Everyone looks at me like I am nuts when I bring up the throat thing.

@windwalker It sure is a mystery to me, Terri. I only cough when there is too much mucus and the throat gets irritated. I could be coughing nonstop for a long time at one time and no cough at all for hours or even most of a day at another time. I've had this problem for years, in the neighborhood of 20 I'd say. I do also get more and thicker mucus when I eat sweets sometimes. But there is no consistent pattern to tell me which factors are definitely causes for the mucus. So I just decided that it must have been a combination of multiple things. For the past few days, I rarely coughed and haven't had too much mucus. Go figure. I know at some point, it will be showing its ugly head again. It always does. I'm too used to it to be too upset about it.

Ha, ha... @jkiemen Nobody I know can relate to my situation either. Sometimes I would all of a sudden notice that nobody around me in the office is doing this throat clearing thing and wonder what they think of hearing my noise every few minutes.

@jkiemen what about your liver?  Me too throat mucus.  I have tried many things the NAET has reduced it a lot but every time I was eating or drinking  wine,  oily, fatty, sugary food I had some mucus. I would take Milk thistle that the Doctor prescribe me .

 It is a brown liquid check (hübner milk thistle on web) that really helped.  When they found out that I was aspiring liquid, then I had to thicken my liquid with Simply Thick now we’re talking it took care of the mucus.  I had my galbladder taken out also.

Food has a lot to do with it! Keep looking you will find your solution do not give up!  We can live a normal life!

@windwalker I agree with you Terri

Thank you so much. I will definitely check that one out!

@ling123 Lol. I NEVER noticed I did it until about 10 years ago in a class I was taking, the professor brought it to my attention and suggested I go to an ENT. The Dr said I had acid reflux. I wish they had known then that it could cause nodules and lead to MAI. My husband used to complain I coughed at night. Since using my Aerobika I don’t THINK I do the throat clearing as much or cough at night (I also sleep with a wedge).

@ginak I never thought about the possibility of having acid reflux until I found this site. My pulmonology doctor said if I had acid reflux, it would be a silent one because I don't have any typical symptoms. I had it checked out and I don't have it. My poor husband has had to live with this for 20 some years. He had asked me if I had tried any stronger cough suppressant other than cough drops. But he stopped asking after I was diagnosed with bronchiectasis and MAC and was told by my pulmonary doctor that suppressing coughs that can help bring up the mucus from lungs would be conducive to creating hot bed for MAC bacteria. So now both us have learned to live with this. I figure there are much worse things that humans have to endure.

Sorry to interrupt, but do u mean the bottle itself is a red cover. Have seen this on ridge rest . Looking for blue cover then. What is the difference?????

I just ordered it myself. Ordered the red bottle extra strength . What type did u order???