Hello! First time posting on reddit, nervous as hell :( I am 22F and I have contracted MC in mid November 2023. Thought it was an acne spot on my thigh and scrubbed it = now MC is everywhere on my body. I have trouble accessing dermatological help due to my current country of residence having a professional dermatology crisis. Derms in my city either don’t treat anything, but cancer or just don’t give appointments to new patients. I have by pure luck scored an appointment with a rather apathetic doctor and she cryo’d me once, basically telling me to just chill, wait and never come back. I have visited my home country for a week and had one cryo session there as well, and have been prescribed Interferon creme 20 days with 10 days breaks/X3: Interferon helps A LOT, but during the breaks all hell breaks loose.
1) Has anyone ever used interferons as a experimental treatment of MC? 2) I currently have over 100 tiny, extremely tiny dots, which are obv molluscum. How on earth can i treat the microscopic ones?
I am not going well mentally, as it has been now 6 months i’ve had it, would appreciate your tips on these two issues !

Hi all, My second Bub ended up not breastfeeding so I’m pumping and supplementing with formula.
Shes never taken more than 120ml (4 oz) per feed but she’s SO HUNGRY every 2-2.5 hours during the day.
She does great overnight, 3/4hr stretches but in the daytime it’s literally only 1 hour sometimes and she’s demanding more. Usually 2 hours in I can predict when to start heating the milk.
She goes from happy and smiling to screaming hungry in about 2 minutes and settles the second she gets the bottle so I do genuinely think she’s hungry.
Any tips or tricks for getting some longer stretches? I’m so sick of cleaning 10+ bottles every day!

Hi I have a home preschool for children ages 2-5 years old. I have a preschool classroom and also a playroom. I have 2 students one is my daughter and the other a 2 year old toddler and she’s doing great! After months of advertising I’m not getting anyone to even take a tour of my home preschool. My prices are reasonable and I’m very sweet and passionate about children. 2 days a week is $150 a month 3 days a week is $275 month 5 days a week is 375 month Full-day preschool is 7:15am- 5:15 for $1020 monthly.
I’m confused should I shut down my preschool because parents aren’t responding I’m beginning to think it’s not even needed. 🤦🏾‍♀️

My husband received his successful visa email on the 9th of May (dated the 7th of May) but he still hasn’t received the email to go pick his passport up yet. It’s been 2 weeks now. Is this normal? And is anyone else experiencing this long wait?

I was prescribed 12 weeks. Did check in. Approved for more. My “peak” was like the first 2 or 3 weeks. What I mean by peak is I really felt its effect. It suppressed my cravings and appetite tremendously. I lost like 12 pounds in 2 weeks. Some was definitely water weight, but maybe 5 pounds. It then took 2 months to lose the next 8 pounds. I was never able to lose weight on my own so the med was still working. It was helping me maintain about a 500cal/day deficit. Then, I was still taking it but plateau. Not gaining/not losing for about 2 months. I took a week off while on vacation. I thought it helped with the tolerance I clearly developed. No obvious withdraw effect. I was still eating in a slight deficit I believe from my maintenance. But only a little, didn’t lead to additional weight loss and still in plateau.
About 2 weeks ago, I took a week off unintentionally. I couldn’t place where the medication was. I had a lot of fatigue, ate a lot over my deficit and ate over maintenance a few days. It actually made me a little sick. For whatever reason; it was a complete reset. I got back on and it’s working as well as like the first week I ever took it. Like I joke it’s almost working too well. I’m not hungry at all. I finally broke the plateau. What happened? How is this possible?
My theory is on vacation, I wasn’t eating enough to give my body break to reset tolerance. But the second break, especially because it was close to when the first one reset my body and tolerance level. For the moment, I’m enjoying it while it lasts.

Hi, the only reason I am writing this opinion is because I'm so fed up and hopeless with the way Poloniex Support deals with requests. In March 2024 I requested my trading history. Received it a week later. Then I found out the values are quite vague. Just one of the many examples:
Bought 900 XRP for BTC while the total fee for that transaction equals to 2.24 BTC - which obviously is incorrect. Although, this example is very obvious that the fee currency is XRP, not BTC, in case of similarly priced assets it's not that clear which one that is.
I've escalated this issue with the Support team but I was told several times that they're working on it with a high urgency. Yet, it has been like this for months! Every single time assuring me they're working on it. Do 85 rows require months? I need to pay my due taxes on time...
Has anyone dealt with a similar situation in the past?

I have been on the Gigantic Grind for last two weeks or so. Finally hit level 200. Newcomer to game and community & as much fun as this game is or could be: we players are suffering from poor queue times, constant bugs that are beyond a game’s playable capacity. I play on console and I’m sure everyone is also experiencing the same issues.
Here are few bugs I have personally encountered since playing.
1) Random area’s of the Map causes you to fall through platform.
2) If one player disconnects, entire game will undergo rubber band lag which is unplayable.
3) Being prepared to reset game 30 times.
4) Cannot invite players to lobby unless added as friend.
5) If you start queue as Quickplay, game will not function for you to switch to Rush or Clash. You will have to reset game to fix, vice versa for other way around.
6) Some Fortunes not being counted for no matter how many times you try to complete them (only a few i noticed)
— Probably other ones I am missing. Point to be made is, game becomes very frustrating to play, the game is losing its players. I literally have gone back to playing Paladins or Predecessor because at least those games are updated & the community thrives.
Save the fucking game so we can enjoy it the way it’s meant too. 😤

Just finished my interview today.
I feel good about it but I was a bit nervous when I was speaking. I only lost my train of thought once during one of the answers but other than that, I think I did alright.
Any feedback on my answers below is appreciated.

1. Why did you decide to apply for this apprenticeship?

At the beginning of this year I was unfortunately let go due to economic layoffs. I took this as an opportunity to think about what direction I wanted to take my life and to think about the things that I enjoy and am good at. I've always been one to do various work around the house and enjoyed fixing or building things. I ran into a member of the IBEW who let me know that applications were being accepted and after researching the day to day duties of an Inside Wiremen, I got excited because I felt like a couple of my hobbies shared similar principles. For example I recently got an Arduino board that I've been playing around with and learning about circuits and how various components impact the flow of current. Also, I have always enjoyed installing aftermarket car audio and figuring out the best way to route power through a cars firewall. Ultimately, I felt that this apprenticeship and the trade are a great fit for what I enjoy doing most so I decided to put in my application and have been excited going through the process so far.

1. Give us an example of a time you got into a confrontation with a coworker (question was something like this)

In my previous job a coworker was underperforming causing our team to miss quota. I tried to start a conversation with her to see what was going on at which point she became defensive, (I made a joke at this moment that nobody likes to be called out by their peers) I decided that I needed to change my approach to the conversation and instead I decided to try to start the conversation again but this time I started with areas of my own performance I felt that I could improve on. (This is where I lost my train of thought) Because of this she was not defensive and began to open up about things she's been unsure on and struggling with. We were then able to help each other improve and as a result our performance lead to our team hitting quota.

1. Give us an example of a time you had to do something but had very little instruction.

I recently started a position with a contracting house as a Cable Technician for (our local ISP). I arrived to trouble call where the customer stated they were having intermittent connectivity. I determined after using my meter that their aerial drop feeding their house was damaged as there was a lot of interference on the line. I had only ever seen an aerial done once and that was during ladder safety training a few weeks ago. I first attempted to contact my supervisor to get a few quick tips and brief refresher but he was unable to take my call. I remembered that Arris made a field guide so I pulled that up on my phone and found the clearance my line needs to have. 40 inches below energized cable at the pole 11 inches at the house. I felt confident enough to perform the task so I cut the cable at the house to release tension on the midspan and pole and then I cut at midspan, then removed at tap. In the opposite order I ran my drop from tap to midspan and then to the house where I was able to reconnect the customer's service and bring their modem back online.

1. Is there anything you would like to tell us that we may not have gathered from these questions?

My professional experience shows that I have a strong ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing situations and exceed the expectations of my superiors. I approach everything I do with a can do attitude and give everything I have each day. After a recent conversation with a friend who is going through the apprenticeship currently, I am beyond excited to get started and I am grateful for the opportunity and the time you've given me today.

Keir Starmer and his team are planning the most immoral and evil government in our country’s history. By refusing to engage in an emergency decarbonisation of the UK economy they will play their part in locking in the destruction of our civilisation over the coming two generations.
Imagine a massive block of concrete at the top of a high building - it is about to be dropped on an inescapable cage filled with our children. Labour's policy is to allow the people with the block of concrete (the economic elites) to drop it and shatter the bones of those kids. Imagine it. Not just this on one day, not just the following day, but every fucking day forever and ever - like some deathly Greek myth. This is Labour policy: the infliction of endless torture and pain. That is what you are voting for when you vote for the Labour Party - mass starvation, mass slaughter, mass rape. A Hothouse Holocaust. Forever.
This is what it means to allow the world to go over 2C - to create a billion refugees, to allow the arctic ice to melt - to destroy our ability to grow food, to allow the Atlantic current (AMOC) to collapse - to turn this country in a barren desert of ice, to allow sea level to rise - to destroy every coastal city, to create unbearable heat for everyone in the subtropics - to kill them in six hours, to melt every glacier and all the snow in the mountains - to deny billions access to fresh water. Then there is the Amazon, the methane, the ozone, the acidification…the list goes on and on and on and on and on.
Labour plans to have all this happen and for it to happen all at once. Don’t vote for them. Don’t repeat the terrible error of voting for the Nazis in 1933. 12 years later 10 million Germans were fleeing the Soviets, 2 million raped women, and the country was utterly devastated. Labour’s plan is for this to happen to you and your children. Except this time it goes on forever and ever and ever.
Don’t delude yourself by the fairytale that decent upright people cannot create such evil. Decent and upright people stood by while millions burned in the concentration camps. Decent and upright people ran the European colonial empires. Decent upright people owned and killed their slaves. Decent and upright people create Hell. Then and Now.
Instead, follow the facts - follow the reality -the science, and don’t blame the messenger. All I have said here is confirmed by 10,000 peer-reviewed papers. Emergency action is needed and Labour will not enact emergency action. These are the only two facts you need to know. Being upright and decent is irrelevant. Starmer will stand by. He will do nothing.
As it happens when the election was announced yesterday I was watching a clip from the greatest horror film of all time - Threads. Watch it on Youtube - watch the nine-minute clip: the bodies, the rubble, the blood, the faces, the shit, the tears, the end… of everything.
https://rogerhallam.com/f921c6b1?m=0ad267ba-5876-4ecc-8ca8-f995b12ed0be
This is what 2C means - what do you think 1 billion refugees (for starters) looks like? Get fucking real. Don’t insult yourself.
Then look in the mirror and say this:
“No way am I voting Labour”.
“I will stop being a slave to our executioners.”
Independents are standing to create system change - our only hope - vote for them. If you don't have that choice write on your ballot paper - “they do not represent us”. Then go home and prepare to do your duty to resist the greatest shitshow… ever.
If you read to this point, I wish you all the best. It’s the least I can do.
I've been speaking across the country over the last week on a new project, Assemble, which is going to use community assemblies to set up local candidates in the 2024 election. This is the democratic revolution in the making. Find out more at upcoming events in person or online. Donate to support us.

So next week I'll do my first 8 hour flight. This will be my first time leaving Europe, meaning I've never done flights longer then 2,5 hours. During these short flights I'm exteremely stressed. But, at least I can count down until landing, and comfort myself that it won't take long. Now it will be a different scenario. I'm really scared having a panick attack mid flight..
So, I'm looking for some tips on how to relax and also some facts about the flight to comfort me.
I will be flying from Brussel to JFK New York with Delta Airlines. The plane is a Boeing 767-300, and we will be flying economy.

Hi All! This is definitely a hot take and I'm aware in this specific subreddit it's a real unpopular opinion, but I wanted to share it anyway, and see what folks think.
So, season 4. The Gas Leak Year. In my genuine honest opinion, is fine. Maybe even decent. And absolutely deserves way more respect on it's name.
I binge watched the show over the course of 2 weeks about two months ago for the very first time, at the insistence of a friend. I recently finished my rewatch a couple days ago. I've rewatched my favorite episodes probably 4-5 times each now. So I'm definitely new to the fandom, I'm new to the show, relatively speaking. I didn't watch the show as it aired, I didn't have to wait with anticipation for a single episode. They were all available, all at once. I could not put the show down except to sleep or go to work. It was incredible. I can't believe I didn't watch it sooner. Community was genuinely life-changing TV to me.
Season 4 is really not that bad. I agree: It's really weak when you compare it to the three seasons that came before it. Watching Introduction to Finality (which I really enjoyed!) and then History 101 back to back was jarring. I immediately messaged said friend "wow, 3 minutes in and I can already feel the writing is OFF!" And it was. The whole show felt 'off' the entire season 4. There definitely good episodes, I really loved Conventions of Space and Time, definitely in my top 5 favorites (Maybe its because I went to a few Doctor Who Cons growing up). And there are definitely bad episodes, I didn't like Intro to Knots at all. It was a total bottle episode done badly, imo.
But as someone who absolutely loves shows like X Files, it's really strange to me seeing almost all of the fandom pretty much completely write off the 'bad' season. That isn't even that bad. Coming from a fandom like X Files, or even Doctor Who, I'm extremely familiar with arcs and even seasons in a row being... to be honest... straight up trash, and the amount of fans completely writing off those bad seasons is tiny. I think every X Files fan will tell you that yes, seasons 6, 8 and 9 are pretty terrible, and yes, you still need to watch them intently your first viewing anyway, they're still important. I think a lot of it comes from the guy that Dan Harmon as a creator is, and I think it's really awesome to have a createshowrunner who isn't the worst writer of all time (Looking at you, Chris Carter)
I think Dan himself said it best about what the show was trying to do "Its pizza, meaning, Bad slice? Good slice? Like, [Nasal voice.] Ehh, pizzas good food. We make pizza." Yeah, season 4 was a Safeway pizza that was still frozen in a few spots. But it still tasted good. It wasn't trying to be an experimental dish like X Files that went crazy with the flavor and texture profiles to the point it looked unappetizing. It was just underwhelming pizza. Why are we treating the cold pizza worse than I see people treat the X Files Revival kale salad????
It makes me sad as a fan to see folks acting to vitriolic towards something so mildly offensive as crappy season of their favorite show. It's not "NOT CANON!! >:(" it's just that the network subbed in bad writers and a few bad directors. I still think the cast was amazing, I think the sets and costumes in season 4 were fun, especially the Dean's hunger games dress! Idk. I guess this was just a long-winded way to say I wish folks weren't so hard on season 4! It doesn't deserve it! Especially when compared to a lot of other awful TV out there!

A common argument point in my family is the thermostat and the temperature inside the house. I recently learned that many households keep their thermostat set around 65-69 during the summer time. In my house, it is constantly set to 76. We get yelled at if it gets turned any lower than that. My dad spends most of his day in the basement, aka his "man cave" where the vents are on the ceiling. There are only 2 vents in the whole basement, one in the main room, one in the room off to the side. However, because the vents are on the ceiling, it gets cooler down there quicker. So, when he gets cold, he will come upstairs and turn the a/c off. Not up, not to auto. All the way off. He won't get a sweater or a blanket or a beanie, or even just point the vent away from himself. The rest of us upstairs get to suffer because his poor head is cold. Meanwhile, my siblings and I have medical related temperature issues which are valid reasons to want the thermostat to be on, even if its just to not overheat. As I'm typing this, it is 84 degrees Fahrenheit outside and 82 inside the house. I can't do anything because it seems that he's turned the entire unit off from the source, or something. I asked him about it earlier today and he said that he was tired of waking up to being too cold "because someone set the thermostat to 40 degrees" and all of the sudden the thermostat doesn't work at all. Nobody ever turns it that low, I'm not even sure if it can go that low. It's just blowing cold air until it reaches 76 degrees inside. I told him that I am tired of not being able to sleep because it's too hot. He then told me that because I have a curtain on my door (door isn't usable so I use a curtain for privacy) my room isn't circulating air properly and that is why it's so hot in here. I have 2 fans in my room, and the curtain doesn't even close all the way, it's jarred on the corner on the right side due to a barrier being there so my dog doesn't go in there while I am away. Right now, the fans aren't even doing much of anything because they are just moving hot air around. I am miserable and suffering during the day, and restless and sweaty during the night. I'm beginning my summer session of college courses in a week, I really can't afford to be losing this sleep and it's really upsetting me and stressing me out.

My 31st birthday is next week and this morning on my way to work (of course) he’s promised to divorce. Thank you everyone for your comments, I just admit I keep deleting them in fear of him finding them but I really don’t care anymore. I’ve contacted a DV worker and will have a phone call today for a risk assessment. They will also help me navigate through with resources since we also have a 2 year old.
Edit: for background he’s extremely verbally abusive.

The doctors aren’t sure yet what’s wrong with me, I think it’s my gallbladder (upper middle of abdomen), sometimes chills, sometimes nausea, sometimes pain in my right shoulder. Lab work normal other then elevated Eosinophils, higher now then they were 2 weeks ago, but elevated both times…got those results 2 days ago, waiting to hear from my doctor. Ultrasound tomorrow. Consult for endoscopy in 2 weeks. Had a CT scan and no gallstones seen, I just really feel like its my gallbladder and the random attacks of pain seem to fit…mostly just venting but wondering if others have had similar experiences/what the outcome was in the absence of stones.

i was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2018. fortunately, my diagnosis came after only 5 years of pain and massive blood loss, but was unfortunately proceeded by medically induced menopause and surgery. i was first seen by gyno at 13 when an ovarian cyst was misdiagnosed as a tumor (they even jumped the gun and told acne ridden, pubescent me it was cancer). since it was only 3cm in diameter and caused muscle spasms that could be medicated, i was assured my cyst was no issue and would resolve. it did not. three days after the diagnosis my cyst ruptured in the shower, causing me to enter physical shock (lost vision and control of my legs) and had to be hospitalized the next day. while sitting in my hospital room, the drs explained they were wrong and should’ve removed the cyst, saving me the mental and physical trauma of a rupture.
fast forward to two weeks ago when i first experienced pain and bloating. after my surgery and lupron doses my condition has been managed, so the thought of a cyst didn’t even cross my mind. but upon a CT scan, an urgent care DR found a 2.5 cm cyst on my right ovary. in these past two weeks, i am unable properly to walk due to pain, urinate unless i drink water to the point i pee on myself, and sleep is a futile effort. i explained what happened to the doctors to them brushing me off, saying cysts are a normal part of ovulation (i don’t ovulate) and to take tylenol. i have an appointment with a gyno tuesday but expect to hear much of the same. what do i do? i don’t want surgery but im scared if i have another rupture ill seize, and am now just laying in bed all day. it seems no matter what i say no one hears me. any advice?

I just scheduled my NCE exam and will be getting ready to study and prep for it. I already have the purple book. I was wondering what else would be good to know leading up to the exam? I am taking it online and not at in person.
I am taking the exam mid-August. I was gonna pick a date closer like end of July, but I panicked and thought that more time was better. I will probably not start studying in any way until about the week of June 3rd due to upcoming Vacations and events, leaving me with 2 and a half months to study.
I also work full time, so my study schedule will be working around that.
Any and all comments are appreciated!

So I’m a 17yr old M and I’ve had redness in the last year. I started of with 2% ketoderm cream with 0.75 hydrocortisone but i didn’t see a result within a week.( I didn’t know it took 3-4) so I stopped, went to a public doctor, and he prescribed brinodine Onreltea. Used it for 5 days, and got these randoms super hot flushes. I’m 14 days off the cream and my baseline isn’t to bad, but I flush really easily tomato red. It’s hard at school and I’m scared that it DOESNT GO AWAY😭.
I could use some reassurance and someone tell me how long I’m gonna have this?
ALSO, can someone tell me if I’m using something that could worsen?
PM: Sulfur soap(cleanse) ketoderm cream ( I started back because I most likely have Seb dermatitis but who knows at this point that’s what the derma said) And then cerave moisturizer
AM: Sulfur soap, cerave moisturizer
What can I change?? What could make it worse or better? My parents and the derma told me to stick with the ketoderm prescription and the Sulfur soap but I’m scared that I’m ruining my recovery… can someone reassure me???
PS: also do u think I’m gonna need Vbeam because I do see broken capillaries but I’m scared to aggravate