences. And thus begun my long and expensive journey visiting various specialists with no real help or improvement.

 

Scans revealed I had a deviated septum but like most people posting the ENT did not think that it was that bad. I also performed the pricking allergy test and I was found to be hyper allergic to quite a few common allergens including dust and mound.

 

I ended up perfuming balloon sinoplasty and getting a correction of the deviated septum but that did not seem to help much. I also commenced weekly allergy shots to desensitize my body to the allergens and gave up 6 months in.

 

The most relief I got came when I finally decided to move houses to one without carpeting. By the time I was moving houses, my tossing and turning had worn out the base board on my side of the bed creating a tear in the material. My wife’s side was practically new. Had a tough time explaining that one to the landlord.

 

Luckily I had very good insurance that meant I could seek out the best help I could find and after visiting John Hopkins and the Cleveland Clinic and all specialists basically pronouncing they could find nothing wrong with me, I started to despair.

 

Oh- prior to this I had very bad acidity that felt like ulcers, but no ulcers would show up on the scans or when they put the cameras up by behind.

 

One of the ENT's suggested that since I had not had much luck with the sinus approach I could consider it being a dental approach. Until then my teeth had more or less normal issues and were not particularly bad. Although as a result of feeling like a zombie for years my oral care was not at the level it should be.

 

My dentist advised that he saw nothing wrong with me though one of my wisdom teeth was impacted and growing below the gum. It had probably been like this since I was a teenager. I am now 37. I insisted that he extract the tooth. This was the next best decision I made in relation to my condition.

 

The part of the tooth that was growing under my gum was badly decayed and although I do not have any scientific proof of it, was contributing to my feeling to crappy for so long. Soon after my stomach issues improved quite a bit and I was no longer in constant pain. My sinuses also made a remarkable improvement but were not completely healed. I believe that this one tooth was trapping and acting like a culture for bacteria which I swallowed day in day out for very many years. This one act alone improved the quality of my life significantly.

 

In my pursuit for feeling better I have had a few other teeth extracted. This was against the advice of my dentist. One tooth was so damaged that it could not have been saved despite not showing any signs of damage on the x-rays -and 2 were fairly healthy - so it is a hit and miss. There was some improvement with the extraction of the damaged tooth.

 

Although I have come a long way in my journey to find wellness I still suffer sometimes and my quality of life has been heavily impacted.

 

The things that I find help are taking a mucus thinner - specifically Mucinex. Only the blue drowsy one seems to work for me. However for this to work I need to keep taking hot water all day.

 

I have never performed sinus rinses for more than a month but find these even when done together with steroid nasal sprays have had little or no effect.

My right jaw has always been paining and I had erroneously concluded that my teeth were causing the sinus issues until I discovered pseudoephedrine. I had pursued a diagnosis of a osteomyelitis of the jaw as my symptoms were consistent however this was ruled out by a specialist I saw.

I noticed that when I took pseudoephedrine my symptoms improved greatly including the jaw and tooth pain leading me to conclude it was a sinus issue. Only down side was the insomnia and after a few days of taking it the rebound congestion got worse.

If you are having similar issues I suggest:

1.       Drinking a lot of water at once. This though I later learnt is dangerous as it can affect your bodily balance. So medical supervision is a must.

2.       Drinking hot water consistently during the day

3.       Mucinex- mucus thinner

4.       Pseudoephedrine – decongestant

I will update as I explore what else works for me.

 

Hi, I have the ex

This sounds like lupus possibly, anyways try vitamin C, I have this and also no answers other than Its common on lupus and I have lupus, I accidently discover taking vitamin C makes it go away but you gotta take alot and give it time, Usually for the most part works same day.

This sounds like lupus possibly, anyways try vitamin C, I have this and also no answers other than Its common on lupus and I have lupus, I accidently discover taking vitamin C makes it go away but you gotta take alot and give it time, Usually for the most part works same day.

I have same SYMPTOMS..after 8 months of same thing 3 specialists, hundreds of dollars in medications...and was just diagnosed w LPR (SILENT REFLUX) IT EVEN AFFECTs ASTHMA..Taking Nexium, Zantac AND following Refux (LPR) diet...Post nasal much better...

hi derek , i would like to pass this on to any one who suffers how we are suffering .i have stopped eating dairy products ,and what a difference inmy nose i am so happy as like you guys it is not very pleasant . please try this and if it works can you post it .hope it works for you ..evelyn davies

I am so sorry you all are going through this also!  I too thought I was alone.  Mine started about 15 months ago when I got a really bad cold, sinus infection etc and was sick for a month.  I had it before that but not to the same extent as now.  I CONSTANTLY have to clear my throat, and it drives me batty!  Sometimes my throat gets really sore from it.  People have started to notice, I have to apologize to people all the time about it.  I’m sure it’s driving my friends, family and co-workers nuts!  I also have been to several docs including ENTs who keep blaming reflux due to nothing of note on the scope.  I tried that omeprazole reflux med with no results, also Flonase, nasel spray and  Azelastine nasel spray, along with nasel rinse and mucinex.  Nothing helps.  I noticed it does get worse when I eat things with oil in them or like now that I have a cold it’s really bad.  I’m so tired of it, and it’s really disheartening to hear all the things the rest of you have gone through with little to no improvements.  I won’t waste my time now that I am starting to try some of these things that haven’t worked.  I am hoping that by joining this forum, someday, someone will have a positive result that will help us all.