Continued Post-Nasal Drip and Constant Mucus in Throat

Posted by adominic @adominic, Mar 22, 2022

I was sick the last week or January/first week of February. Home Test-negative, rapid PCR-negative. All COVID symptoms and known prolonged exposure to infected individuals make me believe it was COVID. Since then, I have had a tremendously hard time dealing with post-nasal drip and mucus collecting in my throat. It is clear, sticky and almost impossible to remove from throat by coughing or clearing my throat. Flonase does nothing, allergy pills do nothing. Had anyone else had an issue like this post COVID? How long did it last? What did you do to cope? Small problem in comparison to others that post here, I realize.

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ld1 | @ld1 | Sep 17 9:52am

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I have had the exact same symptoms since I had Covid for the first time at the beginning of June.

jjecker1 | @jjecker1 | Sep 17 9:57am

I have had sinus allergies all my life, (80 yrs) so constant drainage is common for me. However, during and for several weeks after my 2 Covid bouts, I had more free flowing back throat drainage that finally did clear up, back to the point of normalcy for me. During my first bout, Sept 2023, I had severe and painful coughing that left me with a hernia reaching from my breast bone down to my navel. Dr. doesn't seem concerned about it unless it starts causing me any trouble, which it has not up to this point. I also have permanent double vision resulting from the first Covid. My vision is good straight forward, but moving my eyes any more than about 10 degrees to either side, I see double. The eye Dr. cannot fix it, but I have learned to compensate. My second bout, which I am just getting over, was much lighter, mostly slight coughing, extreme loss of energy and burning sinus headache. Only lasted about 5 days. Just low on energy now. I have also developed chronic dry eye but I can't tie it to Covid. I had Cataract surgery last year, but dry eye started before that. I try to stay away from actual medications in treating my allergy problems and have worked it down to where I use an OTC saline nasal spray for dryness, when needed. For more severe but infrequent problems I use Nasonex or equavalent only once per day, as directed, for only a couple of days, along with a saline lavage for a flush, which works well for me. Then it is usually gone for several weeks or maybe months. It took me many years but I have finally gotten my problems down to a very manageable level. Maybe I have just learned to live with it. Overall, I am pretty healthy.

agan2054 | @agan2054 | Sep 17 10:18am

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Same feeling here. Going to a doc just feels i am talking to a wall. Thankful to find this forum to see there are others who are going through the same symptoms and hopefully find a collaborative fix.

windseafire | @windseafire | Sep 17 11:42am

Like most people here I have combined doctors advice with my own experimentation and this is what works for me. I take one tablet of Zyrtek at around 7pm every day. If I start to wheeze, especially before bedtime, I use my Albuterol inhaler which loosens up the phlegm over the following 15 mins.

Hope this works for others.

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