I'm choking on my mucus during sleep and I don't realize it! Dan says it's coming from deep within my throat and sounds like horrible snoring/chocking. He has to shake me awake.

This scares the hell our of me, because I know how the mucous is during the day, let alone when I am not swallowing/clearing it at night.

My doctor had me on Robitussin. I stopped taking it when I got home from the hospital, but now I am going to start taking it again.

Now, I remember, while I was in the hospital, I would wake up gasping and when I told them about it, they just said to elevate the head of my bed, which I was already doing.

Anyone else with this problem/experience?

37 y/o fem at Dx (23 wks preg @ dx on 3/16/11)
SCC L oral tongue (no risk factors)
L partial gloss/MND 3/28/11 @ 25 wks preg
T1-2N0M0; no rads/chemo
Tonsillectomy on 8/6/12 +SCC L tonsil T2-3N1M0 (HPV-)
Treated with 35 rads/7 carbo & taxol (Rx ended 10/31/12), but many hospitalizations d/t complications from rx.
Various scans since rx ended are NED!
Part of genetic study for rare cancers @ MGH.
44 years old now...I wasn't sure I would make it! Hoping for 40 more!