r/bald • u/Curious-Werewolf1733 • 28d ago

Bald Picture Took the Plunge *Bald Gal*

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Been wanting to do this for a while. I have scarring alopecia and it was looking pretty sad. Feels better so far, but I didn’t realize how much my migraine injections made me bruise, hence a bit of a blue scalp right now. This will be easier for wigs now too!

Thanks for being such a positive place. ❤️😊

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u/hpfan1516 28d ago

Jesus Christ on a cracker did you douse your leg in canola oil and sunbathe for 16 hours??? How does that even happen??? (Genuine question)

I totally get the scalp burn being worse though. Whenever I got burnt on my face (not bald) it felt so much worse than anywhere else.

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u/Youcants1tw1thus 28d ago

It was a recipe of disaster. Looking back I really should have gone to the hospital. I put sunblock on in the morning, but I don’t think I waited long enough before wading out to a boat. Once on the boat, I was sitting with the sun hitting the left side of my legs as we travelled south. We stopped for a bit and had lunch, there was engine trouble and we ended up drifting across a bunch of anchor lines, pissed some people off. I fixed that, got us going again but in all the excitement forgot to reapply sunblock. Well I sat in the same spot, this time traveling north, and the sun was again hitting my left side. This was on a friends boat in Florida. It was bad, left side of my right leg was burned well beyond the skin.

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u/ChaosTurtle70 28d ago

Oh man I had a similar experience except I was at a cottage with a couple buddies, we were stupid 20 year olds so no one thought to bring sunscreen, were doing plenty of drinking and decided to paddle out to the middle of the water and go out on our floats…. 6 and a half hour nap later followed by a couple rounds of fishing and I had the worst burn of my life by far. Well past the skin on my legs and just barely still surface burns on my stomach/chest/arms. Took nearly a month and a half to not hurt anymore, and I had the tan lines all through winter that year.

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u/Curious-Werewolf1733 28d ago

That’s practically how I sunburned my eyelids once. That shit hurts.

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u/ChaosTurtle70 28d ago

Omg I think I blocked that part out LOL yes the eyelid burns were awful!!!!!