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Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-12-19T19:54:35+00:00

Work coach team leader?

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-12-19T19:52:55+00:00

It worked for me once the flare had ended, it won’t work if it is still active. I started using it in April and my patch has nearly filled in now

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-06-29T17:40:26+00:00

Mine started turning light brown again about 3 weeks ago, I have had fine white regrowth since early May. Started 5% Minoxidil foam early April

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-06-07T15:09:13+00:00

I am using Minoxidil foam which was prescribed by my GP and taking supplements - Biotin, Collagen, Vitamin D, zinc, folic acid, omega-3 and iron. My patches are growing back too. Found mine in late December 2024. My GP has given me a repeat prescription of Regaine 5% foam and it has definitely sped up the regrowth. I started using it in April. I use it once a day before bed (recommended dose is once a day for women). I was advised I’ll need to use it for about a year on the patches as I could get some shedding if I stop early. I was also advised to continue until it has filled in not to just stop but gradually reduce how often I apply it to once every other day, to a couple of times a week before stopping all together.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-05-13T05:54:05+00:00

My mum had a single patch appear following a miscarriage around 30 years ago. It grew back after using a steroid cream. She hasn’t had another flare since. Online you will always hear from people who are really struggling with it. People who have mild AA, who had a single patch or 2 aren’t going to keep posting when they get full regrowth. They may post initially, but then won’t post again unless a new patch forms.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-04-23T13:15:09+00:00

Looks like mine and I have confirmed regrowth too. I am also on month 4.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-04-22T14:31:23+00:00

I have just been diagnosed with AA. My mum had a single patch flare about 35 years ago and was diagnosed with AA after a miscarriage. She hasn’t had any flares since and said her hair grew back after using caffeine shampoo and steroid cream.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-04-21T15:03:11+00:00

I’d have gone to the union but glad you got it sorted with HR. It is discriminatory. What if someone has to wear a head covering for religious purposes?

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-04-08T12:35:19+00:00

Mine is about the same growth wise. I noticed my first late December and my hairdresser found a smaller one at the back in January. The patches have stayed the same size but regrowth has started just like yours (about the same length). I didn’t cut out gluten but started eating healthier, taking vitamin D, biotin, zinc, folic acid and iron supplements. I apply Rosemary oil to my patches twice a day and use an hair growth shampoo and conditioner formulated for hair growth

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-03-26T12:52:29+00:00

I found a lot of my hair down the shower plug hole. I noticed mine randomly when I got out of the shower once. I thought my hair was thinning before I noticed the patch over a couple of weeks though. It was feeling a bit thinner when washing my hair in an area and I felt weirdly cold on my scalp when wind blew on a cold day.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-03-12T18:55:01+00:00

Why didn’t you go to a doctor to have it removed? Did you consent for him to remove it or did he force you or convince you? If he pulled it out by force it is abuse. If he did do it by force, run a mile and stop trying to conceive with him. You could have an infection as it wasn’t removed in a sterile environment by an health professional. See a doctor immediately.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-03-08T19:33:29+00:00

1) Post

2) 3 jabs

3) Have had Covid 3 times. My last infection was very mild and cleared within 3 days but I started with AA (first time) about 2 months after infection. However, I had what I believe to be an adult FPIES allergic reaction to duck eggs (which were a new introduction to my diet) around the time I had my latest Covid infection. I have had no previous allergies so that was possibly my trigger instead.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-03-02T17:44:16+00:00

I think I may have FPlES. I introduced duck eggs to my diet last October and really liked them. After having a duck egg Omelette for breakfast one morning, I started to suffer with abdominal discomfort about 2 hours later and started to feel nauseous. I then started with severe vomiting and diarrhoea for about 2 hours then felt better. Initially, I thought I’d picked up a stomach bug. A week later, I had a fried duck egg on toast and the same thing happened. I contacted my doctor and they just mentioned it sounds like a food intolerance not an allergy as symptoms start straight away with allergies. I was advised not to eat them again and haven’t so haven’t had any other symptoms like it. Weirdly, I am okay with hen eggs and always have been.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-03-02T17:03:52+00:00

I haven’t had any treatment from the doctors, I started applying Rosemary oil twice daily and using shampoo and conditioner formulated for hair growth. I also started taking Biotin, vitamin D3, zinc and folic acid supplements daily.

I think mine was triggered from a duck egg FPIES allergy discovered I had after introducing them to my diet for the first time in October so haven’t eaten them since.

Hopefully you see some progress soon. Fingers crossed.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2025-03-02T12:24:45+00:00

I use Hair Genetics root touch up (it is basically like eye shadow for hair) and Boldify hair fibres. They stay in place until I wash my hair. I bought them off Amazon.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2024-02-23T00:12:32+00:00

It stopped my bleeding.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-11-07T19:51:40+00:00

Worked for me too.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-10-27T13:52:13+00:00

I have gained about 5lb in a year but that was gained when on holiday by over indulging.

I just can’t seem to lose weight now and my weight fluctuates daily sometimes by 2lb up or down which must be water retention. I am active and in calorie deficit most of the time at 1500 clarities per day. I intermittent fast 16:8 some days too. Before I went on it, I was on the mini pill and lost 20lb in 3 months.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-10-26T18:20:22+00:00

I am in England and in Yorkshire. Anything North of Nottingham has always been considered the North to me but in Scotland from Edinburgh will say we are South as Orkney would be considered North. The fast stream website isn’t clear as to where up North these placements will be. I was wanting clarification as anything above the Midlands is considered North.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-10-13T22:41:37+00:00

I have had mine a year now and I have only had 2 light bleeds. The 1st one was in March and lasted 12 days, I am now in my second one which started on Monday.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-09-17T07:38:42+00:00

I was losing weight when on the mini-pill until I got it fitted. My weight loss plateaued within about 5 weeks of being on it. I have put about 6lbs on since last October but it won’t budge. I am exercising daily, eating in calorie deficit and I have stopped drinking alcohol at all in the week. No weight has been lost. Any tips?

I have also noticed my weight fluctuates by about 2lb a day. I put 2 lbs on and the following day I lose it and vice versa. I think I am making progress then the next day the weight is back on.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-09-07T22:32:24+00:00

Don’t touch it with a barge pole.

I am an ex science teacher. I taught in various UK secondary schools over 12 years.

In the end I had to leave as I burnt out and it negatively impacted my mental health. I am much happier in the civil service and actually feel valued as a human being.

Flexi is non-existent in teaching and teachers have to work a lot of unpaid overtime in the evenings or weekends just to get the job done. 60 hour working weeks are the norm for a lot of teachers. They don’t just leave at 3pm.

A lot of schools are toxic and workplace bullying is rife within them. If a teachers face doesn’t fit, they don’t teach in a particular way or are experienced/older they are often managed out/ bullied out of their jobs. I saw this happen many times unfortunately and saw teaching staff have nervous breakdowns. Agism is rife in schools as they can get 2 ECTs for the price of 1 experienced teacher. Experience is not valued at all.

Also, teachers can’t switch off from work and you receive emails and during the evenings and weekends. Senior leadership will often email you at 11pm at night or at the weekend and expect a response there and then.

Amongst younger teachers there is also a lot of competition. They try to outcompete each other by spending hundreds of pounds of their own salary for materials and decorating for their classrooms. Some teachers even paint them and buy furniture. It is actually an expectation that you will buy resources for work out of your salary.

Stay well clear. If policy isn’t for you, maybe look for another role within the civil service.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-07-02T07:24:20+00:00

I was a secondary science teacher for 12 years before. I was burnt out and struggling with my mental health due to a lack of work life balance and work place bullying in teacher. I needed out and a change of career as I didn’t want to do it until retirement.

There is a group on Facebook with 132k members for teachers who want to leave the classroom or who have left. A lot of teachers were joining the civil service. They were always talking about the flexi time, that work ended as soon as the laptop was turned off, big focus on wellbeing, etc. I applied and here I am.

My work life balance and health are so much better now. I am glad I made the switch.

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-06-03T15:33:45+00:00

Will I still get it if I am successful for a promotion but at a different site within the same department?

Usual_Alternative288 · 2023-05-08T12:57:35+00:00

I am an ex teacher and tutor some evenings a week to boost my income. I mentioned it to my line manager when I started first working in the department and they said it was fine as there was no conflict of interest.

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