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So my seb derm is relatively under control these days - but that’s because pretty much my entire routine is now seb derm safe. I had to get rid of a lot of my skincare and makeup that could’ve been contributing to the flares (I get them around my nose/on my cheeks, eyebrows and eyelids) but haven’t found a great concealer yet.

I have rosacea and oily skin, but my under eyes are often crepey and prone to dryness. Blephaderm is the only eye cream that doesn’t make it worse or sting when I have a flare up, but it doesn’t hydrate my under eyes super well either.

I tried Fenty’s concealer and it made me look like I’d just been dug up after being mummified 7 centuries prior.

I’m currently using Charlotte Tilbury’s Magic Away concealer which is fine - the coverage is ok, not a bad shade match (the lightest shade oxidises SLIGHTLY too dark/orange but it isn’t super noticeable) and it doesn’t look too bad once it’s been sat for a while before using powder (if I do, but for longevity I kinda need to).

My fav concealer pre-seb derm flares was the Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer (shade Affogato was perfect for me) but the ingredients aren’t safe on Sezia, and I don’t want to risk going back to it and ending up with flaky eyes again. I tried the matte one in the pot before and that was too thick and drying on my undereyes too!

Anyone have any decent seb-derm safe suggestions?

I haven’t changed or added anything to my island and I was getting tarantulas all the time on my island just last month - at least one a night usually. I’ve played at least a few evenings every week since the start of May and haven’t seen a SINGLE scorpion! I’ve travelled to numerous islands with both Nook Miles and Kapp’n and yet my Critterpedia remains barren of the humble scorpion.

Are the scorpion spawn rates lower than the tarantula ones? I’d assume they’d spawn where tarantulas do, so surely if tarantulas could and were regularly spawning, scorpions also should? I’m baffled!

I’m 30 and was on birth control (Nexplanon) from the age of 19 until 27, so had 0 periods for about 8 years.

Prior to Nexplanon, my periods as a teenager were absolutely fine. Annoying (obviously) with mild cramping but they were fairly light-medium flow wise and lasted about 4 days.

I came off Nexplanon after I started getting recurring ovarian cysts (apparently a side effect of the BC) and slowly, since coming off it in 2022, my periods have gotten heavier and more uncomfortable.

They’re not yet debilitating, but comparing my period even today vs in 2022-2024, or back in 2015 and earlier, the cramps are much more pronounced, bigger clots, heavier flow and I also get random bleeding and cramps during ovulation (which I’ve never had before, started last year) and sometimes outside of that. They last about 5-6 days now, so an increase in flow and length.

I’ve also had chronically low iron since my periods have returned too.

All my recent ultrasounds from the last 2 years have come back normal, sometimes just a small occasional cyst, but I heavily suspect sometimes along the lines of endo, since the ultrasounds I got were to check for fibroids which came back clear.

Does this sound like it could be the start of endo, did yours start similarly? Trying to get it investigated further is a nightmare in this healthcare system!

I’ve been looking into barefoot shoes for a while now, but the toe area for most of them look like they’d be uncomfortably spaced for my naturally narrow/tight toes.

My mother and grandmother both had the exact same feet (naturally “shoe-shaped” lol), despite growing up rarely wearing shoes, going barefoot as much as possible and wearing sandals most of the other time (I’ve always hated socks), my feet are just genetically
narrow, my toes sit right next to each other without much space and I also have flat feet.

I’ve always found that toe spacers (like the ones for painting nails) feel torturous and unnatural!

Is there a good barefoot shoe that would be comfortable and fit this type of foot?

I’ve just started titration (methylphenidate for now) but I’ll be going on holiday to Italy in July, and will obviously hopefully be drinking lots of coffee and probably a good amount of wine, limoncello, etc.

I assume it would be best to skip my stimulant medication for the week considering the indulgence, but I was wondering what other peoples’ experience with holidaying with or without medication is like?

Additionally, if you avoided medication for the week, would you take it the day of the flight, or stop for a day or two before so it has time to fully leave your system, etc?

I had my first ever UTI (to my knowledge) back in January 2024, and it was missed for about a month due to my GP ordering every blood test etc., EXCEPT for a urinalysis. I didn’t have any classic UTI symptoms, just a fever, malaise, tiredness - it basically felt like a general infection of some sort.

Felt very ill for like 3 weeks and ended up in A&E with them finally discovering it. I was already on antibiotics so did another test after a few days and it came back clear (although I didn’t feel back to normal for a good few weeks afterwards).

Anyway, since then, I’ve been taking D-Mannose almost every night along with my probiotics. I’ll occasionally miss a day or two here and there, but I take it the majority of the time.

Every few months since the past year or so, I have a day or two where I suspect it’s the start of a UTI. Urgency to pee and it’s always a small amount, just more frequently. Kind of an ache (no burning or stinging when peeing though). This happens randomly, even when I’ve been hydrated, haven’t been sexually active & also when I’ve been taking my D-Mannose (one 1000mg tablet) daily.

I always get it for a day or two, and then it just… goes. Then I’m absolutely fine again for a few months and the same thing happens.

I’ve done at-home urine tests (the dipstick ones) and they always come back normal.

Does anyone else get something similar? I’ve read that D-Mannose helps with prevention, so surely it should prevent this? Or does it also help with the early stages of one?

Writing this as I sit here with nausea, shortness of breath, light-headedness from the air hunger and anxiety/a racing heartbeat… accompanied by obnoxiously loud gurgles!

I’ve been to A&E twice in the last few years due to similar symptoms, and although it still makes me anxious with the “what if”, especially when I’m gurgling incessantly like I am now, I just KNOW it’s all my RCPD symptoms and they’ll calm down in a few hours. I also have a hiatus hernia, and those accompanying GERD symptoms sometimes also cause chest pain too (so fun).

It’s so frustrating and I worry that I’ll end up overlooking a serious condition someday due to the overlapping unpleasant symptoms, but my botox last year didn’t work at all and I can’t get any more until later in the year, so having to deal with it!

Has anyone else ended up in A&E/Emergency only to find out it was their RCPD and/or GERD?

So since this morning, the inner part of my right elbow (where my veins are) has been aching when straightening my arm or turning it. The pain kinda shoots halfway down my inner forearm too. I also have more small dark spider veins around my blue veins (compared to the other arm).

This is in the same area I’ve had two hematomas in the past (from getting blood drawn at the hospital, a few years apart - last one was in 2024) and a feeling of aching does crop up now again, but it is more uncomfortable today, especially when needing to use my mouse at work.

Does this sound concerning and like I should get checked out, or is it more likely to be something like a strain or nerve pain? I haven’t done any heavy lifting to my knowledge, other than carrying some heavy groceries a few days ago, and it’s just this one arm.

No swelling or redness to my eyes and it doesn’t hurt if I touch or squeeze it, only when stretching or rotating my arm/forearm.