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Wellness Wednesday for October 30, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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I have sinus issues and do jal neti regularly, has helped me a ton. Get a neti pot, add lukewarm water, salt and do irrigation. When you do it, do not suck in or blow out water as that will cause it to get in your ears. Doing it regularly helps a lot. I was skeptical of it till I tried it. You can take an anti congestion spray and then do neti 10 minutes later if you have clogged nose.

For context, I am extremely suspectible to throat infections and have had to use anti bioticis very very frequently for it. Jal Neti is the safest thing I do daily to help me stay better.