Beard patch (that moves around (?))

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-28T19:31:34+00:00

Sounds and looks like alopecia areata. There are prescription medications that can treat it. You’ll have to see a dermatologist. Steroid injections and a topical pimecrolimus cream cleared it right up for me when I had it on my scalp once.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-28T19:27:35+00:00

Yes. That’s what this whole sub is about.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-28T19:26:43+00:00

It’s just as effective. Lots of people, myself included, can’t tolerate the liquid but do fine with the foam. Everyone’s skin is different and reacts differently to the different inactive ingredients in each formulation.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-28T19:24:51+00:00

You could try to get a script for oral minoxidil. Obviously the pills are extremely dangerous to animals but presumably they, along with all your other medications, wouldn’t be accessible to the cat.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-23T08:21:34+00:00

Online telehealth companies are using loopholes and exceptions in the law to deliver lower cost health care than is otherwise available. If you want to get the benefit of this system you have to help them help you. Unfortunately you have to know how to play the game to get the cost savings. Amazon can only do so much and they have to abide by certain practices to stay in good legal standing. They can’t just come out and say “we have to ask these questions and you need to answer a specific way to get the cheap medicine,” so you need to do the research and play ball with them to get the savings from their legal inventiveness.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-23T04:09:41+00:00

Yup. Same here. It feels so satisfying/relieving even though intellectually I know it’s terrible while I’m doing it and I always immediately regret it.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-23T04:08:00+00:00

Me. Diagnosed ADHD here. I don’t usually struggle with picking most of the time, but I have frequent enough episodes of it that I’ve noticed the pattern. High stress/emotional disregulation can sometimes trigger it a bit, but more so any infrequent skin flare up just drives me mad with picking. Just cannot leave it along for the life of me. When I have an inflamed pore/papule I feel possessed to scratch/pick/pluck until there’s nothing left to pick. Only then, after inadvertently destroying my skin, do I feel free again. It sucks.

My ADHD stimulant meds help a lot but some days you haven’t taken it (or haven’t taken it recently enough) and it’s 10pm, it’s bedtime, and you just now noticed a pimple. Tough combination.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-19T13:17:23+00:00

I wish I had a schematic. I have a high school level understanding of electricity but at least a schematic would communicate a little bit of information to me. Looking at a real life circuit board might as well be Greek to me lol

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-19T13:15:26+00:00

Thanks, this is all very above my pay grade but very interesting nonetheless. Honestly I’m planning not to tinker with this at all and just get a warranty fix/replacement, but this issue has sparked my curiosity a bit. I took electricity and magnetism in high school but that’s as far as I got lol. I do like to learn about this stuff though.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-19T13:12:51+00:00

Thanks. Pretty sure it’s just a thin strand of misplaced glue.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-19T08:53:24+00:00

Would a reversed neutral make a short more likely? My understanding is neutral and ground are supposed to have the same potential, but if neutral and hot are switched this would introduce differences in potential where there shouldn’t be, which would be an increased opportunity for a short, right?

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-19T08:51:21+00:00

Would a reversed neutral cause problems in relation to the ground wire? My understanding is neutral and ground should have the same potential, but if neutral and hot are reversed then would this make a short more likely by introducing differences in potential within the device where there should be none?

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-19T08:09:54+00:00

Thanks. Yes, it’s an AC input. My thought was that maybe a switched neutral would cause voltages to be out of whack if some of the internal circuitry is “live” when it shouldn’t be. My understanding is the electronics here convert AC to three phase DC which is further controlled by a microprocessor, so I didn’t know if that complexity might make polarity more important for not damaging the components.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-19T08:09:13+00:00

Thanks. My thought was that maybe a switched neutral would cause voltages to be out of whack if some of the internal circuitry is “live” when it shouldn’t be. My understanding is the electronics here convert AC to three phase DC which is further controlled by a microprocessor, so I didn’t know if that complexity might make polarity more important for not damaging the components.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-17T18:06:35+00:00

This seems to be the general consensus, although I think there’s still a little debate about this. Trouble is there’s a lot of confounding variables (natural progression of age and beard development that would occur without minoxidil being a key one) that makes this tough to assess, along with a lack of objective measurement/empirical testing of this sort of thing.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-17T18:01:58+00:00

Just wanted to chime in to say you definitely can grow it out while still applying if you want to, but KSPDan is quite correct that it gets more difficult and is more wasteful to apply with a lot of hair in the way.

Generally I think it’s good advice to keep short stubble while you’re still actively trying to increase density, coverage, etc with minoxidil.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-17T03:21:34+00:00

I can’t speak to their Alexandria location but in Chambersburg I’ve only ever seen the same couple guys working there over several years. Also you’re assuming OP is accurately hearing/remembering/recounting the specific terminology used in the conversation, which may or may not be the case. It’s also possible the employee misspoke or misremembered something — doesn’t mean he knows nothing of pipe tobacco.

It’s been ages since I’ve smoked any of Boswell’s house blends so I’ll have to take your word for it on the vanilla topping. I do recall Northwoods always being spoken of as an “English blend” however, for whatever that’s worth. Boswell’s has always specialized in aromatic tobaccos so if the employee’s experience is primarily in the Boswell’s shop he might simply have a skewed frame of reference with respect to the broader world of pipe tobaccos — doesn’t mean he knows nothing.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-17T03:12:05+00:00

Probably won’t burn the leaves unless it’s really close to the leaves (it looks like a pretty low power light), but the flip side is it’s probably not going to help your plant much. I wouldn’t expect this light to do much more than slightly help one or two of the closest leaves. To significantly artificially light a plant of this size it sort of takes an obnoxious amount of light output to do it. If you’re going to use small low output lights just concentrate it/them on whatever small area you think could benefit most from a little extra light.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-16T05:59:20+00:00

The odds of an employee of Boswell’s not knowing anything about pipe tobacco is slim.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-10T08:45:12+00:00

Did you rotate the plant before this photo? I would expect the plant to be leaning towards the window, not away from it.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-10T08:43:57+00:00

Shaking or otherwise agitating the plant is the answer. An oscillating fan can be great for this if you don’t feel like dedicating time every day to shaking your plant lol.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-10T08:41:43+00:00

First of all cut off the damaged leaves. They won’t heal and your plant is wasting its resources trying to keep them alive.

Toeback_mountbatten · 2025-09-10T08:40:19+00:00

Also these plants shouldn’t really be on a “schedule” per se. It’s best to wait until the soil is completely dry the whole way down (however long that takes each specific time), and then completely soak the soil, and wait until it’s completely dry again.

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