I have suffered for years with sinus infections, have had 2 operations etc.... To help keep the infections at bay I take an low dose antibiotic 3 days a week, use a nose spray daily and up until recently using Sterimar. Saw Consultant last week and she advised me to ditch the Sterimar and replace it with Neilmed. (I have used Neilmed in the past and hated it but needs must). So I have been using it as prescribed by consultant twice a day, within about 2/3 days of doing nasal washout I got a horrible smell in my nose, Thought oh great, am brewing an infection. Went away for the weekend camping and didn't take Neilmed with me and by the time I returned on Monday, the smell had pretty much gone! Gone back to using Neilmed since and lo and behold smell is even worse than ever and have such a heavy feeling in between my eyes.
Has anyone else had this experience, obviously I know that you are rinsing out sinuses etc but have never experienced this smell before. There has been no discharge so far thankfully!
I really dislike the Neilmed, I do wonder if I am doing it right even though I have read the instructions but for over an hour after doing the rinse out my nose just leaks salty water either pouring out of my nose or if I sit back in an armchair it goes down the back of my throat (and that is without tipping my head back).
Any tips or pearls of wisdom??