Phlegm in my throat and post nasal drip after Covid

Hello,

I believe I have been suffering from this since August or Sept of 2019, a few months before Covid I believe my infection was military related after a sexual encounter with an Iranian woman. This is strange to describe but imagine the hawk tuah girl gave you a mucus blowjob… this particular woman had this mucus condition so it may potentially be contagious as obviously confirmed by all of you saying you got it by way of Covid.. makes complete sense to me Iran and china cooperation I got a super early exposure of. I know for sure this started before I actually had Covid or the vaxx in summer 2022.

The particular symptoms which all of you describe started for me back then in summer 2019 So going on 5 years.

Things that help:
-hawk Lugies
- stay hydrated
-work out
-pull up the mucus create vacuum and hawk lugie

Freedom forever!

Harder spirits such as vodka drinks can also break down the thick mucus! Enjoy!

Also I keep a bottle in the car for my lugies and I observe the consistency … heat loosens it to almost water like consistency if it’s left in a hot car. So drinking certain warm or hot liquids or even getting hot or working out and sweating out it all helps . Cheers!

Freedom forever !

I’m also not entirely convinced half of the sensation is just caused by the epiglottis touching a wall so I can send a small ball of air to separate things down to my stomach on command. It can relieve things decently!

Enjoy!

Freedom forever!

Seriously do push-ups to failure you’ll feel better the rest of the day.

I have found a similar product in my country, italy, made with same ingredients Elecampane
Thyme White horehound licorice
I consumed a bottle of 200 ml, 15 ml 3 / day, but no luck.
I believe something in us has changed, in our nose and or throat.

There was a post quite a while back about this kind of phlegm which I also have had for 3 years now .

The individual said their pulmonary specialist diagnosed it as " laryngopharaengeal reflux" .

I read up a bit about it and found this, too:

" Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is a syndrome caused by reflux of gastric contents into the pharynx or larynx which leads to symptoms of throat clearing, hoarseness, pain, globus sensation, cough, excess mucus production in the throat, and dysphonia. LPR is a challenging condition as there is currently no gold standard for diagnosis or treatment and thus presents a burden to the healthcare system. "
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9012673/

I have nasal congestion too. Most nights my left nostril is very stuffy. Nose runs water, even though I have dry eye. And, this didn’t happen to me until after covid. I guess it could be coincidence. Idk.

Well, after almost 2 years of Covid thick mucous in the back of my throat and excessive saliva in my mouth, it is finally getting better. I contribute that to using NAC (supplement) and an antihistamine sometimes at night & irrigating my sinuses daily. I will say this, if I get a sinus infection, I load up again with it until the antibiotic clears it up.

I Praise the Lord I no longer have to scrape my tongue daily and I am not using as much Peroxdyl (Colgate).

Bless you all that battle this. It is no fun for sure.

Ah . . . My symptoms are very close to yours. One nostril is obstructed much of each day and night, and there is also intermittent runny nose, all in the absence of positive findings for any sinus infection or nasal polyps (so far). I have a 25-year history of severe dry and my obstructed nostril (and I don´t mean ¨obstruction¨ literally, since the jury is still out on whether there is any physical blockage or, rather, just impaired airflow) is on the same side as my much more severe dry eye. So my working theory is that whatever disorder produced dry eye in my late adult life (and itś not Sjogrenś, btw) also left me vulnerable to severe drying of my nose and sinuses -- and the severe dryness, post-COVID, has, in turn, damaged ciliary function on at least one side of the nose, slowing down both inspiratory and expiratory air flow. I have put myself on long-term dosing of Ivy Leaf (with Thyme) to improve ciliary function (and this can help in lower respiratory airways, too), without any clear result from that so far, and have now moved on to regular use of serrapeptase (chosen very reluctantly, since this was first discovered in and extracted from silkworms who would never consent to this exploitation of them, if given a voice). I am only in the very early days of trying serrapeptase (and other enzymes that I get from a product called MucoStop), but I believe that I may possibly be responding with some improvement to the serrapeptase. That said, I have also been following a thiamine/B1 repletion protocol all this time, with my doctorś approval, based on our observation that a multitude of other problems I have had since childhood are all often associated with either thiamine deficiency or a hereditary inability to absorb or store thiamine derived from diet. That protocol involves steady trial and error on best type and dose of thiamine for oneś particular needs, but since I have been pursuing this B1 protocol for a month or more, my possible very recent improvement may reflect some response to thiamine repletion. Your post, in any case, has reinforced my sense that those of us who have dry eye syndrome (and we know who we are, because we are NOT talking about the slightly annoying dryness/grittiness/burning that almost all humans sometimes experience, and are, instead, talking about what can be a seriously disabling and painful ocular surface disease) may bring to COVID some metabolic problem that opens us to risk for chronic sinonasal problems. This is NOT to say that we cannot recover, though. To do so, however, we probably have to reach long into our pasts to discover vulnerabilities that may explain why long COVID has manifested in us the particular way it has chosen. If you explore serrapeptase, please be sure to look into dose levels that have been both clinically tested, on the one hand, and anecdotally reported in the nootropic community, on the other, and please closely observe the rules for taking this enzyme on a truly empty stomach and seeking out a product that has been made acid-resistant. I will see my third ENT doctor next week, and if he detects anything newly enlightening, will try to report that here soon.

I appreciate the input. I will explore the supplements you describe.

How are you sure you don’t have Sjogrens? I have tested negative on blood tests multiple times. Still….my neurologists have referred me to Rheumatologist for consult. Since I can’t get to her before August, my neurologist is proceeding with the labs next week. I bet it’s negative and I don’t really want a lip biopsy. Hopefully, just a saliva volume test.

Return to ENT next week too.

Oh, by the way I had B12 deficiency and am in 1000 mcg sublingual per day indefinitely.