Forget Blackheads......

A LOT of people on here talk about starting thier acne experience with blackheads etc.....

For me its funny cause my acne sorta progressed backwards in the sense that ---->

When I was 14-15 I got cystic acne... not that cystic, and like one per month....

Then I started getting oily..... whiteheads......



Now to the Blackhead point...

I don't get blackheads but rather if I dont was my face I get TINY whiteheads all over my nose...
The places where people get blackheads.. (and btw... blackheads arent even that nasty) I get TINY whiteheads all over my nose...

Anyone else got the same thing?

Wierd Tense Feeling....

Didn't know where else to put this...
I think I have developed this wierd thing on the right side of my face... which is also where I get the most acne....and I don't understand why..
Let me explain...
Whenever I get like anxious that something is coming up or that I have to do something or that my friend says something that really gets on my nerves( I care a lot about everything) and sometimes I cant really understand why it happens... but like I am a very tense person as it is... like I remember going to the doctor and the doctor would tell me to relax my muscle so he could like test reflexes and stuff.. but I could never do it... im also very uptight..well here is the problem.... the left side of my face(cheekbone area).. like the jaw... gets all tense..... like its really hard to explain....like it bothers me A LOT..... I mean its so hard to explain... but its awful.... like the entire right cheek area of my face feels HARD internally... and I feel it on my skin.. iono its so wierd... and it only happens on the right side of my face.... and sometimes to relieve it I crack my jaw kinda... like where the jaw meets the ear... I pop/crack that sometimes to relieve pressure... but it works for like 1 minute at most..... And writing this has helped me become more familiar with it.... like Its a pressure feeling on my cheek/bone on the right side of my face(sorry for all the redundancy). I have had this feeling halfway yesterday and all day today and its honestly so annoying and like... uh its awful... when I talk to people it goes away.. but when Im alone and not talking it comes back... Now I don't have this every day.. but it happens occasionally and I can't stop it... sometimes I wake up forgetting about it so its gone... and sometimes its still there.. its like a pressure pocket forms or something iono really wierd... (Sorry for all the stupid .. and stuff)

Has anyone ever felt this or might know how to solve this problem? If it continues I will go and see the doctor about it I think.... not currently insured so I gotta take care of that 2...
Any help is appreciated.

Cry for Help

There just has to be a way for me, at 18 year old male... to stop/slowdown the oil being produced in my T-Zone its beyond rediculous. No I am not going to cut out wheat,etc, and all this crap that I can't do b/c I live alone so I eat what I can find... even though I do stay on the healthy side..... Isn't there ANYTHING I can take (besides B5, killed my hair, worked great tho), that can stop the oil... Geezz... f**ken 2008 and we can't stop oil, are you kidding me? Oh and I am not as naive as to believe that the oil is produced for no reason.... I am very informed on hormones hence why i take Saw Palmetto and DIM... has been almost 2 weeks with no results AT ALL...... I am so desperate its not even funny.. I still take b5 sometimes which is pathetic because its literally turning me bald...... I am not looking for a cream/ cleaners/ moisturizer etc... We gotta figure out something you can take internally to slow the androgens, dht, or all this hormonal stuff that is simply making every single day a huge embarrassment. And yes ofc I have acne...how couldn't I -_-. I could like literally notice with the span of 1-2 hours... how a whitehead just sits and grows, I feel like the whitehead literally eats the sebum and just grown and grows...

Anyone know of any supplements that could help me?

Oh and btw, whats up with the dermatologists??? Do they like making money without helping??? I mean from the ones i've been 2 all they do is prescribe either antibiotics to be taken orally or topically... and sometimes accutane... I wish they would actually check out this forum... it would rearrange their bouquet

Simple Question

HOW THE F*******CK CAN I STOP MY SKIN FROM PRODUCING SO MUCH DAMN OIL ON MY T-FU*****KEN ZONE.


Tried b5, works great, but stopped due to hairloss

Currently trying saw palmetto with DIM with not much results......
Zinc also is not helping that much with oil.. if at all... but it helps with other stuff..
ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS!?!?!?!?!?! >.<
I even resorted recently to washing my face with only water for most of the time cause my skin is so irritated >.<


HELP SOMEONE!!!!

Need Acne Advice( People with Accutane I have a question for you)

Want to start off by saying that I am new to this forum in terms of signing up but I have read many topics this year.(SORRY FOR LONG POST)( NEED HELP AND ADVICE)
Age: 18
Sex:M
Had Moderate acne for the last 3 years now

Alright Type of Acne( I feel like no one else in the world has this >.<)
I get like whiteheads like maybe once a day
INCREDIBLY OILY T-ZONE. I THINK I HAVE THE MOST OILY FACE IN THE WORLD IM NOT JOKING.( However after every time I wash my face around my mouth, chin, and cheeks get a bit dry.... but my T-ZONE DOESNT STOP AT ANYTHING) I sometimes put vaseline around my mouth and a bit on my chin, but I am honestly not a fan of lotion/moisturizers.
All my friends think I am a freak by the amount of oil I produce. I think I even might be the next source for fuel.
Anyways...... my acne forms just about anywhere on my face but almost never on my forehead which is surprising since its SO OILY!!!!. I swear my nose and my forehead ARE SO DAMN OILY I just can't say it enough.
To Sum It up:
Incredibly Oily T-Zone
Occasional Whiteheads(prominent areas- jawline/chin, sometimes near mouth, cheek)(whiteheads aren't that big but sometimes can get cystic(rare))
No Blackheads
Face Tone is pretty bad


Now I have starting using Dan's Regiment a couple weeks ago and its decent.... I used proactive for a while but the whole toner idea was awful. I hated having to spread that juice on my face...bad friction...

Well let me start my history on products...
Tried basically everything except accutane....
Was hard enough to have parents that let me go on minocyl(..) which didn't do much, even after long term use of almost a year.100mg

Now I am the kind of person that cares a lot about his appearance and my self esteem has gotten pretty low. And when I say this I mean for the last 2 years.... I have a hard time looking people straight in the eyes not so much b/c of the actual zits but b/c of the oil and uneven skin tone.

What I do now a days is just wash my face in the morning with nothing just water.... afternoon this cleaner with all these vitamins... its a natural cleaner... then a honey mask.... and at night dan's regiment.

My history with vitamins( this is where I need help, but not limited to... I need help for whatever I can get lol?? if that made sense?)

Started the adventure with Vitamin B5.
when I started I thought I was a miracle. My friends thought I went on accutane cause they couldn't believe how clear my face was and how beautiful my skin tone was. At that point I was taking about 5 grams a day if I remember properly. My skin was still sorta oily but the oil was much finer and thinner and easier to deal with. (btw I was taking it all with multivitamins)

The problem that arose: My hair was getting killed... I mean I had BIG THICK NICE HAIR and it went dead. I lost a good amount of hair, slower hair growth, thinner hair,etc etc. Therefore I decided to slow down the dosage to 1-2g... which still messed up my hair..... but did a decent job in keeping me clear.....This summer came along and I was taking about 1g a day in italy for about a month and I was decently satisfied.....


When I came back to the US my acne has gone worse but I don't want to take b5 b/c its killing my hair..........

THIS IS MY REAL CONCERN question to people who have taken accutane.
For the past month I have begun taking.
1g- b5 (to keep my oil SOMEWHAT BIG SOMEWHAT in check)
50mg of Zinc ( the multivitamins have zinc too but I feel like it does nothing when its together in the multi)
Now it gets interesting,
I also started taking about 80,000UI of vitamin A to try and reenact Accutane somewhat. (Please refrain from leaving posts saying accutane and vit A are not the same thing, I know that).
Ever since I started this I have broken out like never before... but it's not that severe. I can be strong and go through breakouts but my biggest concern and what I dont understand is that although my face is getting a little drier, my T-zone is still a mess producing oil at free will, hence why I have to take b5 or I'll literally kill myself from the amount of oil being produced. ( Should I keep taking the Vit A or what??o.0... Plus I exaggerated.. the Ib and the current breakouts I currently have aren't THAT bad... but when I was on b5 I rarely got more than 2 pimples a week.... and they were small sorta... now its like 3-4 at a time, whiteheads).

This post is ridiculously long and probably filled with typos and grammar issues. If anyone could read this and help me in some way I would appreciate it more than they could believe. I left a lot out... but let me just say this: My acne (in terms of zit count and cysts) isn't all that bad but its the oil and skin tone that just kills me... it makes the few whiteheads that I have look all nasty and oily .....
Oh and I haven't shaved in over a month... >.< because of my fuken acne... I'm a scardy cat when it comes to touching my face... you could imagine how scared I am of shaving......Oh well... I am waiting for me to get clearer so that I can trim lol, I can't even shave tbh but I don't feel like mowing down whiteheads.
Alright feeels good to have this out in the open.
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME, and people who are experienced with accutane wtf is going on with the vitamin A? if anything I think it has made my T-zone more oily....???? GAH
SORRY FOR LOST POST THAT PROBABLY BORED ALL OF YOU!!!!!!
HELP!!


P.s. I started getting HUGE whiteheads when I was 14 I mean huge and infectious whiteheads. At this point my face was as dry as a baby's butt, but my pimples were very infectious(I only got like once in a while though... I didn't care at all)( I was 14 and all I did was hang around and play a lot of sports... I barely even looked at my face .... oh... and interestingly when I was 14 I remember in the shower I would NEVER wash my face....something im considering doing again... o.0??). I mean I remember sometimes I would squeeze them and there would be pus everywhere... I know nasty.... Slowly that calmed down and my face started getting much and much more oily until 3 years later here I am. Oh and just for kicks, One day I got this HUGE GINORMOUS, GIGANTIC, BEASTLY, whitehead on the tip of my Nose. THIS THING WAS A beast!!! and I had to go around in school, high school with this HUGE THING ON MY NOSE.. It was like a volcano.... Man that was a bad week at school......... I literally couldn't walk with my face looking foward....and to make it worse... some idiots even made some comments about it....I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO GO ON A EUROTRIP for the last 2 years but because of my F&*(#^Q@&*#@^#*&^ ken Acne I havent been to travel with my friends or enjoy my summers in italy as much. I tried to not drink acohol b/c of acne but I did maybe once a month b/c I couldn't bare to see all my friends having fun and not me... I actually attribute acne to me not smoking a lot. believe it or not I have been smoking cigarettes on and off ever since I was 15 but always casually cause my face always comes first so I never got addicted. Like if my face was not clear I wouldn't dare to even be near smoke... unless I was drunk... then I couldnt help but to have a cigarette..!! I FEEEL LIKE I WASTED MY FREAKEN TEENAGE YEARS FREAKEN ACNE SUCKS


P.S number 2
I had bad chiken pox when I was young that left a decent amount of scars which really suck... its nothing that big but I have a few "holes" in my face that I don't really mind b/c it always gave me a differnet interesting look, but now with oily skin it dilates the wholes and just makes my skin tone look all nasty and filthy. I have a friend in LA who took accutane with great results but his hair is suffering. I also have a friend in Brazil that came to vist me that took accutane and he told me that in Brazil A LOT of the teenagers take accutane... I mean like if anyone has acne there, boom they hand them accutane... which was very interesting to hear....Im a bit scared of taking accutane myself, besides the fact that my parents wouldnt never let me start it...


P.S. Number 3
I AM CRAZY OVEROBBSESSIVE ABOUT MY ACNE. I can't play sports now b/c of it, or rather I don't because I sweat like a beast. I don't Wear sweaters b/c I don't like brushing my cheecks while putting it on. I only wear jackets... uhhh change pillow case once a week... uhh once again, don't like to sweat.. and I mean that... like if its hot outside I won't go out in the afternoon with my friends... cause I don't like sweating and not being able to wash my face... yeah im retarded >.<


As of today I am stopping the Vit A treament because after 3 weeks and no improvement, if anything more breakouts and skin more oily. As of right now I am just going to take Multivitamins, zinc, and 2grams of b5 even though it will hurt my hair