Continued Post-Nasal Drip and Constant Mucus in Throat

I have had the exact same symptoms since I had Covid for the first time at the beginning of June.

I have had sinus allergies all my life, (80 yrs) so constant drainage is common for me. However, during and for several weeks after my 2 Covid bouts, I had more free flowing back throat drainage that finally did clear up, back to the point of normalcy for me. During my first bout, Sept 2023, I had severe and painful coughing that left me with a hernia reaching from my breast bone down to my navel. Dr. doesn't seem concerned about it unless it starts causing me any trouble, which it has not up to this point. I also have permanent double vision resulting from the first Covid. My vision is good straight forward, but moving my eyes any more than about 10 degrees to either side, I see double. The eye Dr. cannot fix it, but I have learned to compensate. My second bout, which I am just getting over, was much lighter, mostly slight coughing, extreme loss of energy and burning sinus headache. Only lasted about 5 days. Just low on energy now. I have also developed chronic dry eye but I can't tie it to Covid. I had Cataract surgery last year, but dry eye started before that. I try to stay away from actual medications in treating my allergy problems and have worked it down to where I use an OTC saline nasal spray for dryness, when needed. For more severe but infrequent problems I use Nasonex or equavalent only once per day, as directed, for only a couple of days, along with a saline lavage for a flush, which works well for me. Then it is usually gone for several weeks or maybe months. It took me many years but I have finally gotten my problems down to a very manageable level. Maybe I have just learned to live with it. Overall, I am pretty healthy.

Same feeling here. Going to a doc just feels i am talking to a wall. Thankful to find this forum to see there are others who are going through the same symptoms and hopefully find a collaborative fix.

Like most people here I have combined doctors advice with my own experimentation and this is what works for me. I take one tablet of Zyrtek at around 7pm every day. If I start to wheeze, especially before bedtime, I use my Albuterol inhaler which loosens up the phlegm over the following 15 mins.

Hope this works for others.

I'm having the same ongoing issue. I feel like I'm drowning in Mucus. I hope something changes as it's super annoying.

I am so grateful for this group & the input from all. I had "a virus " and tested negative in trip to ER in April 2023. Have had ugly productive cough since then. Tried all OTC remedies. Saw 3 specialists; allergy, ENT, Lung clinic , over this past yr. Have really had to work my own program & do my best to get thru it. The RX's from docs & doing nasal rinses have supported recovery but none actually stopped the phlegm / mucous production. Time has seemed to be my best friend. I am gradually improving. Dr Google has been beneficial in helping me understand the symptoms I've had.

I continue to have phlegm. I am taking allergy shots which helped for a few months but don’t seem to have stopped the problem. I saw a pulmonologist who prescribed albuterol as a rescue inhaler. That was just this week so i will see if that helps. I have a follow up with him in six weeks. I will go back to taking Claritin and Mucinex also

Singulair (montelukast) has helped tremendously.

I tried Singulair last year and had to stop taking it due to side effects.

What type of side effects did you experience if you don’t mind me asking?