Update
Thus far I will give 4 stars for the timely and professional fashion my package was delivered, and will update another star depending on how things go. After doing extensive research on  L. Sakei , reading it's benefits for the sinuses/overall health, I've finally decided to give it a go, and have begun my first round of treatment today. I have been an allergy/ moderate asthma sufferer most of my life, but have never really had major sinus problems, although for some reason (starting around December 2019) I've been having the WORST problems with periodic sinus infection & CONSTANT congestion! My problem seems to be, no matter what I do, I can usually only breath through one nostril, and (sorry to be graphic) but I always seem to wake up with a crusty nasty layer of booger on the bottom insides of my nose, usually light yellow, sometimes dark in color, I have been on antibiotics a couple times to no avail, but I figure something has to be wrong in there. I literally haven't been able to freely breath out of my nose for an entire year now! You can imagine the mental effects this has! I am currently in the depths of tortuous nasal rebound congestion from the overuse of Afrin, and will be stopping cold turkey for my experiment with L. Sakei, the only things I will be taking is Sudaphed 12 hr, and Nasacort (both of which DO NOT cause rebound nasal congestion) and I'm only using them because I need some kind of relief, and to jump start the healing process with Nasacort (a steroid).  I prepared my L. Sakei today with just a little bottled water in a glass (a 2 second pour) and put two scoops in with the tiny red spoon that comes with the package. I proceeded to swish the water around in my mouth, proceed to dab a q tip into my nostrils a couple times, then swish the remainder of the drink again and swallow. This will be the last thing I try before going to a ear/nose/throat specialist, & will probably result in needing some kind of surgery, hoping for the best! Will give an update here in around 5 days.<br /><br />Update: After 4 days I have discontinued usage, days 1- 3 seemed to be going well, I could actually feel the little bacteria doing something good, I carefully followed my routine each evening and was very committed & hopeful after reading all of these positive reviews. I planned to take a little break after day 5 as others have recommended online, but day 4  was a different story, after doing my regular dosage in the evening I started to feel a bit weird as the night went on, it sort of felt like the onset of a panic attack (for those who know that bad feeling) but I knew it was something different. I proceeded to take a nap and woke up around 9pm to play some PS4, and around 2-3 hrs into my video game (midnight), I was having trouble focusing on my game & noticed that panic feeling was back, but this time I had a weird sort of itchy pressure behind my eyes. I went to the bathroom to look in the mirror, and to my shock..the bottom halves of my eyes were completely blood shot & red as can be, the only feeling I can compare it to was when I would get pink eye as a kid, and this was affirmed when I woke up the next morning and I had that gross gooey discharge around my eyes. I felt extremely weak and drained, but pushed myself to go to Walgreens to pick up some Emergen-C packets, and some Pink Eye relief eye drops, which thankfully provided some almost immediate relief & made the redness nearly go away. The rest of the night was not so pleasant, luckily I had some time off from work, so I decided to stay in and rest for as long as possible, around 9 pm I noticed that feeling again, my body still felt weak & drained, and noticed I was kind of sweaty & hot, to my surprise I took my temperature and noticed I was near 100 degree fever, so I immediately took 2 Ibuprofen and a Xanax to try and calm myself down to some degree normalcy. At this point I was freaking out & starting to question whether or not I possibly was infected with Covid, luckily at this point my medicine was starting to relax me, and I told myself that if I didn't feel any better in the morning, I was going to call my doctor to set up a check up & inquire a Covid19 test. I woke up the next morning after a good 9-10 hour slumber feeling a lot better, my temperature was back to 97.1 and the eye pressure was gone (although still a bit itchy)  I felt a lot more energized, and feel even better today. Sadly, I have no health insurance so every time I go to my doctor it cost an arm & a leg, I'm not sure what happened..perhaps this was just my body's way of pushing out any kind of infection I had going on in my sinuses? My stomach also has been kind of out of wack during this time, almost like it's telling my body "hey, everything was fine down here until you started using this bacteria". Anyway, not sure what happened, I'm glad this works well for so many people and hate to give bad reviews, but I've decided to discontinue the L. Sakei, it's just not for me.
Rating: 2 stars