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I am aware laser hair removal is not a one time process and only reduction etc that needs maintenance over time. However, I had a question about the longterm that I forgot to ask at my last appointment.

My laser tech was saying I need to keep up with it or it will all grow back and that she still has 2/3 top up sessions per year after 20 years. If this is the case surely you just keep doing it forever until your hair is grey. At that point it would no longer work? Is this what happens? It grows back in grey? I guess my question is what happens in the long term assuming there are people who don't get sick of doing the top ups and just stop.

(Sorry this is probably really obvious once you have done it!) -I wanted to port my US phone number to Google Voice in order to keep it active, it looks like doing so disables your US phone contract immediately but you also must do it before you leave the US. What is the best time to do this then? If I do it the day I go presumably I won't be able to use my phone in the airport/ when I arrive?

Just wondering if anyone has advice on the best way to do this?

Any recommendations for electrolysis near Clapham Common? I see a lot of places that seem to do it as one of like 100 services on offer which makes me a bit suspicious. I'm not sure what is normal for London but I have been getting it for over a year abroad, always at specialised places as I was under the impression it is quite a specialised skill. Any recommendations welcome.

I have checked previous posts! I can't find the answer to the specific issue I am encountering. I have a small one bed apt and am not planning to bring much stuff (no furniture just personal items and clothes) so I looked into the pallet/DIY shipping.

However i'm not sure that will work because they all require you to have a huge outdoor ground level staging area which maybe I guess could work if you live in a suburban house but for basically anyone who lives in a city or in a high rise apartment its unworkable? I live in an apartment but there are steps to ground level and no private outdoor space. Even if I could put it on the street I would need a permit and would not feel safe leaving it outdoors....

Do people who live in cities just have to hire movers as well? Or full service shipping? I guess the only other option would be to do send my bag but that feels a bit less secure....

Wondering if anyone who is on an orexin agonist trial for N2/IH can comment on the impact on sleep? I've heard mixed things from N1, some that it regulates sleep, some that it doesn't. As we likely have a slightly different relationship with orexin I was wondering if any N2/IH participants could comment on this?

I know there is no official number but when I have asked around I have heard wildly differing answers, some people say 5-10 to be safe, 3-5 or even just one. I struggle to find 100s of suitable jobs to apply to each week, theres maybe 1-2 max that look interesting and fit my experience well...sometimes less. Any more than that I would just need to bulk it up with random stuff.

Any steer on what is considered acceptable?

Only at 3.50/3.0 but the nausea is so crippling I really can't eat for half of the day. I've lost way too much weight and really don't know what to do. Zofran does nothing, I was taking Cyprohetadine at night for it too- that also didn't help. I will try to go down on dose but I might have to get off it at this stage if I lose any more weight......

I am 35F and have noticed in the last two years my skin has started to become crepey and sag. Is this normal? I have noticed my stomach/ boobs sagging a lot but my armpits are weirdly crepey as well as the inside of my arms and thighs.

I have been struggling with health issues and therefore lost weight/ sleep badly so not sure if that is responsible or if this is normal? It feels a lot sooner than I was expecting this but I guess things always feel that way.

I am at a fairly low dose still- 3.25/3.0 so I don't know if lowering the second dose is the answer. I sleep well on this but have horrible sleep inertia in the morning still (I have IH) and really struggle with exhaustion/ nausea until about 2pm. Lately I have been feeling good in the evenings but it feels like a waste because I spent most of the day feeling too sick to do anything. Zofran doesn't help.

Has this happened to anyone else? Any tips? I tend to feel better as the day goes on. This happened with Xyrem too.

That sounds like a stupid question and I know certain machines are best but I just can't figure out the HUGE variety in price. E.G the place I am getting it is like $300 for 6 sessions and the same area elsewhere can be $1,200. What is accounting for that difference? Its not IPL its a real laser machine and has been fairly successful-I've been going for a year and have had a big reduction although I still have hair....

I just don't understand why there is so much variety in pricing with laser. Are the more expensive ones more effective? Quicker? Or just more expensive. I figured it was that chains like Sev and LaserAway are overpriced but I have seen this difference even with individual salons.

I have posted here before that I was getting electrolysis for a year (weekly) on my chin and not noticing any improvements. I knew it was a long process and was trying to just be patient in case I was somehow making progress I hadn't noticed etc.

Today I finally went to a new place just to try it out and I feel INCREDIBLY stupid. The whole thing was effortless but the most noticeable thing was I did not feel the hair come out AT ALL. I knew to beware of tugging but because my electrologist is very experienced and I didn't feel tugging when she did my eyebrows I assumed the plucking I felt on my chin was just the texture of my skin. This new experience was TOTALLY different though. I only felt the zap.

So now I am thinking a. did I just waste a year doing useless electrolysis but b. did that make it even worse?! I know you are not supposed to pluck the hair or it can increase the growth?

Was everything I have had so far a total waste of time? What as the first electrologist doing?! I feel really stupid for not trying something else sooner but there are not many people near me and because everyone kept telling me its a long process and you have to be patient I was trying to be.....

I did bring up the lack of progress but because its a hormonal area its hard for me to argue there should be more. Am I basically starting at the beginning now?

Sorry everyone - big question to which there is probably no "answer" but a million personal struggles with this in various forms. However I am struggling to figure it out for myself and wanted to ask how other people see things.

Chronic illness (and all illness) necessarily means that in some way you have fewer "spoons" than others. Thats why illness is undesirable, it impacts your capacity in some way. The way society is set up every adult meets a certain number of daily demands (e.g work/ daily living tasks) after these demands are met then the excess capacity can then be used for the actual fulfilling "living" beyond that, things they want to do, family life, social lives, relationships, hobbies etc.

With chronic illness you have fewer spoons to start with (e.g losing hours a day to symptoms) and you have to add in an extra bucket of demands: drs and medical care, which can be extremely time consuming and draining.

Therefore the situation I am in and I imagine most are in is that my demands are mismatched to my capacity right from the start, I have e.g 5 spoons and demands cost 6. Therefore I can't see a way for that a. to be sustainable and b. to have any sort of real "life" beyond struggling to meet demands.

I am struggling to see how I can reorganise things to make it workable. I am single and self reliant therefore hard to outsource any tasks. It is very hard on a practical level to reduce the baseline demands and this creates other issues.

I was just wondering how others have managed this?