Anna
Funny, "rendezvousing," but also true for me :"mucus rendezvousing in my throat". For me I have been told no post nasal drip, no sinus problem, so I somewhat believe, I may be wrong, some of my mucus problem may be caused by my supposed small hiatal hernia noted while tested at NJH. For me it is an all day long thing not just at night. In my readings I read a hiatal hernia can cause overproduction of mucus...and it sure isn't fun and so time consuming having to clear it out. It is worse after eating or drinking water.

There are a few of us here on the site that have stated having the problem of sleeping with our mouth open. I have gone back to taping my mouth closed by using micropore tape placed in the center of my mouth/lips and from the top of my lips to the bottom of my bottom lip. I think I still have problems with sleeping with my mouth open and therefore breathing through the mouth more so than the nose with its filtering system. This breathing through the mouth at night, I believe, is drying the mucus/sputum and makes it very sticky and hard to get up and out. I don't have the same sticky difficult substance problem so much during the day but just at night, daytime it is loose. I, for me, chew a small piece of stick gum for a minute or two and it loosens the sputum/mucus and somewhat helps to subside the constant need to clear the throat. Gum from a dental point of view isn't the best thing but so far all O.K.
Overall to date no real answers for me with this constant need to clear my throat of the sputum/mucus, (whatever it truly is and where it is coming from) problem.
Barbara