u/Embracedandbelong

I only get blackheads, no other type of acne. There are a few on my chin and forehead, but mainly on my nose. Tons on my nose and very, very deep. When I extract them, they come back fairly quickly. Cleansing my face more often (or less) doesn’t help, exfoliating products haven’t helped, toners haven’t helped. Only regular extractions make them go away, but like I said they come back very quickly. And they are quite painful because they are so deep. My skin is not super oily or anything either.

I bought some Diferin but I’m scared to try it for just the blackheads on my nose. Should I ask for tret instead?

On Care dot com, they can do this and it’s messed up. People can leave reviews about you who never even talked to you, let alone hired you.

I try to shop local but it’s not always possible

Season 3 Spoiler:

Surely he knew Rio would come after Beth? Did Turner think he was going to hide Rio away somewhere? Was he supposedly locking Rio away in that hotel room?

I know the plot kind of goes off the rails during S3, but I’m curious what I’m missing

My ex and I agreed we needed someone to help us. My ex finds a therapist in our insurance plan. The guy calls us for a phone appointment. My ex starts to complain about me. The therapist says “[my name], you shouldn’t be doing that.” I say, “Well, I’m actually *not* doing that.” Therapist says to my ex “They say they aren’t doing that. Why are you lying?” My ex says they aren’t lying. Therapist says “[my name], they say they are telling the truth. So why are you doing this to them?”

We go to another therapist. This time in a person. We were actually having a good day prior to this appointment. My ex was laughing and joking with me. We walk into the office and suddenly my ex acts all sullen and is refusing to speak. I’m confused as hell. The therapist asks me what I “did” to make them feel this way. I try to explain my ex was happy all day until the second we walked in the door to the office. Therapist seems skeptical. She tries for the whole appointment to get my ex to “open up.” It was so bizarre.

These are the people we pay thousands of dollars to?

And WOULDN’T YOU KNOW? My doctor suddenly, easily, agreed to do the sleep study and other specialist referrals he previously REFUSED to do at my last 3 appointments. Last time, he was combative, cutting me off, talking over me. THIS TIME he gave me everything I needed and then some, all within the 7 minute phone call.

Ladies, congratulations. If you were single before reading this, you are now married, and your husband will be listening during the your next phone or Zoom medical appointment.

Another update: the pharmacy just called and informed me that this doctor took the initiative to refill another medication that I had forgotten to even ask him about. Ha!

Rhetorical question, really. This was years ago.

This was not a D and C after miscarriage.

I had an early miscarriage and an ER nurse (doctor?) insisted he do an “exam.” They put me in a triage area with a curtain, so it might have been a nurse. I told him I was bleeding. He said he had to do to the exam anyway and he seemed annoyed as if I was trying to get out of it by telling him that or something. He does the exam and says “EW” under his breath at the end, and his face looked grossed out.

REGARDLESS of his dehumanizing disrespect, if you can even disregard it (believe me, I’m still outraged years later and always will be), what was the medical point of this exam? Yep, you’re bleeding? I already knew that. This was not a D and C procedure. Just an “exam” after I went to the ER miscarrying, and I only went to the ER because that’s what I thought I was supposed to do- and it’s what everyone around me was urging me to do. I really don’t think there was a medical reason for his “exam.” I was heavily bleeding but they didn’t offer any help for it. They just sent me home.

I thought maybe it was in my head for a while since I didn’t experience this in a city, but after my coworker lending me her new car for a few weeks, I see it’s not. Got my very old- not old enough to be “vintage” but too old to be considered a “smart choice” by middle class people who have 10 year old cars- car back, entered the highway, and immediately someone in a newer car sped up to tailgate me even though I was going on the faster side. I couldn’t move any more forward since there were cars in front of me. This person could have easily switched lanes to speed ahead of me/the cars in front of me. Instead they chose to tail gate me, super close to my number. So I go to change lanes because this person’s tailgating at high speeds was very dangerous. Right as I move into the lane to the right, this person follows me to stay right on my bumper. I lanes again and they do the same thing. Then I try one last time and they follow me and then speed off, nearly hitting the side of my car.

I had forgotten that people like to try and run me down when I’m driving an older car. My car is clean, not falling apart, not loud, doesn’t leak anything, etc. It’s just old. It was not just a “one off” jerk. People have called police on me for parking on the street in my own neighborhood. They lie and say it’s been abandoned even though I leave for work every morning and come back every evening and park in different, public spots.

Obviously I’m grateful to have a reliable car in good condition despite its age. But I had forgotten or maybe just got used to people harassing me for daring to drive a very old car.