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[TheDarkStar]

If you want a real sad:

I was going to do things today. Instead, I spent sixish hours with severe stomach issues. At one point I passed out and woke up on the ground with no idea how I had gotten there but it seemed I'm pretty sure I threw up (which occasionally happens in my family, so I'm not too worried) and had double vision and extreme fatigue (and my skin was pale and almost yellow) afterwards from a massive amount of fluid loss.

I'm feeling better now but I still had to cancel all my plans for today.

...Those are all signs of some rather serious things. Please go see a doctor, if you can.

If the symptoms show up again at all I will. For now, it seems to just be a short-lived stomach bug.

[Reelya]

But then if I shave my head will I be able to get a job? I mean, not that being top-bald in one's 20s would help in that department either.

I'm starting to wonder if any of the hair loss products actually work. Because I've heard that male pattern baldness has even less treatment options than cancer.

There are things that aren't even hair loss products that have been found to work. This one anti-dandruff shampoo (any one that contains Ketoconozole) was found in clinical trials to slow/prevent hairloss, and the stuff isn't even marketed as doing that, so it's not a marketing thing. But if your hair is far gone this isn't going to be effective: Ketoconozole and e.g Minoxidil/Rogaine work to increase existing hair health. So if your hair is starting to thin a little: changing shampoo and perhaps using Minoxidil could reduce the rate of thinning and let new hair growth keep pace with losses. But if you've got actually completely bald patches you're in unexplored territory. Finasteride is the heavy duty treatment, and the list of side effects sounds like the monster from a horror movie.

The reason I think treatments for complete baldness don't work is that by that time the skin on your head is no different to the skin on e.g. your hand. You've already lost the hair follicles for thick hair from that region, so no amount of chemicals is going to magically make your head grow new follicles there. Perhaps if they had this stuff where you rub it on any bodypart and it becomes hairy - now that would cure baldness, but come with all sorts of warnings.

[TheDarkStar]

The reason I think treatments for complete baldness don't work is that by that time the skin on your head is no different to the skin on e.g. your hand. You've already lost the hair follicles for thick hair from that region, so no amount of chemicals is going to magically make your head grow new follicles there. Perhaps if they had this stuff where you rub it on any bodypart and it becomes hairy - now that would cure baldness, but come with all sorts of warnings.

It's funny and slightly horrifying to contemplate accidentally ingesting something like that.

[ChairmanPoo]

I don't think androgenic allopecia causes loss of follicles proper. The hair just... thins out.

Indeed, IIRC hormone treatment will indeed result in growing  hair back... but you're basically chemically castrating yourself to a lesser or greater extent, and the reborn hair will only last as long as you take the treatment.

[Hanslanda]

The reason I think treatments for complete baldness don't work is that by that time the skin on your head is no different to the skin on e.g. your hand. You've already lost the hair follicles for thick hair from that region, so no amount of chemicals is going to magically make your head grow new follicles there. Perhaps if they had this stuff where you rub it on any bodypart and it becomes hairy - now that would cure baldness, but come with all sorts of warnings.

It's funny and slightly horrifying to contemplate accidentally ingesting something like that.

Creep show movie has a scene like this. A hick farmer boy with the brains of a deranged walnut finds a meteor in his yard one day. He splashes water on it to cool it off so he can sell it in town, and it splits open, revealing a goo. He touches the goo and after a day or two, grows green... Moss-stuff on his fingertips. Then his tongue. Then everywhere that touches the stuff growing on him. Eventually he looks like a moss-monster and blows his own brains out with a shotgun.

[Tack]

Was the kid debilitated at all, or just ugly?

[helmacon]

Did he try weed killer first?

[itisnotlogical]

Lately when I encounter certain stressors, I have a super-duper stress response where my heart starts racing/pounding, my chest is so tight it feels like all my organs are being crushed together, and I can't get enough air. It goes away if I can be alone for like thirty minutes and relax. Nobody I've explained this to gives a fuck.

[scriver]

Sounds like a panic/anxiety attack.

[itisnotlogical]

That was my theory, yes. I've had them before but very seldom and under much greater duress. They're prevalent in my mother's side of the family, too, so there's probably genetic vulnerability.

[WillowLuman]

Anyone ever vomited a bunch of grey sludge despite eating pretty much nothing all day before?

[TheBiggerFish]

Uh...That seems ungood, Hugo.

[Eric Blank]

At a restaurant and theres two groups of high school kids out after prom making a fuckload of noise. Fucking prom night.

[CABL]

Spoiler: Edgy political rant filled with whining (click to show/hide)

With the recent massacre of gays in Chechen and an overall shitty political situation in the world, I've become even sadder and depressive. Both Left and Right go to the extremes, mass media trying to enforce (and succeeding) Black and White worldview aka "Russians (Westerners) are good, while Westerners (Russians) are bad", spineless, hypocritical governments which have no ideology whatsoever... I really want to avenge the deaths of people which Putinists oppress; liberals, Ukrainians, LGBT people. But I know that I'm powerless against the government, nobody will join my cause, no matter how reasonable it is. I have zero chances of becoming a martyr and thus inspiring my fellow Russians. If anything, the government will defile me and put a label "terrorist" on me when I die. Russian mass media tells me that I should cheer when Ukrainian soldiers die, that I should be happy over dead homosexuals, but instead I feel sorrow and shame... But I shouldn't give up, I need to live, I have right to live!

[FearfulJesuit]

Feeling lazy, irritable and exhausted, and I've got so much shit that needs to get done over the next three weeks. Went to Walgreens and bought the highest-dosage Vitamin D supplement I could find, since it's been grey and overcast a lot lately, and I think that's part of the issue.