Constant mucous in my throat

Phlegm in the throat is one of the most frequently reported symptoms of extra-oesophageal reflux affecting 64% of patients and second only to hoarseness affecting 70%.

Your PPI may not have any effect on it. PPIs are required to reduce acid so the reflux is less harmful.

You will need to manage the reflux with all the standard ifestle changes but principally not over-filling your stomach, leaving at least 3 hours between your last meal and retiring and raising the bedhead by 6 to 8 inches.

See the chapter on extra-oesophageal reflux in the free www DownWithAcid org uk book / website.

PPIs did not help me.  Like others have mentioned, they only reduce acid, but they do not eliminate the acid.

Here are the three things that helped me, but I still get a little mucos once in awhile.  I have had a Endoscopy, which showed my throat has complete healed, dispite getting the mucos.  I believe the mucos is simply your throats reaction to protecting itself from the acid/irritation.  Anyway, back to my list.

1) Reduce your stress.  Read, preferrable 30 minutes before bed.  

2) Drop the acidic foods.  No alchohol, unless it's Miller 64, Bud 55, or any other super light beer, and only have on a fairly empty stomach.  No citrus fruits; oranges, tomatoes, etc.  Lemons are super good for you, so I suggest mixing in some with a PH balanced smoothy (8oz almond milk, banana, little bit of bluebeeries, lots of spinach and kale, chai seed is my favorite.)  The more you stay away from acidic foods, the less acidic your stomach will be.  Don't look at the foods as losing your favorite foods, instead try to view foods as getting healthy.  I do feel a lot better since switching to a healthier diet.  If you focus on "losing" foods, it only increases stress (and reflux).

3) Meditate at least 10 minutes each day.  Use Breathing excersices, such as belly breathing.

Since you may still get stomach juices on your throat, the healing process is longer than you may expect.  Hence why keeping stress under control is important, but also very difficult.

OH, one more thing.  I too had gotten irritation from talking.  I found that since I had the irritated throat, I had unintentionally changed how I spoke.  Whenever I was speaking to someone, I was tense, as was my throat.  When you're speaking, try to keep your throat muscles relaxed, and take a slow deep breaths while talking.  Speak slowly, and stay relaxed as much as possible.

Now if I could only get rid of the horrible burping every 15 minutes.  I have no idea where this is coming from.  I never used to have it, until after I started PPIs.  I quit the PPIs after 10 days, but the burping never went away.  My theory is that it reduced the stomach acid so much, which allowed bacteria to overpopulate my small intestines.  I believe when I eat, the overpopulation of bacteria is pushing gas back up into my stomach.  If I could get rid of the burping, I believe I would be cured.  I am no longer on PPIs, so I'm pretty sure I have enough acid in my stomach now, and the food seems to move out of my stomach in a timely manner.

Hi Relly! Stay off milk and milk chocolate. It's very bad for making mucus. For the sore throat, gargle with cold black tea or salt water. I find sipping neat blackcurrant juice such as Ribena, helps a lot. To keep the body's production of mucus down, make an infusion of thistle roots by chopping the cleaned and peeled roots into small pieces and boiling them up for several minutes while crushing them. Let it cool and drink slowly. half a cup should be enough, and it is almost tasteless. I used to get very bad and painful  blockages from a hernia at the bottom of the oespophagus and have had complete relief for many years using these techniques. No guarantees, of course, as we are all different and what works for me may not work for you, but worth a try and next to no cost involved. Can't do any harm! Good luck with it.