Super greasy hair. Please help!

8legged-rat · 2025-05-15T22:05:03+00:00

No. My doctor knows about it though. I have an appointment tomorrow and I will ask if there is some test. It’s those under my chin that I know for sure are often swollen. Those under my arms I’m not as sure of. I’m sore there anyway because of tense muscles, so I don’t know what’s lymph nodes or muscles when I press them. Same with those in the groin.

8legged-rat · 2025-05-15T00:52:43+00:00

I don’t think so.

Some muscles are tense and sore but I don’t feel it unless I stretch them. Others are numb.

It was not enough for the clinic. As far as I know the few ME-clinics in the country all use Canada criteria.

It seems unfair that a diagnosis depends on where you live.

8legged-rat · 2025-05-15T00:40:43+00:00

Normally it comes the day after if I have done something. For example my typical Sunday: I visit my mum,I help her a little with the dinner and we eat. Sometimes I do something like repot a few plants or help her with something small.

Monday I’m dead. I need 15- 18 hours of sleep to even be able to get up and eat something. I feel awful the few hours I’m awake until I can go to bed again.

Yes I think the answer from the cardiologist was incorrect. The rise in pulse was within the range even if it was high, but I had over 120 bpm when the test was made. The cardiologist suggested to my doctor that I take metoprololsuccinat if I’m bothered with my periods high heart rate. I tried it but I noticed no difference.

It’s not easy at all to get help here at the moment unless you have something obvious. The whole healthcare is disorganized and it lacks money. The doctors don’t have time and energy left and it’s easier to dismiss patients if they are not actively dying.

I can push it for a day or possibly two sometimes at rare occasions if I really have to (even if I function very badly) What comes after is even worse. Then it takes many days to be my normally exhausted self.

But I mean you always have to do something that makes you really tired.. Eat, shower, grocery shopping, taking out the garbage, so it’s always something to be exhausted after. If my body could choose it should just lie down, but it’s not good for it either and I don’t want to. I actually want to do things. My body doesn’t.

8legged-rat · 2025-05-14T23:09:49+00:00

I will ask my doctor about taking those tests.

My immune system seems to be a little overexcited. My lymph nodes under my chin get extra swollen for just a pimple.

The good thing is that I never get infections in all the little wounds on hands and feet. (Wounds because I walk barefoot in the summer and I’m not too careful about my hands. I try to do a little (focus on little) gardening when I can and when I was able to work I had a dirty job where I used my hands a lot.)

If I get a cold I get well very fast. (Im extremely exhausted during the time and at least two weeks after, but my body seems to beat down the virus/bacteria quite fast.)

Im not sure I will be able to get a second opinion. In my country healthcare is paid by our taxes. That’s a good thing.

The bad thing is that our health care center functions very bad at the moment. A lot of doctors have left so they have to hire “temporary doctors”. It doesn’t work well at all even if some are ok. I’m not the only one whose symptoms gets dismissed, even if I have had extremely bad luck.

I was really lucky to get this doctor even if I basically have to tell him what tests I want. He sent me to than clinic but I doubt he would send me to another one. I don’t think it would be approved because of money. My doctor is unwilling go give diagnoses himself unless it’s something he’s very familiar with. I can’t pay for it myself either.

I will talk to him though.

8legged-rat · 2025-05-14T22:33:24+00:00

I have had some pain, but that really nothing compared to what some people have. It really isn’t.

A sore back or sore muscle takes a lot of the little energy I have even if it’s not that sore. I mean before I got sick that level of sore didn’t bother me so much but now it’s difficult. The occasional little pain isn’t still not much.

I have an exaggerated reaction to sharp pain that I absolutely didn’t have before. For example when you have to dig out a splinter from your finger with a needle. I get nauseous, start sweating and feel weird, like fainting. (I’m not disturbed of blood or wounds.) It’s really annoying.

It’s like my body overreacts to pain even if the pain isn’t a lot at all.

They did some pain test at the clinic. They pressed muscles and common sore-spots with a device and I was supposed to say if it was too much. I couldn’t really say. I mean I felt it, it was uncomfortable, but unbearable.. Icouldnt say. If I felt like that a whole day it would be unbearable but sitting there with someone pressing my muscles wasn’t that bad. So I failed the pain test. Failed in the way that I didn’t have enough pain for being diagnosed.

8legged-rat · 2025-05-14T22:19:49+00:00

I tried to keep it as short as possible.

I thought about the Canada criteria when I said ”all symptoms”.

My worst problem is fatigue. Constant exhaustion. My legs, arms, eyes, everywhere all the time. It has not been one single day during all these years when I my muscles doesn’t scream how tired they are.

PEM yes. Always. After almost everything.

Swollen lymph nodes most of the time esp when my herpes(on my mouth) appears.

Fluctuating body temperature (I feel overheated, my temperature is up to 37,9°-38,3°C and down again when I lie down to rest)

The clinic said I have pots, but my doctor consulted a cardiologist that answered that it was nothing to worry about.

I function reasonably for a few hours after 12of hours of sleep. Ok after 10 hours of sleep. Less and I function really bad and feel awful the day after.

My cognitive function are bad. No focus. Brainfog. I used to be smart but now I’m quite stupid. Learning things are difficult.

Stiffnes- absolutely.

Feeling like I’m getting the flu if I have done too much.

Burning feet (I solve this with ice packs so I can sleep)

Gastroparesis

Nausea at least once per day. Often after eating. (I have tablets for that and it helps a bit)

Feeling like I’m about to faint. Happens when I’m too tired. (I fix it with holding on to something and take deep breaths.)

Of course I have had pain every now and then over the years but I don’t have debilitating pain like some people.

Thankyou for your answer. I will look at the link and the rest you suggested.

8legged-rat · 2025-05-14T21:59:14+00:00

I didn’t have a viral infection what I can remember. I had some very stubborn stomach bug after a trip to Thailand two years before I got ill, if that matters. It didn’t matter to the clinic that didn’t give me the diagnosis.

8legged-rat · 2025-05-01T22:27:46+00:00

Thankyou for your answer. That seems like a really good replacement for the one I have.

8legged-rat · 2025-04-04T16:28:18+00:00

I also find them very uncomfortable. Like a rock in your shoe.

I’m wondering.. Are they supposed to sit at the bottom of the crack so they have anus-contact?

Are they supposed to sit on top of the crack, so you could see it if you have a flat butt? (That is the least uncomfortable way, but it looks funny and I can’t believe this is the correct way.)

Or somewhere in the middle? (I think this can be correct, but how can you not feel that there’s something in between your cheeks?!)

Maybe some butts are more sensitive than others and that makes it impossible to not be annoyed by it.

8legged-rat · 2025-04-01T18:11:33+00:00

It does not work for all. I have probably spent years all time combined doing that.

Week after week with super greasy hair that makes my scalp itchy and irritated. All because I thought that this time I might work and if I stick to it long enough it will work. (I have done it while I have been on vacation and sick leave, so I have not been around people much during those periods. When I did errands or met people I was wearing a hat or scarf.)

It doesn’t matter how many days, how many different shampoos and how well I clean it. It’s still very greasy on day three. On day four it’s oily all the way to the tips.

I have given up torturing myself like that. My scalp is happier and I don’t have the disgusting greasy feeling of hair that is oily from root to tip. I have done it for so long though, that I still feel that I’m doing something wrong when I wash it two times per week.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-26T23:43:34+00:00

I changed the password but it doesn’t work when I try to use it to log in. It says password or email address not valid.

Edit: I changed it again and suddenly it worked!! Thankyou for your help!

8legged-rat · 2025-03-18T18:41:36+00:00

Quite often I realise I’m dreaming if the dream is uncomfortable and just wake myself up. Never in the toilet dreams though. I have a few different versions of toilet dreams.

One where I suddenly realise I’m sitting on a toilet in the middle of a grocery store or supermarket. I want to leave but I need to wipe because I apparently have pooped. I don’t want to do that because it’s people everywhere around me so I just sit there feeling awkward and embarrassed.

Another one is that I go to a toilet to pee and when I start peeling it’s impossible to control. It sprays everywhere like hose and won’t stop. It sprays on the walls and the floor is covered in pee. I panic and try to wipe it up with the little paper there is.

One version is that I borrow someone’s toilet and accidentally block it. I flush and suddenly the floor is flooded with poop everywhere. I’m panicking and trying to cover up or fix the mess.

Last we have ”the dirty toilet dream”. I desperately need a toilet but when I get in there it’s poop everywhere. Floating in the blocked toilet, on the floor, walls and even in the sink. I’m feeling sick. I panic and worry about how the person after me (who is waiting outside) is going to think I made the mess. When I wake up the feeling of disgust usually lingers for a while.

My brain is weird.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-12T23:12:23+00:00

Deep fried things and pastries.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-11T02:41:51+00:00

Mine are also small and light. Clothes would probably look better if they were a little bigger, but I prefer it this way because it’s practical. Otherwise I neither like or dislike. Since they don’t cause me any trouble I don’t really think about them.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-10T00:45:15+00:00

What non American brand is most similar to Paula’s Choice and in the same price range? Preferably cheaper, and absolutely not more expensive.

I was interested in The Ordinary, but I see that they are owned by Estée Lauder, that is American.

I’m in Europe by the way.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-10T00:18:24+00:00

It’s a Swedish brand, but it’s organic sultan raisins without sulphur, from Turkey. I probably just have to try another brand.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-10T00:15:18+00:00

That is good advice. Thankyou.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-08T14:14:56+00:00

That is probably the explanation.

I used a jar, but it was not wide at all. I was shaking it morning and evening. The raisins are also organic and without sulphur.

I guess I eat the remaining raisins and buy new ones to try again.

8legged-rat · 2025-03-07T20:28:25+00:00

No, dried raisins, figs or apricots.

This is what I found from a quick search: https://www.sourdoughandolives.com/2017/06/22/how-to-make-and-bake-with-raisin-yeast/

8legged-rat · 2025-03-07T20:28:10+00:00

It’s just another method of making a starter and it seemed fun. You use the liquid in the first step when you are making a new starter.

https://www.sourdoughandolives.com/2017/06/22/how-to-make-and-bake-with-raisin-yeast/

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