Post nasal drip like a slug in throat

1. Name :
Ally Sauros
2. Age :
59
3. Sex
Female
4. country
UK
5. climate :
Temperate, mild winter, often overcast skies, not a lot of wind where I live. Its static and dull for most of the winter.

6. What exactly is happening ?
Mucus forms constantly at the back of my throat and I can rarely cough it up, so it just stays there, like a slug at the back of my throat. The mucus is white in colour when I do cough up. The constant drip makes me swallow too freqently, clear my throat, or try to cough up. This goes on all day. At night, I have trained myself not to swallow, so my throat dries out and I can sleep, otherwise I can't get to sleep and wake up choking on mucus.

7. How do you feel ?
Usually I have a swollen throat, either from too much coughing and swallowing, or possibly from eating wheat or dairy, which I do only rarely. Sometimes I have a mild sore throat.

8. How does this affect you ?
I get very tired when this happens, and 'stopped in my tracks', because I usually just chill out and don't do anything except read or watch TV. I become a bit zombified.

9. How does it feel like ?
I'm not quite sure if you mean physically or emotionally....These are the emotions:
I feel very depressed, sometimes irritated. even 'persecuted' or 'harrassed' by this condition. I have tried eliminating so many things from my diet, and it seems to have little effect, except that sometimes when I re-introduce whatever I've cut out, the mucus intensifies. So, I'm at my wit's end really, not knowing what I must be doing wrong to have caused the sudden onset of PND. Sometimes I feel like I'm 'drowning,' because its a never-ending, never improving condition, so it is like being nagged at, or 'hampered' by my own body I also feel aware that my constant throat-clearing is a real nuisance to my partner as well, although he is very understanding.

10. What comes to your mind ?
I'm not sure what you mean.

11. One situation that had a big effect on you ?
18 months before the onset of PND I was being badly bullied by some so-called 'spiritual' people who kept ringing up and shouting at me. They felt I represented some kind of evil force on the earth and that I should die and take it off the earth, so then they would feel better. I believed them because I thought they were speaking from God, so I listened and wanted to make things better for them. Quite soon, they made me feel so bad about myself and about living at all, that although I didn't actually want to die, I also felt I ought to, and often I even wanted to, just to escape them. So I lay under a blanket in a dark room for firve months, waiting to die. but it just didn't happen, so I stopped trying to die in July 2004, and shortly after, in August, I got a cyst on the back of my throat and the PND started. (The harassing continued for another 15 months, until I finally came to my senses and stopped believing in these people.)

12. How did that feel like ?
Very frightening. It was like being watched and constantly comdemned by Big Brother. I had to report everything I had done, I had to give up my family, my children, all worldy wealth to them, all my treasured possessions had to go, and literally everything else that I valued. I ended up financially insolvent, by their direct order. I was taught to believe that I was intrinsically 'dark', that I was constantly invisibly attacking them, and that pretty much everyone else was doing this too. Apparently they were the only good people on the earth. They thought they were Mr and Mrs. God who had to battle everyone to regain their 'right places,' and 'take back' everything everyone else had 'stolen' from them, physically, psychically, mentally, emotionally and 'energetically.'
In effect, it was a very complex Conspiracy Theory which only they really understood, and they changed whenever it suited them. Therefore, no matter what I said or did to try to 'get it right', it never was right, and I was always at fault.

13. What sensation do you experience in that situation ?
Four kinds of terror: of God, since this was all supposedly emanating from him ; of what I was 'supposed to be'- some dark relentless force; of dying and going to my 'real home' which was a hell of some kind; and of the harassing people themselves. Very occasionally I experienced overwhleming anger because I hated these people for doing what they were doing to me, my family and all our lives, but if I expressed it, either openly or even to myself, I got more wrath from them, so I learned not to question anything.

14. What are you showing by that gesture of your hand. ?
I am not sure what you mean here. If I was to make a gesture when I think about what happened, it is either to put my hands over my face in disbelief, or to ward off approach, even to make a fist, depending on whether I'm feeling appalled, vulnerable or angry.

15. current medicine you are taking
Zirtek, antihistamine. Bendrofluorizide 2.5 (High BP - started Nov 2003 after the first year of being terrorized.)
I also take a liquid mineral supplement and Noni juice, (since Nov 2005) in an attempt to re-invigorate my whole system. And Glucosamine with MSM and Chondroitin( since August 2205)This has virtually cleared up my aching shoulder and hip joints.

16. family back ground

Father, solictor, died at 48 from lung cancer when I was 8. Mother, housewife, died from breast cancer at 84. Brother 65, in antiques, still living, Brother, social worker, died at 61 from all-over cancer. Husband died, heart attack, aged 48. Three children, 30, 28, 22, all living.

17. qualification of patient
Teaching Cert.

18. Nature of working
Housewife. I am retired, and am now writing.

19. desire and aversion of food
I very much like bread, butter, fruit, potatoes, salt, chocolate. Also cheese, but not as much. I used to like coffee and tea, but don't drink them now because they might aggravate my condition, but I would if I could.
I do not like anniseed, raw fish and mussels.

20. Mind-behavior, anger, irritability, hurry, impatient…and so.. on and how you are peculiar from other person, public speaking or not , you can describe all the detail about behavior, love and affection. If any secret thing or can not want to discus at forum then you can share your talk directly to email by clicking on your any forum doctor. For a good prescription mental detail is must be and try to email of photographs of the diseases part.(if required)

I am on the whole easy-going and tolerant, a bit slow physically and mentally these days, but can flare up in anger if I'm 'unreasonably' thwarted, criticised or mocked. I lack confidence after my run-in with spirituality. I used to be very confident. I used to be more impatient than I am now, but I am still pretty critical, although not especially judgemental with it. I have done public speaking at several times in my lifeand enjoyed it at the time. I wouldn't now. I am affectionate to those I love, but I am now cautious with strangers. I used to think the best of everyone, now I don't. I am quite creative and like to write. All my life I was interested in spiritual matters and followed a Guru for 20 years before listening to the above-mentioned 'spiritual' people. Now I very much dislike religions/spiritual dogmas of all sorts because I know firsthand that they contain very powerful ideas that can very easily manipulate and abuse people's trust, destroy families and can even kill the easily-led/wishful thinkers, like I was. I was naive, I'm not any more. I am now suspicious by nature, struggling to be an optimist, with a tendency to get depressed very easily by things going wrong or by gloomy weather, which it often is where I live. My moods fluctuate quite a bit and energy levels are up and down all the time. The PND is one cause of my current depression.

21. Aggravation & Amelioration

My PND gets aggravated by too little water, by bread, by dairy,( & maybe bananas?) And possibly other things I haven't identified. The evenings are the most throat- irritating time, although in the mornings I often cough up some phlegm and that can take a few hours to settle down, but being busy in the day helps me take my mind off it.
I find drinking a lot of water helps a bit, staying off bread causes less throat swelling, staying off dairy probably assists in creating less mucus. Going outside seems to help, and talking, because then I don't notice the swalllowing. I find sucking Olbas oil pastilles, Tunes or Fisherman's Friends help temporarily, enough to get me to sleep. Antihistamines help usually, and recently I have started taking them daily, as in the past few weeks the condition has got more' insistent' than before . It leads me to believe I could be intolerant of something I haven't yet discovered. I still eat soya, potatoes, corn, tomatoes and meat/fish & vegetables. I drink water and peppermint tea/rosehip tea/hot lemon juice and fruit juices.


thank you for offering to help me Dr. Sharma, I really do appreciate it.
Yours sincerely, Ally.

Thanks Dr. Sharma for your hard work, I will certainly give Bryonia 3c a go, and I'll get back to you after one week.
Ally

I have taken Bryonia Alb 3C for a week, and have certainly found it helped quite a bit. I've still got some catarrh, but it isn't so bad at night now. Also, during this week I have also stayed off wheat, dairy and Soya totally, so I didn't know if it is that abstinence, or the pills which was improving the PND. So I drank some soya milk, and the catarrh came back. Now I'm off it again, but I would like to be abe to eat a little of these things sometimes.

Should I continue the same pills for a month? should I stay off soya, wheat and dairy at the same time? do you think I'll ever be able to eat them again?
Thank you very much for your advice. I do appreciate it.
Ally.

Dr. Sharma, I will take the Hepar sulph 200c, one pill three times a day, but for how long should I take this, or is it taken concurrently with the Glycyrrhiza Glambra Q for a week?
I am reluctant to take Glycyrrhiza Glambra Q because it is liquorice and I have high blood pressure, (for which I take Bendoflurozide 2.5mg.) I will wait to order the pills until I hear back.
Thank you for your time.

Thanks Dr. Khan as well. I'll keep trying Dr. Sharma's advice for now, but if that doesn't work, then I will certainly try yours.
Thanks,
Ally.