How's The Nasal Irrigation? Tasty!

Yeah, my fear about shooting water up my nose -- that it'll go down my throat and I'll drink it -- has now happened twice in as many nights, even though I am following the instructions to a T.  Not only have I tasted the salty solution (as well as the snot the solution has cleared off my nasal passages), but I think it somehow came up through my ear canals.  I'm serious!  I felt it!

I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.  It's just that, try as I might, I can't close my upper esophageal sphincter in time or strongly enough to prevent me from drinking this crap.  And so I have drank it.  And it's nasty.

(sigh)