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Constant feeling of needing to clear my throat

Digestive Health | Last Active: Jan 6 9:48am | Replies (23)

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@donjo

I have had throat clearing for a year and a half. Seen ENT all clear there. Gastro says all ok. Had recent Endoscopy. All ok. It just one day came on me. I do it every day and night. Only have relief for a little while in the a.m. I have tried being off certain drugs. Only thing changed about that time is I started Gabapentin and Losartan. Tried being off Gabapentin for 2 months. Nothing changed. Hear doc let me come off Losartan and maybe 10% better. Still off Losartan. Back on Gabapentin. I was having a lot of feeling of not swallowing very well. Thats why I had Endoscopy. Oh and had Swallowing Test at Hospital. At one point Gastro Doc said maybe related to Sjogrens. I also have Lupus. Every day I hope going to be better. But the same. I hardly go anywhere. It's very annoying even to my family. I am so miserable. Plan to read all comments here.

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@donjo
Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect!
I’m sorry you don’t have an answer yet to this annoying problem.
It reminds me of my husband’s problem. For quite a while he has had a similar problem. He also had an endoscopy that was all normal in addition to having normal pulmonary function tests.
His primary care doctor recently put him on asthma inhaler- combination with an inhaled corticosteroid- as a trial.
He has noticed an improvement now after a couple of weeks.
Maybe something to discuss with your doctor?

Maybe a food diary?????