Image 1 — The minoxidil purge is terrifying
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The minoxidil purge is terrifying

I'm losing crazy amounts of hair from my fringe area. I was on the spray for a month and had no purging, I switched to the capsules and within 5 days I'm losing hair in frightening numbers.

Is this normal? Do I resort back to spray?
I have cats which is why I wanted to move away from the spray, my ginger girl sleeps next to my face and I'm scared the spray harms her.

I have such thin hair as it is, losing any more would make me go into a flat panic

u/JadedBinXx — 1 day ago
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Funeral parlour reluctant to do an autopsy because we said we don't know if the cause of death might have been due to a hospital procedure.

My brother (43)m, passed away on Tuesday 16 June. He was a quadriplegic with right frontal lobe damage from a car accident he had 12 years ago.
We have cared for him at home for 12 years, he had a caregiver from 8am to 6pm and family around assisting all the time.

Every 3-4 months he goes into theatre for his urologist to flush and replace his suprapubic catheter, this is a one day procedure, often we would ask that they keep him overnight anyway to observe him and mostly because my brother loved the small change of environment for a short while, however, his urologist is a cranky old man that gets annoyed by him and insists he does not stay overnight any longer, so in recent visits they would send him home immediately after this procedure.

Last week Friday he went in for this procedure, and to remove large kidney stones that could not be removed in the previous visit, the doctors advised us that when they remove these stones he will need to stay overnight, his urologist insisted he go home. Despite knowing he needed to be observed.

He took 2,5hrs longer to come out of anesthesia this time, which never happened before, anyway he was brought back home. On Saturday he was complaining of pain and being hot, he was also sweating profusely, and passing urine into his nappy.
He's experienced side effects like this before so the caregiver monitored as best she could, gave him painkiller and they checked his temperature, he had no fever.
This continued Sunday and Monday, he also hasn't passed stool on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Tuesday evening our younger sister went into his room to feed him and found he had passed away.

This was sudden, it is a shock, we are in shock.
We want to know what went wrong.

We have requested for the funeral parlour to do a post mortem and the doctor contracted to their parlour is refusing because on the forms we stated that we don't know if something went wrong with his bladder procedure.

The Doctor is afraid of getting involved in doing an autopsy that might uncover medical malpractice.

Apparently this is usual, doctors don't want to snitch on other doctors?

Is this standard doctor loyalty in the medical profession?

We want to know how he went from being alive and laughing on Friday morning, to no longer here on Tuesday evening, surely it's in our right as his family to request an autopsy regardless of the what the circumstances leading up to his death might be?

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u/JadedBinXx — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/askSouthAfrica+1 crossposts

What was your experience as a woman, getting PRF breast augmentation?

I've seen a lot of the Instagram videos showing the before and after of PRF breast enlargement but I want to here from women themselves, if you've had this treatment.

What was the cost roughly? How soon did you see results? Was the difference big?
How long do results last?

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u/JadedBinXx — 2 months ago