Sue- This helped me to hear this because of what I go through each day.
" Not shouting here, just emphasizing) I DO NOT TRY TO GET EVERY DROP OF MUCUS UP THROUGH AIRWAY CLEARANCE BECAUSE I WOULD NEVER BE DONE. "

For some reason with all your posts I didn't picture, think, it is this way for you, " I expel mucus throughout the day".
Knowing that you do " huff coughs and spitting or swallowing just like I have done for most of my life" helps me in my understanding.
My mucus is so thick and as such I have a hard time swallowing it when I have tried to swallow it. What I find myself having to do is bring it up by way of sucking it up and out or huff coughing throughout the day. I believe you take Mucinex and NAC. I wonder if the reason you started taking it was to thin it out so you could swallow it.
I am so frustrated with it being, what I would call, stuck in my throat the majority of time..... meaning all hours of the day and at night when I wake up to do what my bladder tells me it needs to do. I do end up getting it up and out only for more to immediately form in the throat again causing me to clear it out nearly all day long.
With all you have read in the posts through the last six or seven years do you think this is common, than not, for us with BE??? Throat clearing because of what one feels in the throat???
Thank you Sue for sharing.
Barbara