Mucus in throat

Did you mean cod, liver oil? That is a totally different thing than castor oil.

Bonniesue, I have been treated for GERD for about 20 years. I have other gastrointestinal conditions that agravate GERD. I follow a very strict diet (no caffeine, chocolate, mint, carbonated drinks, fast foods...) My bed is elevated and I sleep on my left side. I eat very small meals and I don't eat or drink anything 3 hours before bed. My last meal is at 5:30 pm ( too early for me, specially in summer time). I also struggle with not drinking after 6:00 pm, I am always thirsty.

jillcrawford | @jillcrawford | 1 minute ago
I do the vest with albuterol nebulizer, and follow it with aerobika with saline 3b%nebulizer. I find that when I get to the saline and aerobika , I bring up tremendous amounts of mucus.
In addition to that, I wake up with at 1/4 least half a cup of mucus in my throat, most mornings
I still have mucus even after doing about seven rounds of the aerobic 10 times each. It does get less, but is it OK to leave some?
For now, I’m just doing this once a day
my Pulmo switched me back to once from twice a day because I was getting very exhausted

Does everybody do this twice a day and how do you have any energy left to exercise. The aerobic art particularly takes an enormous amount out of me.
PS I have BE 3 lobes
If I’m clearing out my mucus, why do I get so much more when I wake up in the morning. It’s always a different color. It’s always yellow whereas the mucus I’ve bring up with the aerobic, etc., is mostly green. Thank you Jill.

Yes, have Be in lobes after almost 2 years of pneumonia, which did not get eradicated by any antibiotic, so my doctor started me on airway clearance

jillcrawford | @jillcrawford | 5 minutes ago
jillcrawford | @jillcrawford | 1 minute ago

FYI, after continuous bouts of pneumonia Ucla recommended that I have both sinus and hernia surgery. No one mentioned BrONC for a whole year and a half.
I had a large hernia that they felt was contributing bacteria to the trachea, and also chronic sinus infection infections
I did both surgeries in 2025 2024
My pneumonia came back and my be grew from one lobe to three lobes , so I’m not so sure how much surgery will accomplish
I do the vest with albuterol nebulizer, and follow it with aerobika with saline 3b%nebulizer. I find that when I get to the saline and aerobika , I bring up tremendous amounts of mucus.
In addition to that, I wake up with at 1/4 least half a cup of mucus in my throat, most mornings
I still have mucus even after doing about seven rounds of the aerobic 10 times each. It does get less, but is it OK to leave some?
For now, I’m just doing this once a day
my Pulmo switched me back to once from twice a day because I was getting very exhausted

Does everybody do this twice a day and how do you have any energy left to exercise. The aerobic art particularly takes an enormous amount out of me.
PS I have BE 3 lobes
If I’m clearing out my mucus, why do I get so much more when I wake up in the morning. It’s always a different color. It’s always yellow whereas the mucus I’ve bring up with the aerobic, etc., is mostly green. Thank you Jill.

Yes, have Be in lobes after almost 2 years of pneumonia, which did not get eradicated by any antibiotic, so my doctor started me on airway clearance
I feel like I’ve been through a lot of unnecessary surgeries when a proper diagnosis and intervention early on could have treated the BE when it was in one lobe

What has helped me is first thing in the morning I blend a half lemon and about and inch or 2 of peeled ginger root and pinch of Himalayan pink salt in about a cup of room temp water. I blend in my mixer then strain and sip on this. It seems to clear my throat of the mucus.

I also have thick mucus in my throat and usually cough up a mucus plug at some point during the day. It is so annoying and embarrassing. I also have a small hiatal hernia that my doctor has dismissed, so I was surprised the hiatal hernia was mentioned as a mucus producer. I will have a test for gerds next week. I'm not sure how or why but I also have a frozen vocal chord. I'm not sure if all these things are related or happenstance but I would really like some answers.

In case this helps someone, I gargle with salt water right before bed. This not only stops the coughing that usually starts up for a bit when I lie down but also clear the mucous in my throat.