Mucus Clearing

No, things seem to settle for me a few minutes after clearance. What does your doctor say about a short term trial of a PPI to see if it helps your throat mucus problem? I've noticed you've posted about this issue several times. Hoping you get some relief.

Scoop- Yes, you are right, I keep asking because it is so frustrating.
I am giving thought to going back up to NJH to see about it. The original findings at NJH after the testing for Acid Reflux came back....not found, none.
They did indicate I have a small hiatal hernia and one of the gastroenterologists there, via a video I watched months after my visit there, talked about it possibly causing a problem with needing to clear the throat often. My lead pulmonologist and gastroenterologist I saw there at NJH did not speak of what the hiatal hernia could cause. They just told me what they found, a small hiatal hernia.
'Push is coming to shove' for me and I need to do better about getting a possible definitive answer.
From what I heard and read, one being a video by Dr. Gwen Hewitt a retired Infectious Disease doctor at NJH who lived with Acid Reflux, the PPI's should be given for, taken for, a temporary period to help healing of lesions etc. and then stop taking it because the PPI's can, in the long run, make Acid Reflux worse. Another hard call about taking them or not.
Barbara

Thanks for explaining things, Barbara. I can only imagine how frustrated you are and annoying this must be. I hear what you’re saying about PPI’s. They are meant for short term treatment, and often they turn into long-term treatment. That said if it were I, with my doctors supervision, I would try a two week course of a PPI since you’re at your wits end.

Just thinking...have you tried saline sinus flushes just a couple times to see if it helps? I don't like them, but they do seem to clear up my throat mucus for a few hours, though mine is mostly sinus drainage.

I feel the exact same way, like it’s never complete.

Newly diagnosed Bronchieactasis and Sjogrens My treatment 3 times per day is 2 ventolin puffs then Aerobika device huff breathing and Autogenic draining breathing I don’t cough up anything. Approx 3 hours later I start coughing and either I swallow or the mucous just gets stuck in the airways or throat. I was thinking it’s because I was also diagnosed with Sjogrens and there is a lack of saliva to transport and expel spit out the mucous. I live in canada and in general we cannot get a treatment plan that includes hypertonic saline and can’t buy it.

I have severe Gerd and LPR an am taking two Nexium and 3 Famatidine. The condition leaves me drowning in clear frothy liquid.

You might be able to purchase saline on Amazon. Honestly, I could not manage my bronchiectasis without hypertonic saline. I am not sure why saline is not recommended in Canada. In bronchiectasis our secretions are dehydrated, which is why they are thick and sticky. Saline helps re-hydrate secretions so that it can be coughed up and out.

They only sell it on Amazon USA and the message comes up doesn’t ship to Canada.

In general the hypertonic saline if at all is only used in the hospital for inpatients.

Similarity there are no respiratory physiotherapists you can see as an out patient from the hospital.

No respirology nurses to ask questions of.

FYI- I am in Canada. In Ontario. I saw a respiratory therapist and I get hypertonic saline at a local pharmacy.

My family doctor referred me to a pulmonologist, and I got referred to the respiratory therapist through him. As for 7% hypertonic saline, I was ordering it online from Amazon.ca, but they quit selling the brand I like, so I asked the pharmacist in a small independent pharmacy to order it. She seems to have no problem accessing it from a supplier in Quebec, and bringing it in for me. I never gave her a prescription.
Perhaps some of these avenues could work for you.