Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
I have been using oxymetazoline for 35 years. I use it only at night before I go to bed. If I don't use it, I don't sleep, so I keep a supply on hand in case Joe Brandon decides that he knows better than I do. My ENT guy says he can see changes in the mucosa, but he's not worried about it. I have perceived no trouble from using it, and I wish I had started doing my morning saline nasal cleanout and nightly spray about 10 years earlier. I have never heard of the shit your smelly buddy uses.