So, on Christmas morning I woke up with a killer sore throat, which seemed to come and go quite a lot over the next month or so. And then finally it was gone. But what lingered was this rather icky nose and sinus infection, which also got worse and better, then worse again, etc. Finally after almost four months of this I decided it was maybe time to mention it to my doctor?
In this case I decided to just ask my friend/neighbour/student/GP Agustín yesterday while we were having English class at his place. And so now I am squirting this stuff up my nose a couple of times a day and hoping it will work, otherwise the next step will apparently be some sort of steroid spray. Ick.
For those who previously suggested rinsing out my sinuses with salt water, yeah yeah, I know. But I always seemed to either forget or just couldn’t be bothered mixing it up and snorting it (which I’ve done before and really hated). Agustín told me that this Rhinomer stuff is pressurised so it is much more effective than snorting… and wow, he was right about that. This stuff shoots straight up my nasal passages to my eyeballs and then swooshes its way back down and around all the behind-my-face cavities again before finally trickling out through various orifice openings. I’m impressed! I also wish I did this about three months ago.
And I hope you weren’t eating while you read this…
casa azahar 
Lovely. Why can’t these wonderfully creative pharmaceutical companies come up with a more relaxing and therapeutic name for their products? Nasal ingestion, for example, sounds more inviting than snorting.
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Well, it was actually me that called it snorting. Meanwhile nasal ingestion sounds rather like what is happening to me…
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I want a squirter like that. Tidier and more convenient than the douche bag. Snorting is for amateurs.
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It really is the shizz.
Douche bag?
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I don’t mess around.
Quart of water, tablespoon of baking soda, jackknife over the bathtub and it’s up your nose with a rubber hose.
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😯
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Good lord, it sounds excruciating. Hope it works though, and soon!
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The infection is more bothersome than painful, and the nasal spray doesn’t actually hurt, it just feels weird. Like when you get a gulp of the sea and it also goes up your nose. But I’d love it TO BE GONE.
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I did the salt water snorting ( as advised by my doctor ) 20+ years ago and it did eventually “work” after many months but, unfortunately, I never regained my sense of smell! I guess there were not the same alternatives available then … your spray sounds much more effective at reaching all the necessary areas. Hopefully it’ll prove to be equally as effective at sorting out your problem … quickly!!
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OMG! It never occurred to me that I might lose my sense of smell! So far it’s just as keen as ever, even though I can also smell the infection at times (now THAT’S gross).
I actually had something like this once before, only worse, when I was living in Bristol. By worse I mean that the sides of my nostrils ended up cracked open and bleeding, and all sorts of nastiness was always coming out of my nose. The steroid creme I was given back then (1991) didn’t help at all. Then I moved to Spain and it went away. I assumed I had just become allergic to Bristol, though it may have had more to do with the damp climate. And here it was a very rainy winter. So maybe now that the weather has warmed up (30º today) and I’m shlooshing out my sinuses, it will finally clear up with no lasting effects.
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Yes, I could smell the infection, too, at times and yes, it was most unpleasant and also the last thing I remember being able to actually smell. I can still smell in my dreams, however … the memory obviously lives on!
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yeuch
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special.
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You know, I have heard recently of so many people doing something like this! My brother did this with a nasty cold he had, only he did it with some device that looked like a tea pot. Then I saw said tea pot thingy featured in Canadian Living…So, you are onto something here, Az. And if it works, then it works, right?
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Some friends filled us in on “the teapot” when we were over for dinner. I can’t say that it something I would run right out and do. I know that people can get addicted to nasal spraying. Not the spray, itself, but spraying to clear their nasal passages.
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