mucous in throat can't swallow it away! and thirsty all the time.

[SHMILY]

I was reading in book on nutrition , Judy Lindberg's Growing Old without Aging, that acid reflux is caused from poor digestion and not enough acid in your stomach. She suggested that you need panathenic (sp) acid or hydrocloric acid. I have also been taking digestive enzymes and they seem to help. They also help you absorb more of your nutrients. It would be better to treat the problem and not the symptoms. I haven't tried the panathenic acid or hydrocloric acid yet. This might be worth researching.

[Dokayko]

Has anyone had this problem!!! I am bloated, thickness in my throat that moves from larynx to up behind my nose. I had endoscopy and colonoscopy that showed mild esophagitis and mild gastritis. I just had this done last week. Has anyone thought about a possible bacteria? I'm checking this out with my allergist next week. I showed negative for Pylori but it could be candida or a host of others. There's a bacteria that can live in your small intestines and cause problems. Great Smokey Diagnostic Labs has some fantastic tests that are non-evasive if you can get your doctor to order them!!! Thanks for any help.

[HarajukuGurl2005]

[QUOTE=Neverenoughslee]First of all, its great speaking with you on this. Its nice to find someone who can relate.

Regarding what you said about the mucous. I wonder too if its more the sensation and the need to clear my throat. I think for me, anxiety makes it seem worse. As humans, we are not "supposed" to feel anything foreign in our throats. So the sensation from the irritation, mixed with whatever mucous IS there, casues me to focus on those sensations, thus possibly making it seem worse than it actually is.


I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND how you guys feel. I honestly believe it's just a little bit of mucus in our throat. The other day I had hacked up a ball of mucus, spit it out, and felt a huge sense of relief! For a few minutes I felt like I had nothing stuck in my throat. Then, it came back and felt miserable.

I just dont understand where the mucus is coming from? Does our body produce it to protect us from the irritation?

[Dokayko]

I went to allergist and he put me on Zyrtec which helped a little but now we've added Nasonex which has really helped me the last few days, I now feel like eating again. Sometimes my throat feels tight in front by my neck but I think of mucous hang in there, it can cause irritation. This mucous is from drainage and said he sees 7-8 patients a day with this same thing. I thought when the ENT's told me my sinuses were clear that meant no drainage but I guess not even though I kept feeling like it was coming out of my sinuses. I haven't been tested for environmental allergies, just for the foods to see what was causing the bloating. I'm also taking one prilosec a day just in case reflux is part of it. Also your body produces tons of mucous a day and I think if you breathe a lot out of your mouth it adds to the work it has to do.

[Cherbo64]

I posted this on another thread, but it has a lot of info that has helped me, so I am posting it in a couple of others as well:

Hi all,

I'm a newly (self diagnosed) LPRer myself. On March 4 I went to the ER with hot fire in my lungs. After a complete cardiac work up (5 days in the hospital including a cardiac cath to investigate what turned out to be a shadow of my breast tissue), a visit to a pulmonologist (and treatment for pleurisy including steroids which really did a number on my stomach), a GI (who treated me for GERD with Nexuim and Zantac) an ENT (who sent me back to the GI), and back to my family doc I decided to get on the internet and figure out what the heck is going on. As soon as I saw the first LPR post I knew what I had.

I called my family doc and got on Nexuim 40 mg twice a day. That was 3 weeks ago and already it's MUCH better. I had to fight my insurance company to get them to cover it, but they did.

I've been fighting this for two months now and so I have learned a few tricks.

Some things that have really helped me:

1. The Nexium 40 mg twice a day - the only way to go. The others aren't as good. Protonix didn't help at all. They say I will need to take this for 6 months before I even consider tapering back down.

2. Sleep with a warm mist humidifier right by your head.

3. Drink at least 5 big glasses of water per day.

4. Rest your voice. Write notes - especially in the evening.

5. Eat a GERD-friendly diet. No it's not what we have, but the principles of food choice are similar. You want to eat only low acid and low fat.

6. Try standing up or walking around after you eat. The exercise seems to help me keep stuff in my stomach and out of my throat.

7. .25 mg of Xanax helped me when my throat was really tight and constricted. Yes, it has been shown to lower LES pressure, but it works for the strangling feeling.

8. There was a stud in Belgium regarding the use of Baclofen for increasing LES pressure. My doc prescribed it (cause I asked for it) but I only tried it once and refluxed it onto my already raw vocal chords so I didn't try again.

9. NO CARBONATED SODA. It really acts on the throat thing.

10. Visit a speech therapist for "vocal hygiene" (how to cough and not hurt yourself - that kind of thing). There's also an exercise that helps relax the "cramp" in the throat and helps that mucous to drain.

11. Should be #1 - PRAY. God has really been active in helping me through this. I am a better person and much stronger in my faith.

Hang in there and if your doctor isn't listening (or has no idea what you are talking about) find another one. I've never been a doctor hopper before, but this is a tough illness with few experts (except us patients )

God Bless!