Goings On
I spent a few hours at Juniper Valley Park today for Eevee Community Day/Weekend, spending as much time in the shade as possible to avoid roasting in the 88°F/31°C sun. I walked over 2 miles, which is better than I've been doing the last few days when the temperature has been over 90. I'm so ready for summer heat to be over, but the shortening days make me somewhat melancholy.
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My hair has been thinning for years, starting a year after my surgery for my Chiari-created brain compression, and no dermatologist has been able to figure out why. I have Chiari I malformation and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, I'm on a ton of medications, my thyroid is supposedly good at the level of Synthroid I'm on, I take 10,000 mg biotin and 100 mg keratin daily, who knows. However, I have finally found something that has made my scalp less visible and narrowed the part in my hair: OGX Thick & Full + Biotin & Collagen Shampoo and Conditioner. (Note that I didn't buy them at Amazon--I got them at Ulta--I'm just using the link so you can see them.) I've been using this set as my main for over a month; I find that my hair looks better if I don't exclusively use the same products every time. From what I can tell, the conditioner is the more important of the two.
They also seem to have prevented the rough spots in the right side of my hair I used to get from putting it up into a bun and alleviated some of my tendencies toward split ends.
There's an "extra volume" version of this set that I haven't tried because it includes "bamboo fiber extract," while I've had some bad, weird reactions to bamboo in the past. You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost.
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