Natural Rems

8 Months of Flonase. Still Clearing My Throat.

I used Flonase every morning for eight months. Two sprays in each side. Every day. Just like the box said. I was still clearing my throat 30 times before lunch. It starts before I get out of bed. A thick glob stuck at the back of my throat. I can feel it before I open my eyes. Then ten minutes at the bathroom sink. Coughing. Spitting. Running the water so my husband won't hear me. By breakfast I sound like I've had a cold for a year. People on the phone ask if I'm sick. I quit calling my sister, because half of every call was me saying "sorry, hold on." My doctor said it was drip from allergies. She gave me a sample of Flonase and said, "Give it two weeks." I gave it two weeks. "Give it a month. It takes time to build up." I gave it a month. "Try it twice a day." I did that too. $28 a bottle. Eight bottles. Two copays. Over $250 on a spray that was supposed to fix this. And every morning, the same glob. The same sink. Then something didn't add up. I finally asked for an allergy test. It came back clean. No pollen. No dust. No cat. So what was I spraying for? My neighbor Carol had the answer. Her husband went through the same thing for two years. She sat at my kitchen table with a cup of coffee and said it plain. "You're spraying your nose. The problem is in your throat." I didn't get it at first. She said Flonase has one job. It calms swelling inside your nose from allergies. It's fine for that. "But that glob isn't in your nose," she said. "It already slid down. It's sitting at the back of your throat. The spray never gets there." Then she told me the thing that stuck with me. Every time I clear my throat, it rubs the back of my throat raw. A raw throat makes more mucus to protect itself. More mucus means more clearing. "It just goes around and around," she said. "You've been stuck in that for eight months." So I did everything my doctor said. I just did it in the wrong place. I was spraying my nose. The problem was in my throat. That wasn't my fault. If you're doing the same thing, it isn't yours either. You weren't doing it wrong. You were aiming at the wrong spot. "So what did your husband do?" I asked. She said they stopped trying to dry it up. They tried to keep it loose so it could move, and calm his throat down so the coughing would slow. Warm tea. A humidifier by the bed. A spoon of honey at night. And sea moss. I laughed. I'd seen sea moss all over the internet and figured it was a fad. Carol didn't argue with me. She just asked me one question. "When's the last time you heard Frank out by the mailbox?" I had to think about it. For two years, that man coughed every single morning while he got the paper. I could hear him from my kitchen. And I realized I hadn't heard it since spring. "That's the sea moss," she said. She told me it's been around forever. It turns slippery, kind of like honey going down your throat. People in Ireland and the Caribbean used it for coughs long before anybody sold it online. Frank tried a jar of the gel first. He said it smelled like a fish market and he couldn't choke it down. What he stuck with was a gummy called Natural Rems. Green apple. One a day. Honey and ginger mixed in. The next morning there was a jar on my porch with a sticky note. "Try mine for a week. If you hate it, bring it back." I never brought it back. It wasn't overnight. The first few days I couldn't tell a thing. So I started counting again, the way I used to count the throat clearing before lunch. 30. Then 22. Then 11. About a month in, my husband asked me something over breakfast. "Why don't you run the water in the bathroom anymore?" I didn't have an answer. I just hadn't needed to. Last Sunday I called my sister and let her talk as long as she wanted. I didn't say "sorry, hold on" once. I still clear my throat some mornings. Everybody does. But it's a couple of times, not thirty. I didn't stop anything my doctor gave me. I just added something for the part the spray never reached. I was spraying my nose. The problem was in my throat. If that sounds like you, here's the page Frank ordered from. They have a 90-day money-back guarantee, and right now it's Buy 2, Get 1 Free. 👇