Forced Myself to Work Out
8:39 PM
I did all of my workouts again today. It wasn't easy, but at the same time, I didn't have much else going on besides work, so I didn't really have any excuses not to work out today.
11:56 PM
My usual excuses for not working out would be something like it being tiring, or I am too tired, or it takes too much effort, or I can do them later (but then the day ends without me realizing it). I did all of the exercises today and they were sort of easy. In terms of physical difficulty, I would rate it a 3 out of 10, with 10 being the most difficult. It's not physically tiring to do these workouts, it is mentally tiring. In terms of mental strength needed to do the workouts, I would rate it an 8 out of 10.
I did a decent amount of work today too, and I completed all my other tasks.
There's been this guy on Reddit that has been messaging me about minoxidil aging. He's seen my posts on the topic, and he says he has experienced facial aging too, and sent me a few before and after photos. He definitely has them, and he says he has other issues as well, and that he's in a telegram group with hundreds of other people experiencing similar issues.
This was months ago when I ran into this issue. You can look back at my entries from prior months ago. I am not the only person who experienced it, and I found many other people online who posted before / after photos as well of them experiencing the same thing. I can post some examples here, there are many more, but here are some again:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/125z0rd/careful_when_taking_kirkland_liquid_minoxidil/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/z9mn8m/minoxidil_aging_202020212022_pics/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Minoxbeards/comments/lqi80y/facial_aging_from_minoxidil_a_warning/
- https://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/dark-circles-and-skin-degredation-on-minoxidil.110090/
- https://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/minoxidil-ruined-my-skin-loose-skin.131037/
- https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/64654-oral-minoxidil-at-6-months/#comment-658438
- https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/70791-oral-minoxidil-side-effects/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/blueprint_/comments/1kkjf6c/minoxidil_and_skin_issues/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/30PlusSkinCare/comments/1m54phv/has_aging_like_this_ever_happened_to_anyone/
The last person is someone I have spoken to, and you can view her post history as well. It's all due to minoxidil.
I believe I am fully recovered now, but who really knows? I look different still from prior to minoxidil. Better in some ways, worse in other ways. This was the most traumatic event of my life. I didn't socialize for months, and took thousands of selfies. Yes, thousands. My face looked worse than anything you can imagine, it's the same with the people listed in the links above. I can upload an example.
So I had to upload some random placeholder image first so that there isn't a jumpscare. The second photo is a before and after example. I looked like utter shit after minoxidil, again, same with the people in the above links. The next 3 photos are prior to minoxidil, the problem is that they are not selfies. I rarely took any selfies prior to minoxidil, now I take many a day. The last photo is a selfie prior to minoxidil as well, that I happened to find. The photos in-between are all from today/tonight, me sweating after working out, and some selfies I took just now, paranoid that I look like shit.
I've gotten a billion billion times more paranoid and anxious about my face after taking minoxidil. It went from something I didn't pay any attention to, to not caring about anything else.I still don't fully know if I recovered, because maybe I do look different from before, but I only have selfies to compare to. I feel like my skin quality is worse, but who knows.
There is also no one that can help or could help with this issue, because everyone is a gaslighter. Even my parents would tell me nothing was wrong with my face when I was at my worse, and they didn't help at all with figuring out any solutions. It took a lot of trial and error, hundreds of hours of desperate research and reading and attempts to recover, in order for me to get back to where I am today from my nightmarish position several months ago. I still don't know if I have fully recovered, but I feel like I have.
I'm not a great judge for my own appearance either. I think I look fine, but I have been rated a 3 or 4 in any of my selfies where I thought I looked fine, this includes prior to minoxidil. In the 3 photos of me prior to minoxidil, I've been rated 7+. I'm rated 7+ in a bunch of photos, but they are all photos taken by other people and from a slight distance. In any selfies, I am rated very lowly. So I don't know if I look fine or not, because even when I think I look fine, people rate me so low. My parents are gaslighters and say I look good in any photo.
Like I think I look good in my selfies, all my recent selfies, but who the heck knows.
Anyway, I hope that I have fully recovered, and that I will surpass my previous appearance soon. Once my pimples go away, I will probably microneedle a bit to get rid of the acne scars that formed. Maybe that will help improve my skin appearance too.
Anyway, that was my day today.
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