Acne on one side of the face

Once again I'm stuck with acne on one side of my face while the other is completely clear. Sometimes it's the left side that breakouts, sometimes the right one, sometimes a bit of both. But I find it strange how often I end up with a breakout on one side only.

Right now it's all on the right side of my face, while the left side is completely clear. It's like night and day. What gives?

I have had much less sleep for the past week before of renovations close to my house, and I've been feeling sick to the stomach since Sunday and it's like I have diarrhea (not really, but sort of, it just doesn't feel right). I noticed this actually happens to me often, I don't know why.

Not sure if it's related to my breakout on one side of my face or what, but there has to be a reason.

And it can't be my pillow case, I never really sleep on the same side constantly, and I change it often. Also I don't use a phone daily so that's not it.

The only thing I did differently was eat some salmon on Sunday, and again yesterday. But it's not like this is the cause of my usual breakouts, although it could have something to do with the stomach ache, I'm not sure.

Any ideas?

Testosterone levels spike 7 days after abstaining from masturbation

http://themodernsavage.com/2009/02/04/effe...tracting-women/



This makes perfect sense to me!

It explains why, when I would decide to stop masturbating for some time to see the impact on my acne, I would usually still break out within a week, usually 7 days later, but then my skin would clear up dramatically over the following week. I got the confirmation last week. For two weeks, I had stopped masturbating (where again I had a breakout a week after stopping, a Saturday evening). I was (and still am) on a gluten-free diet at the same time, so it was difficult for me to figure which of the two was or wasn't related.

Anyway, two weeks ago, on Wednesday June 24th I did masturbate after having stopped for over two weeks. I also masturbated the following Monday. My face continued to clear as it had dramatically done so over the previous week (either due to two weeks off masturbation, or because of no gluten, or both). Well exactly 7 days later, I got a huge breakout again, which really peaked Wednesday evening. It has kept up until tonight.

I haven't masturbated in a week now, this week, if this is true, my face will start clearing up again, as it has often done before when I stopped masturbating for two weeks. This is week two.

If I clear up, my next test will be to start consuming gluten again to see if it has an impact.

I give up

I'm through. Nothing works. This stuff isn't going away. Everyone has crazy regimens that are as phony as snake oil and it's not working for anyone yet people keep at it like those who believe horoscopes and scams of all sorts.

What a stupid life.

Pimples, hard bumps, some large, behind the ears, along the jaw line/neck

I've been getting pimples behind the lower part of my ear and along the neck and jaw line since late October 2008 (I've always had acne but usually not there). It never goes away completely, there's always more. Sometimes it's just some whiteheads, sometimes it becomes a large red spot (behind my ear lobe, not on the ear itself) that is hard, like almost the size of a dime.

It's like, you could draw a line that goes from behind my earlobe down along my jaw line where it connects to the neck. It happens on both sides, it's very consistent.

It sucks, it looks like I don't wash but I do (two showers a day, wash my face with products for it, etc.). So why does this persist? I thought it might be my razor blade since the pimples are where it's difficult to shave, but it doesn't explain why I would have them higher behind my ears and such.

I have quite oily skin, and it seems more oily around that area so that could be it, but I never wear big headphones or sleep on that part of my head or put any pressure there (I actually have the habit of sleeping with the top part of my head on the pillow, and that part where I have these pimples isn't in contact with anything).

Not sure what to do. It sucks cause other than that my acne has gotten less severe. Still there but it's worst at the neck now.

Last attempt to get rid of my acne. After that I'm through.

This is going to be my last attempt at stopping my acne.

I have had acne for 14 years or so, I'm 26, and I want this to be my last year with acne. I want at least those last three years to be acne free before I hit 30.

I tried everything, and I was down to two last potential culprits that I could do something about: masturbation and lack of sleep.

Well I haven't jerked off since last Wednesday, so it will be a week tomorrow. I had gotten good results in the past doing so, but it seems it was unrelated. My acne has always come and gone away every two weeks or so, never leaving me fully, except once around four years ago for almost a full year, like a short-lived miracle. It was never 100% gone, but enough so for me not to consider it an issue, which is saying something in my case.

So over the past week I have still been getting pimples daily. After a week of no masturbation I'm thinking this can effectively rule it out as being a significant culprit. It seems to have made the situation better, but it is not fixing the problem. The problem with masturbation is that it is usually frequent and lasts longer than normal sexual intercourse. So frequency + duration = hormonal freakout. I'm gonna keep that in control, no masturbation in the week, and if I do so it will be without porn which means I'll do that quickly and be done with;)

Anyway what is my last attempt? Getting regular sleep. I have always had trouble sleeping since as far as I can remember in my early teens. Just this Sunday I went to bed at 9:30, fell asleep because I took half a sleeping pill, but woke up at 10:45 and didn't fall asleep again till around 5 or 6 am if at all, and woke up at 8. Last night I must have fallen asleep at 3am and woke up at 8am (no sleeping pills, and I don't recommend them because they seem to make things worst in the long run).

When I cleared up for a year I remember I used to be in bed at 10:30pm or 11pm, and would fall asleep in around 30mins, and wake up at around 7am or 7:15 the next morning. I was getting regular full nights of sleep, and I wasn't jerking off at least during the week because I had no time (I was doing 12h shifts for months)

And I noticed that in the past, I healed the most significantly when on vacation, when I get full long nights of sleep.

Right now my problem is that my sleep schedule has been messed up, so starting now I'm going to be in bed at 10:30 or 11pm at the latest and will make this an habit, and I won't be in bed at later than 1:30 on Fridays or Saturdays.

I'll keep this thread updated. This is my last attempt ever at fixing this situation. If it doesn't work, well too bad, life goes on (or doesn't start:p).