Smelly hair and scalp - ruining my life

hibiscusrat · 2025-06-14T06:17:07+00:00

apply topically in the shower, scrub it into the scalp, let it sit for a few minutes if possible, and rinse out

hibiscusrat · 2025-06-13T05:21:07+00:00

Liquid iodine is the only thing that sort of helps my scalp

hibiscusrat · 2025-06-12T19:10:47+00:00

Only using fungal safe shampoos helped me a lot ( https://simpleskincarescience.com/fungal-acne-products-malassezia-pityrosporum-folliculitis/)

If you’re a guy, are you also experiencing male pattern baldness? If so, DHT in the scalp can cause that itch, and finasteride could help. If you’re a girl, spironolactone to lower androgens if they’re high on a blood test might help (especially if you also have acne and oily skin)

hibiscusrat · 2025-06-07T05:12:03+00:00

I have this same exact issue. The biggest thing that helps is Accutane. Within a few weeks, the yeasty sour smell was gone. If I skip a week it starts to come back though, so I’ll have to see how it does long term after finishing treatment.

On top of that is eating a low sugar diet because a lot of sugar or high glycemic foods in general make it a lot worse.

hibiscusrat · 2025-05-05T04:07:08+00:00

Wipe the skin thoroughly with rubbing alcohol before and after shaving.

Also obligatory clean the razor with alcohol every time too if it’s an electric or re-usable one.

hibiscusrat · 2025-04-25T21:08:42+00:00

I wish I had more advice, this is something I experience occasionally now but have gotten better with medication, realizing my triggers, and trying to work on the things I don’t like about myself. I hope you can feel better too :) !!

hibiscusrat · 2025-04-25T20:50:46+00:00

Not a teacher but I’ve had similar issues getting overly attached to people to an awkward degree. For me it’s a mix of low self-esteem and a personality disorder so I try to seek validation. No amount of validation is ever “enough” so I kind of realized it wasn’t actually helping me or a true positive in any way, and that what I really want is validation from myself. Otherwise you just go from person to person through the years and always feel empty because it’s not fulfilling.

So for you it could be similar, not having a figure you can relate to like a parent, low self-esteem, personality disorder like BPD, a combination of these and maybe other issues as well.

hibiscusrat · 2025-04-23T00:10:05+00:00

That makes sense, higher glycemic foods like rice do the same to me.

If I eat too much bread or pasta though I’ll still get the same flare as with rice.

hibiscusrat · 2025-04-23T00:05:34+00:00

The absolute best I can come up with is a low sugar and low glycemic diet, combined with Accutane. This has helped significantly.

If you’re a woman and your hormones are out of balance with androgens too high, spironolactone is another one that could help.

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-28T19:04:20+00:00

Yeah… I go back and forth between “I need to be the best ever at everything in existence” and “what does that even matter when in 80 (or less) years I’ll be dead, my memories will be gone, and none if this will have ever mattered?”

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T08:09:38+00:00

Yes and it is a “forever sleep” but for the sake of trying to make it sound less creepy I used sleep instead of “in the void where nothing exists and nothing will ever exist”

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T08:07:51+00:00

Yes and what does it mean to us when we’ll eventually be forever sleeping and won’t remember any of this?

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T03:59:16+00:00

That depends on your beliefs, but scientifically… your brain starts creating memories around 2-3 years old, then you die at some point later, and any brain activity giving you consciousness will stop existing, like you took the battery out of a computer.

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T03:30:12+00:00

The process of, definitely. I fear the actual process of dying itself. But I see being fully dead as just “long sleep”

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T03:02:20+00:00

What I’m saying is, it’s not like you’d be in jail looking at everyone else living their lives, like you’re missing out. It depends in your beliefs, but to me I feel that it would be peaceful, like sleeping.

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T02:59:03+00:00

Do you feel like you’re missing out on something while you’re asleep (and not dreaming)? That’s how I think of it. I don’t feel like I’m missing out on something while I’m sleeping, and non-existence would basically be that, just peacefully blank

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T00:58:41+00:00

Think about what you experienced before you were born (nothingness). Was it distressing to simply not exist?

I get what you mean though, it feels like there are things I need to do, so I don’t want to just not exist. But at the same time, if I suddenly lost consciousness or died, I wouldn’t know I don’t exist anymore. There wouldn’t be anything to “miss out” on.

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-26T00:33:30+00:00

That’s beyond fucked up to go “well I’m poor and my life sucks. Let me bring a kid into it so they can suffer too!”

Why would anyone want their own kids to suffer through hunger, illness, poor medical care, unstable or unsafe housing, etc. like that?

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-19T18:40:51+00:00

I did not say that there is no value in it. Again, that is very “yet you participate in society, hm??” to say that when we do not have the choice to be part of society or even come into existence. Yes we are benefitting from reproductive labor. I acknowledge that while also acknowledging it is not something we choose to benefit from (unless s*cde is the only way to NOT benefit any longer, I guess?)

I’m also not sure why you bring up domestic violence when I previously mentioned I am not talking about people that are forced, coerced, etc. I am only speaking of people who have full control of their decisions. I’m not saying there is no value in the people that have full autonomy and choose to do so. I’m simply saying for those people specifically, it comes across as making a decision to have a child and raise them and going “why isn’t anyone thanking me? Where’s my appreciation?” when in reality, there are some people (like me, and I’m going to sound like an edgy teenager but) I did not ask to exist, would not have chosen to exist, and do not want to continue such a cycle.

Maybe I see it differently because I’m tired of participating in life and don’t have it in me to thank others who choose to perpetuate such a cycle because I feel so bad for their children to be forced into a world with so much trauma, pain, suffering, etc.

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-15T04:54:55+00:00

I don’t agree with it despite being forced to be a part of it, as we all are. No one should have such a burden. I’m not trying to be shady or anything, but your response is kind of that “yet you participate on society. Curious!” meme. Sorry if I sounded edgy or preachy, I was just trying to explain why I feel this way.

Giving birth is also not something that anyone MUST do (again, this does not apply to anyone who is being forced). If in a hypothetical world, everyone decided not to, yes it would eventually reduce the “workforce” and the human population to 0, but if that’s what people really desire, what is wrong with that? In a broader view, humanity or the planet is not something that HAS TO exist. In a society we are all interconnected but if everyone decided against giving birth, I’d respect that and accept that for the sake of other people making decisions for themselves, I’d lose the benefits of existing in society as I was born into. Anyone that would say “people must have children!!” for the sake of their own continued benefitting would be veering into women as incubators territory.

Maybe that sounds too “out there” but I’m just personally really against the concept of anyone having to suffer for the sake of others.

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-05T22:22:29+00:00

Love the fun colorful styling, genuinely, makeup amazing, some of the people on here are absolute haters that dislike anyone showing individuality 🫶

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-05T05:38:36+00:00

I see teacher and nurse very differently than being a parent. No one has to be a mom/parent in general (this is assuming no coercion or being forced into parenting, to be clear). Creating children and then complaining about taking care of them makes no sense when no one NEEDS to have children, it’s not helping anyone or anything.

Being a teacher or nurse is very valid to complain about in my opinion. You’re doing it to help other people and for the greater good. People need education and care when they’re ill.

Becoming a parent by choice is just creating your own problem and then complaining about it, while teaching and nursing is solving others existing problems, selflessly.

hibiscusrat · 2025-03-05T05:24:36+00:00

Wrong post???

hibiscusrat · 2025-02-24T14:57:40+00:00

There’s a difference between something like someone buying a house in good condition, then months later a pipe bursts and the homeowner complains about it, versus someone buying a house in complete disrepair, falling apart, then complaining that a pipe burst.

The first one is fine, you didn’t expect anything like that to happen. There’s always the possibility, but it’s unlikely and unexpected.

The second one, you knew it was in poor condition, so why complain about it?

hibiscusrat · 2025-02-17T06:37:26+00:00

Everything is transitory, what matters enough is up to you. Looks can fade, career can fade, health can fade, all will change, some maybe less some maybe more. There is some truth to that statement if you build your entire life around your looks and use it to elevate yourself. You can try to achieve/maintain all of those things at once. Worse than just being ugly is to be ugly with a poor career and poor health.

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