question: Hi I am a 27 year old female and all of a sudden I wake up and have very bad mucus. I then began to try and get it up and its a very green thick mucus. It hurts to swallow now and I am constantly feeling the mucus in my throat . Its been 3 days now and still same thing. Really worse at night. My left ear hurts when I swallow now and I don t have health insurance. What could this be?