u/EmployeeClean8358

I went to the dermatologist today. He looked at me for a bit, then wrote me a prescription. I will not take any medications from his prescription, because what he advised me to do is ridiculous.

He told me to take:

• Accutane 20 mg once a day for 5 months (didn't even mention any side effects. Don't want to take it cause i'm afraid of the side effects.)
• 4 pills of prednizone for a month
• Solantra
• Endoform
• some kind of cosmetic product from ivatherm (i know very little about these last 3).

He didn't prescribe me anything specifically seborrheic dermatitis related and the whole consult took like 5 minutes. He also gave me a list of like 10 dietary restrictions, which is crazy. The dude didn't even confirm what the diagnosis was until i specifically asked him "Is it seborrheic dermatitis?". He kept referring to it as "the condition you have". Didn't even write a diagnosis on the prescription for the meds. I am very disappointed and think his treatment plan is to severe for a non-severe form of seborrheic dermatitis, but i also want to know reddit's opinion on this.

I'm gonna have to take things into my own hands, cause the old communist doctors from my home country are giving me exclusively bs.

After researching on this subreddit. My current list of what i want to buy is ketocozonal or some other antifungal shampoo. Some sort of topical antifungal (probably gonna have to see another doctor for this prescription). I am researching C8 MCT oil and other stuff on this sub. Somebody also told me about Zoryve, however it's not yet approved in Europe. If there is a suitable alternative in Europe and i like what i find while researching, I may consider it. I have only begun doing research so these are still just ideas. The way i want to go about it is to try milder first-line treatments first and then if that doesn't work, try the harsher ones. This doctor jumped straight to the harshest treatment i could imagine.

Is there anything else you would suggest or think I should know about?

Hi. I want to take my coding skills up a notch by completing several interesting programming projects. The first one being a raytracer. I want to complete the guide "Raytracing in one weekend", by Peter Shirley, Trevor David Black and Steve Hollasch.

It has been going great, but it lacks the improvisation and high amounts of problem solving that happened in the past when i would try to complete a project without outside help.

At the same time, the code i am writing is very clean and maintainable, because all of the design problems of how to create the raytracer architecture have been solved long before me in the guide. I feel like i understand OOP and a bunch of other stuff better than before.

My goal is to learn and to become a better programmer. I am afraid that following tutorials will make me feel good about my programming skills without actually improving a.k.a. "Tutorial Hell". My current plan is to follow along with tutorials to get a foundation for how the program i'm trying to build should work and then add my own features to the project to actually make it "my own".

I am interested in hear what other people have to say about this issue, as I'm sure, I'm not alone in feeling this way. I have already tried learning programming in the past and got stuck on a plateau, before losing interest. 1 year has passed since that. My passion for programming has returned and i don't want to make the same mistakes as before, so can you guys please give me some advice :)