Why have I had phlegm for months?

[Bill346fhk]

Around the end of November last year I had a cold. Part of this was that I would always have phlegm in my throat. The cold passed but the phlegm stayed but I wasn't too worried because I thought it would disappear soon enough. It is now April of next year and still every morning I wake up with a load of mucus in my throat.

I spend several minutes in the bathroom each morning trying to cough it up and eventually expel a few wads of green slime but I feel like it hasn't helped much. And throughout the day I will periodically try and get rid of some of it. All day and night I can feel the phlegm in my throat and no matter how much I try and cough up it never helps.

I've never had this before. I don't have allergies, I don't have a cough I just do it on purpose to try and clear my throat. I don't have a cold anymore and my nose is totally clear. I have acid reflux but now matter what I eat and how careful I am it never gets any better or worse. At this point it's getting really aggravating and I'm getting worried. It also hinders my personal life as it gives me bad breath all the time that I can't get rid of for long.
Any help or suggestions as to what this might be and how I can get rid of it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Paxiled]

Some possibilities, though obviously I can't know from here -- it's anxiety is one possibility, where you feel something is there but nothing actually is.  It can be a really minor anxiety problem, but it's still an anxious reaction because you just expect that thing that was there to still be there even though it isn't.  Now, this assumes, based on nothing much coming out, that there isn't anything there, it just feels like there is.  The brain is a weird thing sometimes.  I used to have something like this when I was a kid where I spent a while constantly clearing my throat.  I do have allergies, but I didn't have to do that.  At some point, as mysteriously as I started feeling the need to do it I lost the need to do it.  I get it now again from time to time, but again, I do have allergies.  It doesn't take much excess mucous to feel like something is there when it's in the throat, it's an automatic response I think because of where it feels clogged.  A second possibility is that you actually do have allergies.  A third is that you didn't have a cold but something more than that and it never completely went away.  Seeing a doctor might help eliminate the possibility it really is something, and if that happens, you're left with having developed a habit that only working on your mind can make go away.  

[Bill346fhk]

I have never spent any time clearing my throat before and I still don't do it a lot or do it compulsively. I do it in the morning because the mucus builds up in my sleep. And then one or two more times a day. And stuff does come out. And it's wads of green phlegm. Isn't the first possibility ruled out because of that? I'm not mistaken green phlegm mean I have some kind of bacterial infection or immune response. I also thought maybe I developed allergies or I have something that never went away. I can try taking antihistamines and see if that helps?