I’m not sure what the negative long terms effects of topical nasal decongestants are. All I know is that when I was at the ENT specialist having my hearing checked, the fellow with all the letters after his name asked if I used them for my allergy symptoms, adding in a low tone, “and we all know that using decongestants for any length of time is a bad idea.” So I’ve been curious ever since, but not so much that I’d entered the question into the top right of my browser to come up with an answer.
All I know is that I’ve been using hooter juice to clear my passages for the last few weeks, fearing that my puny sinuses would be inundated and overwhelmed by the transatlantic flights coupled with a diet of wheat and quite possibly chaff.
So my nose isn’t blocked. And neither is my brain neither. It’s hardly as clean as a whistle, but it’s certainly stepped sideways from the cycle. For some reason, after spending too long in the continental USA, before I left, I had a phrase that kept orbiting my consciousness – alabaster retard. I haven’t thought of the moon much in the last few weeks.