@Negroany Thanks so much for the information - that's really helpful. As you say, £15 a month isn't bad at all compared to what I am spending currently on supplements, private blood tests and shampoos and conditioners.
I hope you feel better soon after the flu. You're very brave to start up the new drug with that still going on! I admire you!
I also used to have acne, then I developed rosacea. Now I use Soolantra ivermerticin and it works ever so well but it looks like I'll need it for life, even though you're not supposed to use it for that long. But the moment I stop using it, it comes back.
I'm not sure how I feel about skin and hair one versus the other. They both take their toll mentally on me although skin is very clear these days, thankfully. With acne and rosacea, eventually I got ontop of it and it felt like there were plenty of options out there and one would work in the end, which it did (retin-A for acne).
But with this hair loss thing, I can't see to find any solution so far.
I'm taking fish collagen and eating lots of chicken jelly from bones. I might even start to make big vats of it and eat it for breakfast or something.
My diet is very healthy, I've just started eating liver once a week. I couldn't be more healthy, eating the sodding rainbow and fatty fish and all the nuts and seeds and whole grains and pulses and yet still the hairs keep falling, like a tree in autumn, silently drifting down. It's really sad!
I understand that feeling of superficiality and I keep telling myself well, if I go bald, I'll buy a wig and life will go on and my hair doesn't define me sort of talk, but somehow it's hard to keep losing parts of yourself that you've known all your life as just who you are. Menopause is so rubbish. And i'm not even there yet. I dread to think what happens once I cross the line and my periods stop completely.