My Neti Pot Experience

So - I guess Oprah made this big "to do" thing w/ a Neti Pot (sinus rinse). The health store shelves were CLEANED OUT of their neti pots. Here's a familiar picture
(now I don't watch Oprah, I stopped watching it 10 years ago when she said she was going to stop making it - I quit, she didn't - liah!) SOOO - since then, she's out to make the world a better person one nose passage at a time.

First off...Oprah may claim to have done this - but really - I don't think thats something within the "realm" of Oprah. She seems to be the kind of person who says it's great, but doesn't have the guts to try something like that. I'd see her as more of the type of person to go to the doctor and have all the pours and mucous passages in her sinus cavities soldered shut. She probably did this right after she had her taste buds acid washed off.

So does she REALLY know about the experience of the nostril cleansing? I doubt it.

While I'm pregnant and puky - and miserable and tired, I've also managed to get some kind of head cold or allergy bug - or something - that prevents me from properly breathing. Or really breathing at all. Since I'm desperate - I mean to say - when I puke, I need all the orifices I can use - so if I can't get food forced out of my nose cause of all the snot there, I need to clean out my nose.

So I got me a neti pot. After consulting the empty shelves of 4 health food stores - I found one at Walgreens. Well, Ross did, I mostly directed him to not come home until he brings me a neti pot. "What's that?" "It's a porcelain Aladdin's lamp" "Will it keep you from puking?" "No, it'll keep me from ripping your face off your head...just get it!"

So he brought me one. I fixed it up just right - put the salt stuff in it - shoved it up one end of my face & flushed my sinus cavity.

HOOOOOOOO mama! I was in the ocean, except it wasn't cold, it was warm ocean water (like freshly peed in) and I was breathing it - and it was going through my brain and my mouth - and my other nostril - and I wanted to cry - in fact, it's possible I got some snot & saline out of my tear ducts? I was drowning. "It's a warm, cozy sensation" someone on Oprah said. Yah - obviously someone on METH!

So - I had to finish off the experience by drowning my other nostril - flushing that w/ the second half of my saline rinse - and HOOOO MAMA! Again - with the drowning in the ocean. But alas, it was over, I hacked up the salt from my throat - my nose had the worst case of post nasal drip known to man - and I blew it - I just grabbed a tissue and BLEW baby...and it's been dripping out of my right nostril for the last 4 hours - my left nostril is still plugged...

Although - I did just locate another video that suggests post-neti-pot exercises

Do you see how she does a farmer blow? No tissue - just forcefully exhale that salt water all over your shirt? Yep...same thing again - once your doing your exercises to get the rest of the ocean out of your head?

Did you have a sinus headache before you did this? Well, you do now!