u/Bascettastern

I've been allergic to birch pollen almost my whole life and also received immunotherapy for years as a child. It's mostly manageable enough with prescription free antihistamines that I take in spring.

However, this year it's an absolute disaster.

Firstly, where I live, it's a mast year for birch. I started having symptoms in freaking February which should be the dead of winter. It continued all the way up until like last week! Now the pollen monitoring app shows green for birch but I feel like nearly 3 months of active allergic reaction has taken a toll on my body.

Secondly, I'm 46 and noticing the onset of perimenopause symptoms very distinctly for the first time this spring and my body is just on the edge all the time.

Thirdly, I've had to take Amoxicillin 5 times since June last year because I had a dental infection which resulted in extraction and getting an implant. They prescribed antibiotics every time with the surgeries + twice for infection. I took probiotics each time, but still got a yeast infection. I'm generally not allergic to antibiotics, but I did get a rash one time as I was taking it on around the 5th day.

I think it's a combination of hormones, allergies, tje multiple antibiotics treatments and the duloxetine I'm taking and everything is just... irritable.

I can't really touch my face without feeling an urge to sneeze. If a stray hair rubs against my body, it feels like I'm itchy all over. As soon as I eat something sweet, I get urticaria on my chest and neck. It resolves on its own quickly, but it's super irritating. I've had a post nasal drip basically since December when I had the flu. It went from post-flu runny nose to pollen allergy runny nose and I still have a feeling of gunk in my throat every day. My eyes get itchy a lot and I developed an allergy to mascara, which I have never had before. Basically can't use mascara anymore without getting itchy eyes. My scalp often feels itchy.

My primary care doctor and gynecologist are both pretty indifferent, since I'm on duloxetine. It's basically psychosomatic-hypochondriac-perimenopause-livewithit. I'm disappointed by the superficiality, since both doctors are women in their 50s and 60s themselves. I didn't get a referral to an allergist.

I'm looking for advice from anyone with a similar experience. How do I deal with this? I'm really tired of having a hypersensitive irritable body all the time, especially the skin reactions and itchy eyes. The birch pollen season is over now, but I feel like this year it took such a toll that my body is just exhausted. Any recommendations on how to help myself recover?

I'm 46. I never had issues with hair loss before, but now something is amiss. I've been looking for possible causes, but there are two many suspects for me to try to pinpoint the culprit.

I have long hair, level 7-8, but because I have a lot of highlights, it looks more like 9. Probably because it's so light I didn't notice the thinning immediately, but rather started to notice more hairs in my house, in the drain and the amounts that came out after washing. My braid looks thinner. I blamed the damage from getting highlights and thought it would pass.

It hasn't and now I notice that it's noticeably thinner around the temples when I put my hair up.

I can think of a lot of reasons. I lost 10 kg from August to February. I'm having the first symptoms of perimenopause, for example, I've had 10-day periods twice. I'm on 30 mg of duloxetine. I got the highlights. I've been wearing my hair in a tight bun a lot. I didn't use the right shampoo for a long time, because I thought I needed the repair kind, but my hair was always so hard to comb after washing. Turns out it needs hydrating shampoo instead and it's been a game changer in terms of combability.

Idk if it is any of these causes or a combination of all of them, but I'd like some advice on how to stop it. If I keep shedding hair like this, I won't be able to wear a ponytail or a bun, because on the sides my scalp will be showing.

Should I consult a doctor and which one even? Dermatologist? Gynecologist? The only thing I can rule out is iron deficiency because I've been having it all my life and get tested regularly and take iron supplements.

Is any of this reversible? Is there anything I can do to make the shedding stop quickly? I started taking a hair vitamin with biotin and zinc and a bunch of other vitamins.

I'm really upset by this. I feel so much better weighing 10 kg less and the highlights took my hair colour back to the naturally light blonde tone I had as a child and young adult. I was happy with my looks for the first time in a decade and my hair looked amazing for once. And now it's just disappearing. Any advice is appreciated.

So I open Facebook app on my phone this morning and notice that the menu bar is missing. No icons for groups, notifications, videos etc. I scroll up and down and lo and behold, the menus are now floating AT THE BOTTOM!

Why, just why? What's the point of this absolutely useless and unnecessary update. Fix your real problems first, like posts randomly getting flagged for no reason and AI slop taking over everything.

Is there an option somewhere in the settings to choose where you want the menu? I looked, didn't find it. I hate having it at the bottom, even the most basic web browsers let you choose! No, not Facebook. Someone somewhere got paid for this idiotic "improvement". May all your devices crash and may your pillow feel hard and sticky!

Pfft, rant over.

Kas siin on inimesi, kes peavad kodus lemmikuna elukat nimega jumping spider, see karvane ja 8 silmaga? Reisil käies tutvus minu laps ühe kohaliku lapsega, kel oli see karvane ämblik kaasas! Vanemate sõnul elab ta neil kodus ja olevat suurepärane lemmikloom, lihtne hooldada ja olevat ka INTELLIGENTNE, nt saab temaga mängida natuke nagu kassi või koeraga, toksib jalgadega liikuvaid väikesi palle jne. Pidi veel tagatipuks ka SÕBRALIK olema. Minu laps muidugi ahvivaimustuses ja ajab nagu uni peale, et tema tahab endale ka.

Ma ausalt öeldes praeguse seisuga ei taha endale elamisse kaheksa silmaga ämblikku, kes hüppab ja käitub nagu kass. WTF?

Aga äkki ma kardan ilmaasjata ja see ongi tore lemmikloom? Niisiis, kas keegi omab sellist ja oskab mulle infot jagada? On neid üldse võimalik Eestis osta? Kas inimene, kes ei ole hariduselt entomoloog ja puudub varasem kogemus ämblikku pidada, suudab neile ämblikuväärse elukeskkonna korraldada? Ja kas ma pean neile elussööta pakkuma?

Ma hea meelega kuulaksin põhjuseid, miks EI saa seda elukat omale koju võtta, siis saan lapsele põhjendada paremini kui võehhhhh, ämblik. Aga kui tahate, võite mind ka ümber rääkida. Vaatasin videoid ja käituvad tõesti nagu polekski ämblikud.