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Wellness Wednesday for November 9, 2022

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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jock itch

Don't get it in the first place. It's really hard to get rid of permanently once it's established.

I got it first on my chest in a tiny little spot, mostly ignored the mild itching. Antifungals chased it away. Came back. I ignored it.

Got it in my asscrack couple years later. Didn't pay it much attention for some months until it started to seriously itch and my scratching it was remarked upon. Went to see a doctor then, finally.

Now antifungals will banish it for some time if used for couple of weeks, but it always comes back. Maybe not this time, switched up the medication.

I was amazed how little embarrassment I felt when showing my asshole to some seventyish old lady skin doctor for the second time.