@asteingegerdm, and all...I've become a serious saline rinse encourager...In addition to helping my sinuses and head to feel better, I breath better and have far fewer infections of whatever kind, bacterial or viral. Not the case prior to the nasal rinse use. In fact, before using the nasal rinse, I often had earaches and my right ear felt stopped up all the time, causing impaired hearing. No doctor ever found anything causing this issues in my ear...no liquid or wax or infection-nothing. It was extremely frustrating for several years.
Now, no ear issues, unless I don't use the nasal rinse enough. I'm learning to use it several days weekly, and every day at times. I imagine it will soon become a normal part of my evening schedule, if not both am/pm.
At age 35 I developed asthma, for the first time. And, hayfever, allergies. Docs say this isn't unusual, to develop these things later. Yuck. But, I'm getting all these issues under bette control these days. Fingers crossed.
Be well, be safe and be blessed. Elizabeth

@astaingegerdm Hello Inge,

I had never heard of hypertonic saline before I read your post. Regular saline rinses did little (to nothing) to help with my nasal congestion. So I ordered some hypertonic saline from Amazon and it really made a difference. I'm probably going to stop the prescription strength nose spray and just use this.

I so appreciate this suggestion!!